Creating an Inclusive School
Creating an Inclusive School

Author: Richard A. Villa

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1416600493

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In this comprehensive resource on inclusive schooling, administrators, general and special educators, and parents explore how inclusive education can support a diverse student body at all grade levels. They show how schools can meet standards and provide a "least restrictive environment" for students with disabilities by using cooperative learning, teaming, multi-age grouping, multicultural education, social skills training, and educational technology applications. And they explain how to facilitate change by using universal design principles and other curricular, instructional, assessment, and organizational practices. The authors examine the prevailing myths and the most frequently asked questions about inclusive education, and they provide an extensive list of resources. Woven through the book are the personal stories of people with disabilities and the educators and parents who work with them. As their voices make clear, inclusion is more than an educational buzzword; inclusion is a way of life, based on the belief that each individual is valued and belongs.

Developing Inclusive Teacher Education
Developing Inclusive Teacher Education

Author: Tony Booth

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780415303170

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Inclusion has been adopted as an overall aim for compulsory education in most countries.This book explores the way teachers are prepared for inclusion in their initial and in-service teacher education.

Understanding the Development of Inclusive Schools
Understanding the Development of Inclusive Schools

Author: Mel Ainscow

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 113571178X

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The current emphasis on individualised intervention programmes for students with special needs may not only be impractical, but also undesirable. This book compares and contrasts special needs approaches with school effectiveness strategies. The author sets out theories about inclusive schooling that arise out of a detailed scrutiny of practice. The link between theory and practice will be welcomed by many practitioners. With extensive examples from the field to illustrate Ainscow's ideas, this is an eminently accessible text.

Collaboration for Inclusive Education
Collaboration for Inclusive Education

Author: Chriss Walther-Thomas

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13:

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This book is designed to teach preservice and advanced education professionals how to work with others to develop successful inclusive education programs for students with unique learning needs. The content, examples, and related skill-building activities enable readers to develop the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to serve as leaders in this effort. In addition to successful collaboration, careful consideration has been given to other important issues related to program development such as staffing, instructional planning, ongoing classroom support, and IEP development. Issues addressed at the district, school, and classroom levels. KEY FEATURES: An emphasis on essential program features required for lasting success in inclusive education. Careful consideration of the change process as schools attempt to modify their traditional support service delivery options. Strategies to facilitate school-home teamwork in the development student IEPs based on collaborative service delivery structures. This book is appropriate for educators with a wide variety of professional roles and leadership responsibilities including general educators, special educators, education specialists, administrators, and related services providers such as school psychologists, counselors, speech and language pathologists, occupational and physical therapists, and English-as-Second-Language (ESL), reading, and gifted education specialists. In addition, it is designed for use in staff development efforts and as a personal reference for practicing professionals.

Inclusive Schools in Action
Inclusive Schools in Action

Author: James McLeskey

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 0871203898

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For any school undertaking an inclusion program, here's an opportunity to find out what works and explore a 10-step plan that can achieve positive academic and social outcomes for all students -- with and without disabilities.

Children, Families and Schools
Children, Families and Schools

Author: Sally Beveridge

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780415279338

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This book is concerned with home-school relations from an 'inclusive' perspective, in that it addresses questions common to all schools, but with an emphasis on children with special needs.

Inclusion in Action
Inclusion in Action

Author: Nicole Eredics

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781681252247

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To create truly inclusive school and classroom environments, educators must be prepared to include all students--including students with intellectual disabilities, who are not always given the opportunity to be full participants in the classroom. This book provides an overview of the history of inclusion, the philosophy underlying inclusion, and the role that curriculum accommodations and modifications play in making inclusion possible. The author discusses four ways to modify curriculum for students working well below grade level: altering content, conceptual difficulty, educational goals, or instructional methods. She then provides 40 curriculum modification strategies, based on Robert Marzano's New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, with directions for implementation and samples of student work.

The Inclusive School
The Inclusive School

Author: Judy W. Kugelmass

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2004-11-08

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780807744918

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How do schools sustain a collaborative, inclusive culture in these times of high-stakes testing and standardization? Through the story of a progressively minded public elementary school, the author shows how committed educators can collaborate to maintain a creative, inclusive educational environment and still rise to the demands of state-imposed standards. This timely volume explores the evolution of a school in chaos to a highly regarded school serving a diverse student population.

Confronting Obstacles to Inclusion
Confronting Obstacles to Inclusion

Author: Richard Rose

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-08

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 113693670X

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Confronting Obstacles to Inclusion uniquely and comprehensively addresses interpretations of inclusive education by drawing upon the experiences and expertise of leading writers and academics who have direct experience of teaching and researching this area around the world. This landmark publication combines theoretical chapters with practical material demonstrating how the theories can be put in to action in the classroom. The contributors, who all have regular contact with pupils and teachers in inclusive settings, provide a broad spectrum of ideas, examine a number of key themes and interpret these in an international context, such as: the causes of exclusion, the obstacles to inclusion and how these can be overcome supporting families how we can learn from students professional development enhancing teaching and learning support in the classroom. This authoritative text will be of immense interest and use to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and campaigners who are working towards a more equitable and inclusive society. Through a synthesis of theory and practice the book offers readers an opportunity to explore local, national and international perspectives and raises questions with regards to our current understanding of inclusion. Whilst the interrogation of the concept of inclusion is, in itself important, the book provides examples of professional approaches to the key questions which are currently challenging the education of a diverse range of learners.