Creating Inclusive Classrooms
Creating Inclusive Classrooms

Author: Spencer J. Salend

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13:

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The fifth edition of "Creating Inclusive Classrooms: Effective and Reflective Practices for All Students" goes beyond the typical inclusion text in its reflective discussions on how to teach students with varying (earning abilities. This text contains a(( of the core information that an inclusion text requires and then takes the reader to a higher (eve( by including issues of gender, race, ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, and family structures. Features of the fifth edition include: Principles of effective inclusion as a framework for the text. The following principles are integrated into each chapter and demonstrate that inclusion is not just a government mandate, but a principled philosophy for reflective and effective teaching "for all students: " all learners and equal access; individual strengths and needs; reflective practices and differentiated instruction; and community and collaboration. "Classroom-based examples and case studies of teachers implementing effective inclusive educational practices." These examples and cases are integrated throughout the chapter narrative and with the CD-ROM that accompanies the text. "Inclusive Classrooms: Video Cases on CD-ROM." This new CD-ROM provides access to living classroom examples of teaching and learning strategies for inclusion. Each video case (4 cases) depicts scenarios that clearly show the impact of inclusion on supporting students with challenging behaviors (preschool), classroom climate (elementary), assessment and planning (middle), and partial participation and cooperative (earning (secondary). "Using Technology to PromoteInclusion." A new feature that uses a variety of formats to present issues, strategies, and resources for using technology to help students gain access to and succeed in inclusive classrooms. "The integration of CEC, PRAXIS, and INTASC professional standards." Each chapter summary demonstrates where chapter content aligns with these standards.

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.

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.

The Knowledge Gap
The Knowledge Gap

Author: Natalie Wexler

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-08-04

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0735213569

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The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.

The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners
The Global Education Toolkit for Elementary Learners

Author: Homa Sabet Tavangar

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2014-02-12

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1483317889

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Integrate global learning activities in your elementary classrooms today with this easy-to-use guide! The world is more interrelated today than ever before. This smart, all-in-one resource from widely acclaimed authors Homa Tavangar and Becky Morales helps busy, budget-conscious educators give younger students the global edge. You’ll find hundreds of easy, stand-alone activities, resources, and projects to: Seamlessly integrate your existing K–5 Common Core curriculum with fun, interactive global awareness themes and activities Effectively recruit more parent and community volunteers and organizations Securely and productively use social media for student global collaboration projects Confidently infuse fresh ideas and best practices into your international events Plan after-school global awareness clubs, foreign language programs, and cross-curricular activities This book includes a handy 12-month timeline, backmapping tips, a checklist of 50+ ready-to-start projects and activities, and invaluable links to online global education sites, as well as the author’s site that includes tools, templates, references, and much more. Bring the world into your classroom the easy, practical way with this ready-to-use guide!

Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education
Promoting Inclusive Classroom Dynamics in Higher Education

Author: Kathryn C. Oleson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-07-03

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1000978028

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This powerful, practical resource helps faculty create an inclusive dynamic in their classrooms, so that all students are set up to succeed. Grounded in research and theory (including educational psychology, scholarship of teaching and learning, intergroup dialogue, and social justice theory), this book provides practical solutions to help faculty create an inclusive learning environment in which all students can thrive. Each chapter focuses on palpable ideas and adaptive strategies to use right away when teaching. The first chapter consider professors’ intersecting personal and social identities and their expectations for themselves and their students. Chapter 2 considers students’ backgrounds, including class, race, disability, and gender, and focuses on what students bring to the classroom, exploring their basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and belonging; their approaches to learning; and their self-doubts and uncertainties. Chapter 3 draws on universally-designed learning in combination with educational design rooted in social justice and multiculturalism to describe ways to design spaces in which students flourish academically. Two chapters focus on classroom dynamics. Chapter 4 primarily focuses on preparation for having difficult conversations in the classroom, considering how instructors can create a shared understanding between themselves and their students. Chapter 5 focuses on in-the-moment strategies to both create and manage discomfort about sensitive and controversial topics while supporting students of various social identities (such as gender, race, disability). In the closing chapter, the author integrates all the elements in the preceding chapters, and also presents more general college-wide programs to help faculty develop and improve their teaching.

Inclusion Strategies and Interventions
Inclusion Strategies and Interventions

Author: Toby J. Karten

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1935543725

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Inclusion means more than just preparing students to pass standardized tests and increasing academic levels. In inclusive classrooms, students with special educational needs are treated as integral members of the general education environment. Gain strategies to offer the academic, social, emotional, and behavioral benefits that allow all students to achieve their highest potential.

Small Teaching Online
Small Teaching Online

Author: Flower Darby

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1119544947

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Find out how to apply learning science in online classes The concept of small teaching is simple: small and strategic changes have enormous power to improve student learning. Instructors face unique and specific challenges when teaching an online course. This book offers small teaching strategies that will positively impact the online classroom. This book outlines practical and feasible applications of theoretical principles to help your online students learn. It includes current best practices around educational technologies, strategies to build community and collaboration, and minor changes you can make in your online teaching practice, small but impactful adjustments that result in significant learning gains. Explains how you can support your online students Helps your students find success in this non-traditional learning environment Covers online and blended learning Addresses specific challenges that online instructors face in higher education Small Teaching Online presents research-based teaching techniques from an online instructional design expert and the bestselling author of Small Teaching.

Widening the Circle
Widening the Circle

Author: Mara Sapon-Shevin

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2007-03-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0807032816

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Widening the Circle is a passionate, even radical argument for creating school and classroom environments where all kids, including children labeled as “disabled” and “special needs,” are welcome on equal terms. In opposition to traditional models of special education, where teachers decide when a child is deemed “ready to compete” in “mainstream” classes, Mara Sapon-Shevin articulates a vision of full inclusion as a practical and moral goal. Inclusion, she argues, begins not with the assumption that students have to earn their way into the classroom with their behavior or skills, it begins with the right of every child to be in the mainstream of education, perhaps with modifications, adaptations, and support. Full inclusion requires teachers to think about all aspects of their classrooms—pedagogy, curriculum, and classroom climate. Crucially, Sapon-Shevin takes on arguments against full inclusion in a section of straight-talking answers to common questions. She agrees with critics that the rhetoric of inclusion has been used to justify eliminating services and “dumping” students with significant educational needs unceremoniously back into the mainstream with little or no support. If full inclusion is properly implemented, however, she argues, it not only clearly benefits those traditionally excluded but enhances the educations and lives of those considered mainstream in myriad ways. Through powerful storytelling and argument, Sapon-Shevin lays out the moral and educational case for not separating kids on the basis of difference.

How to Create the Inclusive Classroom
How to Create the Inclusive Classroom

Author: Rita Cheminais

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 1136779876

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Hot on the heels of the Government's new SEN strategy, this book's at-a- glance' format provides practitioners with a handy self-help resource. This book will help you to: create a learner-friendly barrier-free classroom using checklists to monitor inclusive practice understanding the impact on classroom practice of recent legislation following power point slides detailing government standards and guidance clarify the roles and expectations of pupils, parents, SENCOs, INCOs, teachers and school leaders