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Toby Karten guides readers as learners into the topic of disabilities and inclusion, presenting strategies and helpful tools. He seeks to demystify the field of special education for general education teachers by employing clear explanations, statistics, tips for working with parents, and much more.
Provides educators with details on the latest national mandates, including amendments to ADA and IDEIA, discussing response to intervention, and how to adapt teaching strategies and curriculum.
Use this facilitator's guide to help educators maximize the strengths of students in inclusive classrooms and meet curriculum standards for all learners while maintaining sound educational principles.
Provides research-based strategies for identifying and meeting the needs of students with disabilities, links best inclusive practices with content-specific curriculum, and helps educators fulfill IDEA 2004 requirements.
This reader-friendly guide describes adolescent development and provides strategies for creating an inclusive secondary classroom, including differentiation, brain-based learning, universal design, and more.
Inclusion is now a way of life for many students with disabilities in the 21st Century. Today¿s classroom teachers need help with the implementation of inclusion through practical lesson plan formats and organizational templates to address their diverse student populations and to differentiate instruction. This plan book is a comprehensive guide for "honoring" the inclusive classroom and includes weekly/quarterly lesson plan formats, assessment, monitoring, and record-keeping forms, effective inclusive strategies and much, much more! Ideal for: General Education Classroom Teachers Special Education Collaborating Teachers Co-Teaching Teams Packed with easy-to-use, teacher-friendly lesson plan formats that account for the special instructional needs, accommodations and modifications of students, including Response to Intervention (RTI) plans.
Lead workshops to help teachers connect best inclusive practices with standards! Based on the best-selling book More Inclusion Strategies That Work! this facilitator′s guide offers techniques for maximizing the strengths of all students in inclusive classrooms while meeting curriculum standards for all learners. Staff developers and workshop leaders will find specific tools to facilitate book study groups, seminars, and professional development events that increase teachers′ skills in using inclusion strategies on a daily basis to instruct students at differing cognitive, sensory, physical, behavioral, emotional, and social levels. This easy-to-use guidebook offers step-by-step instructions for leading focused discussions on: Applying inclusive strategies across the curriculum Using assessments that are sensitive to differences in students′ abilities Varying the complexity and pace of lessons while achieving learning objectives Maintaining sound educational principles The chapter-by-chapter study guide features: Workshop activities Discussion questions Suggestions for practical applications Chapter summaries Handouts and overheads Resources for extending learning Sample agendas for half-day, one-day, and two-day workshops A workshop evaluation form The Facilitator′s Guide to More Inclusion Strategies That Work! is ideal for staff developers or anyone leading professional training for groups of any size—pairs, small workshops, or large seminars.
'Success with Inclusion' provides over one thousand specific strategies to help identified areas of difficulty or advanced development. Teachers will be able to quickly identify and record their pupils' individual learning patterns, structure a well planned inclusive environment and implement creative and thoughtful learning interventions.
Use this facilitator's guide to help educators maximize the strengths of students in inclusive classrooms and meet curriculum standards for all learners while maintaining sound educational principles.
Keys to engaging secondary students Research shows that all students—regardless of learning style, disability category, or language difference—learn more effectively when they are engaged in active learning. This book shows teachers how to help all students achieve positive learning outcomes. The authors provide a compilation of strategies that serve as blueprints for instructional design and directions for using them across a variety of content areas. The many benefits of active learning include: A more engaged and interactive classroom Increased self-directed learning Development of higher-order thinking skills such as analysis, synthesis, evaluation Improved reading, discussion, and writing competencies
