Creating Inclusive Classrooms:Effective and Reflective Practices: United States Edition (myeducationlab (Access Codes)) - Softcover

Spencer, Salend

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137030746 ISBN 13: 9780137030743

Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

Creating an inclusive classroom means understanding federal legislation as well as national and state standards, but the practical and streamlined seventh edition of Creating Inclusive Classrooms: Effective and Reflective Practices recognizes that it means more than that. This text goes beyond the typical inclusion text, translating theory and research into practices you can use in your inclusive classroom by illustrating the principles of effective inclusion through classroom scenarios, online footage, and successful strategies. The text has the most current vision of today’s inclusive classroom, which truly helps you create a successful educational experience for all students.

 

New to This Edition:

NEW! UDL and You features throughout the text guide you in understanding and implementing the principles of universal design to help all learners access the general education curriculum and succeed in inclusive classrooms.

NEW! Up to date coverage of Response to Intervention (RtI) is introduced early in the text and picked up with specific classroom guidance in Chapter 12.

 Expanded and latest research on universal design for learning (UDL), autism spectrum disorders, co-teaching arrangements, instructional technology, differentiating instruction, Positive Behavioral Supports, student diversity and motivation, fostering students’ literacy and mathematics learning, research-based teaching strategies, assessing and grading students in inclusive classrooms, teaching and testing accommodations, building social relationshipsand implementing IEPs in inclusive classrooms.

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A former teacher in the New York City School System, Spencer J. Salend is a professor at SUNY-New Paltz, where he teaches courses on educational assessment and serves as the coordinator of the Special Education Program. He is the author of the best-selling, easy-to-read, and practical book, Creating Inclusive Classrooms: Effective and Reflective Practices. Widely known for his work in translating research into practice, he has published and presented on such topics as educational assessment, inclusive educational practices, and teaching students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. In recognition of the significance of his research and its benefits to others, he was selected as a recipient of the State University of New York s Faculty Scholar Award and the Chancellor s Research Recognition Award. He has also served as a project director and program evaluator for numerous federal and state projects and has shared his work by engaging in a variety of professional development and activities.

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Creating an inclusive classroom means understanding federal legislation as well as national and state standards, but the practical and streamlined seventh edition ofCreating Inclusive Classrooms: Effective and Reflective Practices recognizes that it means more than that.

It means being reflective about your own teaching so you can better differentiate instruction for ALL of your students.

It means collaborating with educators and families to create the most successful educational experience for ALL of your students.

More than anything it means taking into account the strengths and challenges of EACH student in today s diverse classroom, and implementing practical strategies that address disability as well as issues of gender, race, ethnicity, language, socioeconomic status, and family structure.

This text goes beyond the typical inclusion text, translating theory and research into practices you can use in your inclusive classroom by illustrating the principles of effective inclusion through classroom scenarios, online footage, and successful strategies.

Framework for Inclusive Practice

A framework of four principles of effective inclusion is built into each chapter, demonstrating that inclusion is not just a government mandate but a principled philosophy for reflective and effective teaching forall students.

• All learners and equal access
• Individual strengths and challenges and diversity
• Reflective practices and differentiated instruction
• Community and collaboration

All Learners Succeed

A focus on differentiation, diversity, collaboration, and effective inclusive practice gives you the guidance you need to create a successful inclusive classroom for ALL of your students.

• Four chapters on differentiated instruction provide you with more details and examples on this important subject than any other text in the market.
• NEW! UDL and You features throughout the text guide you in understanding and implementing the principles of universal design to helpall learners access the general education curriculum and succeed in inclusive classrooms.

Addressing Mandates and Regulations

• NEW! Up to date coverage of Response to Intervention (RtI) is introduced early in the text and picked up with specific classroom guidance in Chapter 12.
• IDEAs to Implement Inclusion features in every chapterapply effective techniques in the book that help you create inclusive classrooms that meet the challenges of the IDEA 2004.
• Standards Integration in every chapter summary demonstrates where chapter content aligns with CEC, PRAXIS, and INTASC professional standards.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0137030746
• ISBN 13: 9780137030743
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 599
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar