Teaching in Today's Inclusive Classrooms: A Universal Design for Learning Approach - Softcover

Metcalf, Debbie; Gargiulo, Richard M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1305500997 ISBN 13: 9781305500990

Verlag: Cengage Learning, Inc, 2016

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TEACHING IN TODAY'S INCLUSIVE CLASSROOMS: A UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING APPROACH, 3rd Edition is a concise, accessible, and current text for the Introduction to Inclusive Teaching course. It is the only inclusion textbook available with a consistent, integrated emphasis on Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?an important, contemporary educational philosophy focused on using strategies and tools to help ALL students by accommodating their differences. Aligned with InTASC and CEC standards, this text also provides foundational information about children with disabilities who are included in today's classrooms, and the most effective strategies for teaching them alongside their typically developing peers. Featuring new material on Common Core State Standards, case studies, and sound research-based teaching and learning strategies, this hands-on text offers you a practical, flexible framework for effective instruction, classroom management, assessment, and collaboration in today's diverse classrooms.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Richard M. Gargiulo is Professor Emeritus of special education in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to receiving his Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he taught fourth graders and young children with intellectual disability in the Milwaukee Public Schools. Upon receiving his doctorate, he joined the faculty of Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where he taught for over eight years. A teacher educator at UAB for more than three decades, Dr. Gargiulo is a frequent contributor to the professional literature and has authored or co-authored 100-plus publications, including 20 textbooks. In addition to serving as the first Fulbright Scholar in special education assigned to the former Czechoslovakia, he was twice elected as president of the Alabama Federation of the Council for Exceptional Children and is a former president of the CEC Division of International Special Education and Services as well as a past president of the CEC Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Teaching, however, has always been Dr. Gargiulo's passion. In 1999 he received UAB's President's Award for Excellence in Teaching. In 2007 the Alabama Federation of the CEC honored him with the Jasper Harvey Award in recognition of being named the outstanding special education teacher educator in the state.

Debbie Metcalf has worked in partnership with Pitt County Schools and East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, as a special educator and intervention specialist for Pitt County Schools. She has served as teacher-in-residence in the department of curriculum and instruction at East Carolina University for over 20 years. Currently, she teaches methods courses and works in the classroom with undergraduate preservice teachers and graduate students seeking alternative teacher certification. Metcalf holds a Master of Arts in Education degree from San Diego State University and is certified in both general and special education, including assistive technology. She became a National Board Certified Teacher in 1997. In 2004, she received the Clarissa Hug Teacher of the Year Award from the International Council for Exceptional Children. She serves on the Council for Exceptional Children board of directors and is active in the Division of International Special Education and Services. For more than three decades, Metcalf has taught students of all ages in California, New Mexico, Hawaii, Michigan and North Carolina. She continues to mentor new teachers and has frequently led staff development sessions. Her primary research areas include access to the general curriculum for students with exceptionalities, collaborative teaching models, alternate assessment models for diverse learners, curriculum design and revision, service learning and international partnerships.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cengage Learning, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1305500997
• ISBN 13: 9781305500990
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 528
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cengage Learning; https://www.cengageasia.com/; ; 5191 Natorp Blvd; Mason; OH; 45040; USA
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