Facilitator's Guide to More Inclusion Strategies That Work!

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.

Demonstrate powerful inclusive strategies that nurture achievement potential in all students!

This essential guide to More Inclusion Strategies That Work!: Aligning Student Strengths With Standards provides staff developers with the tools for facilitating professional development workshops or study groups of any size. The author's standards-based approach focuses on the strengths of learners with disabilities to instill more confidence and ensure greater success when students are learning new concepts. Within a collegial learning atmosphere, teachers will be empowered by the activities to creatively translate the best inclusive practices into their own classrooms on a daily basis. This Facilitator's Guide includes:

• Chapter summaries
• Supplemental information for extended learning
• Discussion questions
• Activities for individuals or groups
• Journaling prompts
• Timed activities
• A workshop evaluation form

Toby J. Karten is an adjunct professor at the College of New Jersey, Gratz College in Pennsylvania, and Washington College in Maryland. Along with being a mentor and resource center teacher in New Jersey, Karten has designed a graduate course entitled "Skills and Strategies for Inclusion and disABILITY Awareness" and has trained other instructors to teach her course. Karten has presented at local, state, and international staff development workshops and conferences. She has been recognized by both the Council for Exceptional Children and the New Jersey Department of Education as an exemplary educator, receiving two "Teacher of the Year" awards. Karten has authored several books for Corwin Press about inclusion practices, including Inclusion Strategies That Work! and More Inclusion Strategies That Work!, as well as a series of activity books. An experienced educator who has worked in the field of special education since 1976, Karten believes that once we place the adjective "special" in front of the noun "education," every classroom student is a winner, receiving the best instructional strategies by a highly trained and prepared staff. She has an undergraduate degree in special education from Brooklyn College, a master of science in special education from the College of Staten Island, and a supervisory degree from Georgian Court University.