Practical Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom

Focusing on quality classroom instruction, Practical Strategies for the Inclusive Classroom presents pre-service teachers, alternate route candidates, and in-service teachers with highly practical research-based practices to promote inclusion in the classroom. With this first book in the Pathways to Teaching Series you will learn to successfully promote learning for all students through a unique two-tiered research-based process that includes:

• A problem-solving approach to identify if a problem exists or could exist, what hypothesis should be made, and why the problem is occurring.
• A framework for selecting and employing research-based strategies/interventions for the identified problem.

This text also provides universal interventions that can be used on an on-going basis in your classroom and across all ability and grade levels.

Features for Your Success

• A matrix aligning this text with the Interstate New Teacher Assignment and Support Consortium (INTASC) Standards for Beginning Teachers can be found inside the front cover.
• Each chapter includes:
  • Information on diversity, technology, classroom collaboration and standards-based education.
  • A Chapter-at-a Glance illustration and Learner Objectives that outline and organize the chapter material.
  • An opening vignette and real life examples throughout encourage you to make connections between the chapter and classroom applications.
  • A Summary as well as Resources and Suggested Readings help you reflect on and further explore the chapter content.

Pathways to Teaching Series

Visit Pearson’s online catalog (www.prenhall.com) for a look at additional books in this series covering:

• Assessment,
• General methods,
• English language learners,
• and Classroom management.

This brief Inclusion text presents highly practical and research-based strategies for promoting learning for all students in the classroom. The book is presented in a two-tier process that includes taking a problem-solving approach to identify problems and a framework for selecting and employing research based strategies or interventions for the identified problem. The text also provides universal interventions that can be used on an on-going basis in the classroom and across all ability and age levels. These strategies require little or no resources.

This is the first in a series of eight texts to address teacher shortage and professional development issues. Teachers with degrees are now seeking alternate areas of certification in this age of standards- based educational reform. This text presents practical, research-based interventions to be used to provide access to the curriculum for students with special needs, as they will now also be required to take standardized tests.

Each chapter includes a Chapter-at-a-Glance illustration, Learner Objectives, Vignettes, Summary, and Resources and Suggested Readings. Every chapter will also include information on diversity, technology, classroom collaboration, and standards-based education. A matrix for the INTASC standards for Beginning Teachers and how it aligns with the chapters in the book is located on the inside cover.