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Inclusive Classroom, The

Inclusive Classroom, The

Strategies for Effective Instruction (with MyEducationLab)
4th Edition

Margo Mastropieri, Thomas Scruggs

Aug 2009, Paperback with access code, 480 pages
ISBN13: 9780136101277
ISBN10: 0136101275
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This text offers a wealth of practical and proven strategies for successfully including students with disabilities in general education classrooms. The text provides targeted strategies for the subject and skill areas, as well as special needs of individual students, with a strong focus on instructional strategies applied to specific student need areas. An overall theme of “effective, differentiated instruction” is infused throughout the text, relating to those practices that are most closely aligned with academic success. The text is unique in its three-part coverage of 1). the fundamentals of teaching students with special needs, 2). effective general teaching practices, and 3).inclusive practices in specific subject areas. With a strong focus on instructional strategies and how they are applied to specific student need areas, the text goes further by featuring more specific strategies than any other text, and extensive information about the most effective strategies available, and when and how to use them.. This strong focus instructs pre-service teachers and other education personnel on how they can implement in the classroom specific strategies to address a very wide range of grade levels, skill levels, academic content areas; and extensive and very specific information on strategies teachers can use in the areas of most concern to them, e.g., behavior management, handling student confrontations, promoting literacy, memory for school content, motivation to learn, maintaining student attention, adapting assessment and improving test scores, and specific strategies for adapting specific lessons in math, science, social studies, and career and technical education. Specifically written for pre-service or in-service special education teachers who will work with general education teachers in K-12 classrooms, the text is also relevant for school psychologists, counselors, support staff, and other school personnel interested in helping all students succeed in the classroom.

PART I The Fundamentals

Chapter 1 Introduction to Inclusive Teaching

Chapter 2 Collaboration: Partnerships and Procedures

Chapter 3 Teaching Students with Higher-Incidence Disabilities

Chapter 4 Teaching Students with Lower-Incidence Disabilities

Chapter 5 Teaching Students with Other Special Learning Needs

PART II Developing Effective Teaching Skills

Chapter 6 Effective Instruction for All Students

Chapter 7 Improving Classroom Behavior and Social Skills

Chapter 8 Promoting Inclusion with Classroom Peers

Chapter 9 Enhancing Motivation and Affect

Chapter 10 Improving Attention and Memory

Chapter 11 Teaching Study Skills

Chapter 12 Assessment

PART III Teaching in the Content Areas

Chapter 13 Literacy

Chapter 14 Mathematics

Chapter 15 Science and Social Studies

Chapter 16 Transitions

The fourth edition focuses on the basic tools educators need and directly relate this content to the academic and professional demands of teachers in inclusive settings.

  • Unique three-part structure—allows readers to understand students with special learning needs, effective general practices for inclusive instruction, and content-specific strategies.
    • Part I covers the fundamentals of teaching students with special needs (including legal and professional issues, and characteristics of students with special needs).
    • Part II covers effective general teaching practices (including such topics as strategies for behavior management, improving motivation, increasing attention and memory, and improving study skills).
    • Part III covers inclusive practices in specific subject areas (including literacy, math, science and social studies, vocational and other areas).

Practical and Effective Teaching and Learning Strategies

  • Strategies featured in the text.Chapters 2-16 contain research-based strategies teachers can use in their inclusive classrooms with all students.
  • In the Classroom features offer tips, strategies, and resources that address specific need areas, and may be practically applied in inclusive classrooms.
  • Inclusion Checklists summarize the strategies described in each chapter and are helpful for pinpointing difficulties teachers might be having, or for planning prereferral interventions.
  • MyEducationLab Margin Notes connect content (chapters 2-16) with Activities and Application exercises or Building Teaching Skills and Dispositions assignments on the MyEducationLab.

Research and Resources that Support Practice and Professionalism

  • Research Highlights explain the research behind teaching strategies for students with special needs.
  • Diversity in the Classroom addresses how classrooms are more diverse with respect to students with disabilities, race, gender, religion, language, and ethnicity.
  • Technology Highlights provide information on new technologies and how they can be used to improve academic or social functioning
  • Professional Standards (CEC, INTASC, and PRAXISª) are listed at the end of each chapter.

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