Inclusion in Action: Practical Strategies to Modify Your Curriculum / Edition 1

by Nicole Eredics

Overview

How can K–12 educators break down the barriers to full inclusion and teach all learners effectively? Curriculum modifications are the key—and Nicole Eredics is the expert!

A seasoned educator and creator of popular blog The Inclusive Class, Eredics introduces you to the what and how of inclusion in this motivating, reader-friendly guidebook. You'll start with a big-picture guide to creating an inclusive culture in your classroom and school, with invaluable guidance on key topics like team collaboration, universal design for learning, co-teaching, social-emotional supports, and accommodations. Then you'll get 40 specific, teacher-tested strategies to modify your curriculum for students who work below grade level. Ready to use in your classroom right away, each strategy comes with student goals, simple step-by-step directions and implementation tips, suggested interventions and extensions, and samples of authentic student work that illustrate the strategy in action.

Equally useful as a beginner's guide to inclusion and a goldmine of practical ideas for experienced teachers, this must-have book will help make your curriculum “possible and achievable” for every learner, with and without disabilities.

PRACTICAL MATERIALS: More than a dozen reproducible forms for use with specific modifications; lists of helpful inclusion-themed websites, blogs, books, and videos.

40 modifications that help students:

• Learn new vocabulary words
• Understand story structure
• Sequence materials, concepts, and numbers
• Develop recall ability
• Demonstrate relationships among ideas
• Organize information
• Make a representation of a concept
• Identify similarities and differences
• Make decisions based on evidence
• Learn to recognize and correct errors
• and more!

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681252247
Publisher:	Brookes Publishing
Publication date:	04/01/2018
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	84,667
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Nicole Eredics is an educator who advocates for the inclusion of students with disabilities in the general education classroom. She draws upon her years of experience as a full inclusion teacher to write, speak, and consult on the topic of inclusive education to various local and national organizations. Nicole uses her unique insight and knowledge to provide practical strategies for fully including and instructing students of all abilities in the classroom. You can follow Nicole online through her popular blog The Inclusive Class.

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Table of Contents

About the Forms
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction

• The Struggle to Include
• What Needs to Change?
• Bridging the Gap with This Book

I. Including All Students

1. Preparing for Inclusion
• Moving From Segregation to Inclusion
• Core Beliefs of Inclusive Education
• The Benefits of Inclusive Education
• Conclusion

1. Supporting Inclusion Schoolwide
• The Role of School Leadership and Staff
• School Culture
• School Community
• School Spaces
• Conclusion

1. Supporting Inclusion in the Classroom
• The Inclusive Classroom Team: Building a Network of Support
• Creating an Inclusive Classroom Culture
• Conclusion

1. Making Curriculum Accessible Through Instructional Strategies and Accommodations
• Ways to Make Classroom Instruction Inclusive
• Conclusion

1. Making Curriculum Achievable Through Modifications
• What Are Curriculum Modifications?
• Why Modify?
• How Are Curriculum Modifications Made?
• Conclusion

II. Modifying Curriculum for Students Who Work Below Grade Level

1. Research-Based Curriculum Modifications for Inclusion
• Modifications: Different Ways to Make the Same Curriculum Achievable
• Maintaining High Standards While Modifying Curriculum
• Instructional Strategies That Modify Curriculum
• How to Use the Strategies
• Conclusion

1. The Strategies
• Who Benefits From Use of These Strategies?
• How to Use This Chapter
• Strategies for Knowledge Retrieval
• Strategies for Comprehension
• Strategies for Analysis
• Strategies for Knowledge Utilization

Appendix A: Helpful Resources
Appendix B: Helpful Forms
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

“This book provides a great foundation for educators or parents to understand the inclusion movement for students with more complex needs. Nicole provides a plethora of resources grounded in work samples for curriculum modifications to help bridge the gap for students with targeted academic needs.

Lisa Dieker

“As a mom whose daughter was a victim of badly done inclusion, I've read a lot of books on the subject and have always been frustrated by a focus on lofty theory over down-to-earth strategies. Teachers and administrators and school districts need to know how to do this, on the ground, right now. In Inclusion in Action, Nicole Eredics—who's had some experience doing this in the real world—provides just what's needed, from specific ways to adapt meaningful instruction for all levels of learner to worksheets I wish my kids could have had in their school days to a needed reminder that everyone in a school building has a part to play in inclusion. Get this in the hands of a teacher near you ASAP!

Terri Mauro

“Inclusion in Action provides a strong theoretical foundation as well as many effective practices. Eredics reminds us that inclusion is a core belief and shares strategies to realize it in today's schools.

Whitney H. Rapp