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Teaching Everyone: An Introduction to Inclusive Education

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Whitney Rapp, Katrina L Arndt

  • Teaching Everyone
  • Teaching Everyone
    Teaching Everyone fully prepares teachers to see past disability labels and work with all students' individual needs and strengths.

400 pages
2012
ISBN: 9781598572124

The new generation of teachers needs a new kind of special education textbook—one that focuses on children, not labels. That's why Whitney Rapp & Katrina Arndt developed Teaching Everyone, the first text that fully prepares teachers to see past disability labels and work with all students' individual needs and strengths.

Accessible and forward-thinking, this inclusive special education text will get K-12 teachers ready to work effectively within today's schools and meet the learning needs of a wide range of students. Educators will:

  • Align their teaching with the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) Initial Content Standards. Each chapter clearly explains how the content helps students meet specific standards.
  • Discover a truly progressive, inclusive approach to education. Breaking free of a categorical approach to disability, this text reveals how to stop relying on labels to access supports for students—and work with each child as an individual instead.
  • Get comprehensive information in one volume. A thorough primer on inclusive special education, this textbook covers all the critical topics teachers need to know about (see below), for a fraction of the cost of similar textbooks.
  • Learn effective teaching strategies for major academic content areas. Educators will get clear, research-backed strategies for teaching reading, writing, science, math, and social studies—including guidance on keeping students engaged and assessing their progress.
  • Get a deep and personal understanding of student and teacher perspectives. With the case studies and narratives from teachers and people with disabilities, educators will have keen first-hand insights that will inform their teaching for years to come.

A foundational text for tomorrow's teachers; and a valuable reference for inservice teachers who want to sharpen and update their skills; this important volume will help usher in an era of truly inclusive classrooms where all children learn and thrive.

With cutting-edge information on

  • differentiated instruction
  • universal design for learning
  • instructional strategies for academic content areas
  • assessment and evaluation
  • social and communication skills
  • response to intervention
  • early intervention policy and practices
  • classroom management positive behavioural interventions and supports (PBIS)
  • functional behaviour assessment
  • IEPs
  • home-school collaboration
  • teacher collaboration
  • transition to adulthood
  • special education legislation
  • child and adolescent development

Table of Contents

About the Authors

Foreword

Douglas Biklen

Foreword

Susan Peters

Acknowledgments

Introduction: First Things First

I. Why Does Teaching Everyone Matter? The History of Special Education

  1. Construction of Ability and Disability, Intersections of Ability, Race, and Gender
    • Disability throughout History
    • How Race, Gender and Disability are Socially Constructed
    • The Social Construction of Disability Impacts Education and Schooling
  2. History of Special Education
    • Education in the United States
    • The Development of Special Education
    • What We Want to See
  3. Special Education Law and Legislation
    • The Road Traveled
    • Where We Stand
    • Current Context and Issues
    • The Trip Ahead

II. What Does Teaching Everyone Mean? The Educator's Role and Citizenship in the Classroom

  1. Early Intervention, Martha Mock
    • Development of Policy and Practices of Early Intervention
    • Inclusive Early Childhood Education
    • Major Principles in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Special Education
    • Conclusion and Future Direction of Early Intervention
  2. Child and Adolescent Development
    • Theories of Child and Adolescent Development
    • Impact of Developmental Theories in Context of School
    • What Teachers Should Know About Child and Adolescent Development
  3. Classroom Management
    • Building Community
    • Classroom Management
  4. Differentiation
    • A Conceptual Framework for Successful Differentiation
    • Differentiation of Instruction
    • Considerations and Classroom Cases
  5. Universal Design for Learning
    • Definition of UDL
    • Why UDL?
    • Principles of UDL
    • A UDL Classroom
    • Case Example
  6. Assessment
    • Assessment in the Classroom
    • Evaluation for Special Education
    • Placement and the Individual Education Plan
  7. Collaboration
    • Collaboration Best Practices
    • Home-School Collaboration
    • Collaboration within the School
    • Collaboration between School and Agencies
  8. Transition from High School to Adult Life
    • Issues
    • Legislation and Processes
    • Community Connections

III. How Will I Teach Everyone? Instructional Strategies by Content Area

  1. Management Strategies for All Students
    • Strategies for Management
  2. Reading Strategies for All Students
    • Reading Instruction and Access to Instruction
    • Least Dangerous Assumption
    • Digital Media, National Core Curriculum Standards and Response to Intervention (RTI)
    • Strategies for Engagement, Input, Output, and Assessment
  3. Writing Strategies for All Students
    • Components of Writing
    • Strategies for Engagement, Input, Output, and Assessment
  4. Social Studies Strategies for All Students
    • Strategies for Teaching Social Studies to All Students
    • Assessment
  5. Math Strategies for All Students
    • Strategies for Teaching Math to All Students
    • Assessment
  6. Science Strategies for All Students
    • Strategies for Teaching Science to All Students
    • Assessment
  7. Social and Communication Strategies for All Students
    • Strategies for Teaching Social and Communication Skills to All Students
    • Assessment
  8. Working with Special Area Teachers and Related Service Professionals
    • Working with Special Area Teachers

Appendix: Resources for Comprehensive Teaching

References

Name Index

Subject Index