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Inclusive Classroom, The: Strategies for Effective Instruction, 1/e

Margo A. Mastropieri
Thomas E. Scruggs, both of the George Mason Universtiy

Published July, 1999 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

Copyright 2000, 638 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-496472-1


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Summary

For courses in Inclusion, Mainstreaming or Intro to Special Education. This text has a strong emphasis on inclusive teaching with a wealth of ideas and lessons for K-12 teaching strategies in the content areas. As highly respected researchers, the authors write from a fact-based perspective, which delivers proven strategies that will help both general and special education teachers instruct students with special needs most effectively.

Features


Introduces the PASS system for effective, inclusive teaching.

  • This system will remind students to Prioritize objectives; Adapt materials, unique instruction, and environment; use a Systematic teaching methodology; and develop a Systematic plan for evaluation.
Includes individual chapters on how to adapt instruction for math, science and social studies, language and literacy, and the arts.
  • Future teachers will learn content-specific teaching strategies.
Each chapter has one or more “Research Highlight”—Each “Highlight” describes the research behind a successful teaching strategy.
  • Future teachers will learn only about effective teaching strategies that can be supported by research.
Each chapter contains 2 special boxes: “IN the Classroom for Teachers” and “IN the Classroom for Students”.
  • The first box contains practical “how to” information specifically directed at teachers. The second box contains handouts, worksheets and other materials that future teachers can copy and give to their students.
At the end of each chapter is an “Inclusion Checklist”.
  • These unique Checklists can be used to help the teacher determine whether they have done what is needed to create a true, inclusive classroom for all their students.
In addition to an instructor's manual and testing materials, 2 Videos and a Companion Website accompany the text.
  • A full package will make it easier for the professor to teach the course and show that they are integrating technology into their course.
Each chapter contains margin notes that highlight World Wide Web links to important and relevant sites.


Table of Contents
PART I. THE FUNDAMENTALS.
    1. Introduction to Inclusive Teaching.
    2. Collaboration: Partnerships and Procedures.
    3. Teaching Students with Higher-Incidence Disabilities.
    4. Lower-Incidence Disabilities.
    5. Teaching Students with Other Special Learning Needs.

PART II. DEVELOPING EFFECTIVE TEACHING SKILLS.
    6. Effective Instruction for All Students.
    7. Improving Classroom Behavior and Social Skills.
    8. Promoting Inclusion with Classroom Peers.
    9. Enhancing Motivation and Affect.
    10. Improving Attention and Memory.
    11. Teaching Study Skills.
    12. Assessment.
PART III. TEACHING IN THE CONTENT AREAS.
    13. Literacy.
    14. Mathematics.
    15. Science and Social Studies.
    16. Art, Music, Physical Education, Foreign Languages, Vocational Education, and Transitions.
    Appendix.
    References.
    Name Index.
    Subject Index.

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