Inclusion - Best Practices and Strategies to Maximize Student Success

This page provides the templates for the art project written by Stephanie Geider.

Readers share ways that they have successfully negotiated the difficult challenges of working in a co-teaching full inclusion classroom.

Sharing inclusion successes in a co-teaching situation, and ways to meet further challenges.

These Lesson Plans cover five days of activities which emphasize the story and the cultural practices surrounding Christmas, a favorite holiday in the United States.

Sekukkulu, or Christmas, is celebrated in Uganda by dressing up, worshiping at church, and feasting on traditional banana and chicken meals, created with love and celebrated for days.

A differentiated lesson plan that uses Christmas, shopping and your students own motivation to solve problems, use functional reading skills and math skills.

Four days of lesson plans for the second week of a comprehensive unit for winter holidays about Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights.

These lesson plans cover a week during the festival of Eid al Adha, the celebration of the obedience of Ibrahim, or Abraham. It falls at the end of the Hajj or pilgrimage, and is a joyful time of feasting, exchanging gifts and visiting family.

A unit plan for the Holidays of Eid al Adha, Christmas, and Hanukah, which all fall between Thanksgiving and the new year.

This review recommends titles by Patricia Polacco that teach diversity and support teaching understanding in general and special education settings.

A Lesson Plan for Thanksgiving provides a way for students in an inclusive classroom to participate across abilities in a web search that will teach them about the history of Thanksgiving.

Learn how to create rubrics that can be used to structure assignments and evaluate student work in an inclusive classroom.

This article demonstrates how to differentiate a science lesson using collaboration, strong visual elements, and assessment methods built on strengths.

Differentiated instruction for students with and without disabilities in an inclusive classroom involves planning that uses multi-sensory presentation of information, especially a strong visual component, peer coaches, collaborative grouping, rubrics and differentiated assessment.

Teaching responsibility and life skills throughout the school. Life skills teaching. Life skills and special education.

Lessons for the inclusive classroom.

Free worksheets for social skills and peer relationships. Social skills lessons.

Auditory processing and following directions strategies. Teacher checklist for inclusion.

Discipline and behavior checklist for the inclusional classroom.

The inclusive or inclusional classroom. Creating a learning environment. Teaching strategies that work.

'How to Reach and Teach all Students' is an excellent resource that provides you with strategies and best practices for teaching in the inclusional classroom.

Different levels of inclusion are defined on this site as well as what section 504 means to students with learning disabilities.

Transcripts of interviews with families of children with special needs. Read why they did or didn't want to integrate their children.

Classrooms that include students with disabilities are designed to meet the individual needs of all students, whether they have disabilities or not.

What the least restrictive environment for learning should look like is listed here.

Inclusion is the way in which children who receive special education services are placed in general education classrooms. Inclusion requires general education and special education teachers to work together.

Collaboration is essential to success in a full inclusion classroom where a special educator and general educator will be co-teaching.

With a strong push to provide true LRE (Least Restrictive Environment) more and more children with disabilities are spending most or all of their day in a general education classroom. Two models have emerged for inclusion: push in, where a special educator goes into the general education classroom for part of the day to provide specially designed instruction, and the co-teaching model, where a g…

Looking for feedback from other teachers of children with autism to learn about the ways instruction is provided for their students in their state.

Project based learning is a powerful way to include children across developmental, intellectual and ability differences, engaging them in projects at their own ability levels.