Differentiating Instruction in Inclusive Classrooms The Special Educator's Guide

This text teaches effective pedagogy in a practical, realistic way for the special educator. Readers learn how to provide social, behavioral and academic support to students in the general education curriculum and context but also learn how to provide explicit and intensive support for students with disabilities to ensure learning. The book emphasizes the importance of decision-making based on students' academic and social needs. Within various subject areas, the book moves fluidly between theory and pedagogy by illustrating important concepts and constructs with realistic examples and practical ideas that can be readily implemented. Readers will learn how to provide more intensive individualized intervention for students with particular learning or behavioral challenges within an inclusive context. Because many students with high incidence disabilities experience challenges in reading and writing, a significant portion of the book is devoted to methods for developing literacy in elementary and secondary students with disabilities. Both authors bring years of experience as special education classroom teachers to this book and have conducted numerous research studies in inclusive classrooms. Inservice or Preservice special education teachers