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Facilitator's Guide to More Inclusion Strategies That Work!

By: Toby J. Karten

Lead workshops to help teachers connect best inclusive practices with standards!

This facilitator's guide offers insights about how educators can maximize the strengths of students in inclusive classrooms and meet curriculum standards for all learners while maintaining sound educational principles. Staff developers will find step-by-step instructions to conduct training sessions for groups of any size and lead focused discussions on:

Applying inclusive strategies across the curriculum
Instructing students at differing cognitive, sensory, physical, behavioral, emotional, and social levels
Using assessments that are sensitive to differences in students' abilities
Varying the complexity and pace of lessons while achieving learning objectives

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412964845
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 80
Publication date: March 12, 2008

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Lead workshops to help teachers connect best inclusive practices with standards!

Based on the best-selling book More Inclusion Strategies That Work! this facilitator's guide offers techniques for maximizing the strengths of all students in inclusive classrooms while meeting curriculum standards for all learners. Staff developers and workshop leaders will find specific tools to facilitate book study groups, seminars, and professional development events that increase teachers' skills in using inclusion strategies on a daily basis to instruct students at differing cognitive, sensory, physical, behavioral, emotional, and social levels. This easy-to-use guidebook offers step-by-step instructions for leading focused discussions on:

Applying inclusive strategies across the curriculum
Using assessments that are sensitive to differences in students' abilities
Varying the complexity and pace of lessons while achieving learning objectives
Maintaining sound educational principles

The chapter-by-chapter study guide features:

Workshop activities
Discussion questions
Suggestions for practical applications
Chapter summaries
Handouts and overheads
Resources for extending learning
Sample agendas for half-day, one-day, and two-day workshops
A workshop evaluation form

The Facilitator's Guide to More Inclusion Strategies That Work! is ideal for staff developers or anyone leading professional training for groups of any size—pairs, small workshops, or large seminars.

Key features

Features and benefits for the facilitator include:

Chapter summaries
Supplemental information for extended learning
Discussion questions
Activities for individuals or groups
Journaling prompts
Timed activities
A workshop evaluation form

Author(s)

Toby J. Karten

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Toby J. Karten is an experienced educator who has been immersed in the field of special education for her entire career. As an accomplished author and researcher, she has presented successful staff development to local, national, and international audiences. Toby is affiliated with Drew and Monmouth University and is an adjunct professor and graduate instructor at the Regional Training Center, which is affiliated with Gratz College and The College of New Jersey. Being involved in the field of special education for the past three decades has afforded Ms. Karten an opportunity to help many children and adults from elementary through graduate levels around the world. She has been a resource teacher, staff developer, adult educator, and inclusion coach and consultant in New York and New Jersey schools and in many districts nationally and globally. In addition to her roles as an inclusion coach, student and family advocate, professional developer, mentor and resource teacher, Toby designed graduate courses titled From Challenge to Success; LD, ADHD, and the Spectrum and Skills and Strategies for Inclusion and disABILITY Awareness. She has trained instructors in three states to teach her courses. In addition, she has designed online courses for NaMaYa titled Collaborative Practices for Inclusive Classrooms and Interventions for Students with Dyslexia and Other Reading Differences. She has been recognized by both the Council for Exceptional Children and the New Jersey Department of Education as an exemplary educator, receiving two Teacher of the Year awards. She earned an undergraduate degree in special education from Brooklyn College, a master of science in special education from the College of Staten Island, a supervisory degree from Georgian Court University, and an honorary doctorate from Gratz College. Toby has authored several books and resources about inclusion practices and the CCSS, which are currently used for instruction on many college and university campuses and schools throughout the world.

Ms. Karten is married, has a son, and a few dogs. She enjoys teaching, reading, writing, artwork, and most of all, learning. Toby believes that inclusion does not begin and end in the classroom, but is a philosophy that continues throughout life. Hence, inclusion is not only research-based, but life-based as well!

Table of Contents

About the Author

Introduction

Preface

Chapter-by-Chapter Study Guide: Facilitator's Guide to More Inclusion Strategies That Work! Aligning Student Strengths With Standards by Toby J. Karten

Part I. Fundamentals of Honoring Potentials and Strengths of Students and Teachers

Chapter 1. Concentrating on Students' Strengths and Curriculum Standards

Chapter 2. Understanding Assessments and Curriculum Standards

Chapter 3. How Students Learn: Brain Basics

Chapter 4. How Teachers Teach: Good Practices for All

Part II. Standards-Based Inclusion Strategies That Work

Chapter 5. Standards-Based Reading Objectives

Chapter 6. Standards-Based Writing, Listening, and Speaking Objectives

Chapter 7. Standards-Based Math Objectives

Chapter 8. Standards-Based Science and Technology Objectives

Chapter 9. Standards-Based Social Studies Objectives

Chapter 10. Standards-Based Art, Dance, Theater, and Music Objectives

Chapter 11. Standards-Based Health/Physical Education Objectives

Chapter 12. Standards-Based Career Education and Life Skills Objectives

Chapter 13. Standards-Based Social/Behavioral/Emotional Objectives

Part III. Application of Strengths and Standards to Inclusive Environments

Chapter 14. Standards-Based Interdisciplinary/Cross-Curricular Lessons

Chapter 15. Attaining Inclusion

Chapter 16. Rewards for All

Handouts

Handout 1. A–Z Inclusive Assessment Rubric

Handout 2. Smart Chart

Handout 3. Looking Back to Move Ahead

Handout 4. Strategies People Search

Handout 5. Problem Solving: Inclusive Strategies

Handout 6. The Goal of Special Education

Handout 7. Science Levels and Accommodations for All Students Planner

Handout 8. Lesson Plan

Handout 9. I Can Do This, Too!

Handout 10. Neighborhood Connections and Objectives

Handout 11. Working Backward

Handout 12. How Much Do You Remember?

Handout 13. Roundtable Discussion

Overheads

Overhead 1. Connecting to Inclusion

Overhead 2. Compass Rose

Overhead 3. Interdisciplinary Approach

Sample Workshop Agendas

Half-Day Workshop Agenda

One-Day Workshop Agenda

Two-Day Workshop Agenda

Workshop Evaluation Form

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