Teaching Everyone: An Introduction to Inclusive Education

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

4. 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
5. 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
6. Classroom Management
• Building Community
• Classroom Management
7. Differentiation
• A Conceptual Framework for Successful Differentiation
• Differentiation of Instruction
• Considerations and Classroom Cases
8. Universal Design for Learning
• Definition of UDL
• Why UDL?
• Principles of UDL
• A UDL Classroom
• Case Example
9. Assessment
• Assessment in the Classroom
• Evaluation for Special Education
• Placement and the Individual Education Plan
10. Collaboration
• Collaboration Best Practices
• Home-School Collaboration
• Collaboration within the School
• Collaboration between School and Agencies
11. Transition from High School to Adult Life
• Issues
• Legislation and Processes
• Community Connections

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

12. Management Strategies for All Students
• Strategies for Management
13. 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
14. Writing Strategies for All Students
• Components of Writing
• Strategies for Engagement, Input, Output, and Assessment
15. Social Studies Strategies for All Students
• Strategies for Teaching Social Studies to All Students
• Assessment
16. Math Strategies for All Students
• Strategies for Teaching Math to All Students
• Assessment
17. Science Strategies for All Students
• Strategies for Teaching Science to All Students
• Assessment
18. Social and Communication Strategies for All Students
• Strategies for Teaching Social and Communication Skills to All Students
• Assessment
19. Working with Special Area Teachers and Related Service Professionals
• Working with Special Area Teachers

Appendix: Resources for Comprehensive Teaching

References

Name Index

Subject Index