Adapting instruction to accommodate students in inclusive settings

Synopsis

This book presents practical, content-based strategies that form a comprehensive process to teaching all students. It promotes the philosophy that inclusion and transition do not take place as a single event, but are part of a process that occurs throughout instruction. It retains the use of the Systematic Approach for Adapting the Learning Environment (SAALE) model and includes important updates regarding legal mandates, bilingual children, technology, and transition in different school environments. Legal Implications; The Road to Responsibility: Referral to Placement; Bilingual or Limited English Proficient Students; Characteristics of Students with Special Needs; Transition; The Process of Collaboration; The Content: Using the SAALE Model; Adapting the Socioemotional Environment; Adapting the Behavioral Environment; Adapting the Physical Environment; Adapting Lesson Plans; Adapting Teaching Techniques; Adapting the Format of Content; Adapting Multi-Media Approaches; Adapting Student Evaluation; Adapting Grading.