Inclusion Strategies for the Special Educator

This course examines the roles of special educators when including students with disabilities into general education classrooms. Options for success that consider peer relationships, systematic instruction, behavior management, and collaboration are explored. This course focuses on inclusion strategies and collaborative activities that enable special educators, general classroom teachers, and administrators to successfully provide an optimal educational environment for students with disabilities.

Topics and Objectives

Philosophical, Historical, and Legal Foundations for Inclusion

  • Examine the impact of personal and United States philosophies of education.
  • Identify historical and legal foundations of inclusion.

Issues of Inclusion

  • Contrast inclusion and mainstreaming.
  • Identify resistance to inclusion.
  • Describe the Regular Education Initiative.
  • Define inclusion as an instructional intervention.

Professional Roles for Successful Inclusion

  • Identify contributions of general education teachers.
  • Outline the role of the special education teacher.
  • Examine the role of administrators.
  • Examine the issues related to training and working with paraprofessionals.

Inclusive Learning Environments

  • Examine the role of technology in instruction.
  • Describe the impact of culturally and linguistically diverse settings.
  • Examine the impact of heterogeneous groupings.
  • Recognize the value of cooperative learning.
  • Identify the use of multiple intelligences in instruction.
  • Identify the need for adaptation of curriculum.

Planning and Managing the Inclusive Teaching and Learning Environment

  • Determine a process for meeting individual student needs.
  • Develop a systematic approach for inclusion.
  • Describe the need for a systems-level plan.

Managing Student Behavior and Social Interaction Skills

  • Recognize the importance of peer relationships and support.
  • Identify the benefits of social skills training programs.
  • Outline the steps of contingency management.
  • Examine aspects of contracting for behavior management.

Communication and Collaborative Partnerships

  • Identify communication as the foundation of cooperation and collaboration.
  • Describe the key components of the communication process.
  • Examine the roadblocks to communication.
  • Recognize the steps in conflict management.
  • Identify the key characteristics of collaborative consultation.
  • Define collaborative teamwork.
  • Identify the key characteristics of a collaborative team.
  • Outline collaborative strategies for educators and families.

Professionalism and Ethical Practices

  • Identify ethical issues in managing behavior.
  • Examine issues related to culturally and linguistically diverse populations.

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