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Definition
In Education, inclusion is an approach to educating students with special educational needs. In an inclusion model, students with special needs spend as much time possible in a classroom with non-disabled students.

Overview
Inclusive education is a change from the ideals of "integration" and "mainstreaming", which was concerned with disability and special education needs, and implied learners changing or becominig ready for accomodation by the mainstream. Inclusion is about the child's right to participate and the school's responsibility to accept the child. Inclusion rejects the use of special schools or classrooms to separate students with disabilities from students without disabilities. Whenever possible, the students receive any additional help or special instruction in the general classroom, and the student is treated like a full member of the class. Lessons are often differentiated to meet the needs of all learners.



Webpages
Powerpoint presentation on Inclusion:

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[|Effective Inclusion : Professional Development in The Context of the Classroom by Howard M. Weiner]

This article gives suggestions for educators who use inclusive education in their school districts. The article also gives information on professional development for educators and strategies to provide services for students with special needs.

[|Parental Perspectives on Inclusion: Effects of Autism and Down Syndrome]

This article gives parental perspectives on the impact of inclusion education on their child with special needs. The article focuses on mainly parents of students with Autism and Down Syndrome.

[|Inclusion In The Classroom: Has It Gone Too Far?]

This article examines critics of inclusion education and problems with providing students with severe disabilities adequate service. The articles also reveals perspectives on ways for educators to improve inclusion education classrooms.

KidsTogether.org

An excellent non for profit website that helps promote inclusion in education.

Blogs
[|Inclusion 'Backfiring?' Blog Week]

This Education Week blog on Inclusion education gives multiple perspectives from a various educators in school districts on the comments section. The Blogger discusses critical views on inclusion education in classrooms.

[|Inclusion Education Blog]

This is a inclusion education blog where topics and experiences connecting with inclusion education can be shared with other people. This blog shares the inclusion education experience from the students, parents and educators perspectives.

[|Inclusive Schools]

This US Department of Education blog supports inclusion education and has many responses and comments regarding inclusion in the classrooms.

Teaching Every Student

This blog give strategies on how to teach different students in an inclusionary classroom setting.

Special Education Strategies and More...

This blog is a great resource on different strategies teachers can use when trying to include students in the learning process.

The Classroom Teacher's Inclusion Handbook by Jerome C. Yanoff
This resource advises teachers how to meet the needs of a diverse student population within a mainstreamed classroom. It lists examples of questions teachers should ask and the kind of help they might expect from classroom aides, administrators, the school board, and parents. Here are the goals that teachers should set for special needs students, the roles of other students in the classroom, and the steps to take if the placement is not successful. Attention is paid to each special need-the disability is clearly defined, characteristic behaviors are outlined, and suggestions for working with each are given.( Amazon. com)

Brain- Friendly Strategies for The Inclusion Classroom by Judy Willis
Many teachers in regular classrooms feel unprepared to teach students with learning disabilities. Fortunately, brain research has confirmed that strategies benefiting learners with special challenges are suited for engaging and stimulating all learners. In this book, neurologist and classroom teacher Judy Willis explains that we can best help students by putting in place strategies, accommodations, and interventions that provide developmentally and academically appropriate challenges to suit the needs, gifts, and goals of each student. Brain-Friendly Strategies for the Inclusion Classroom will help teachers

- Understand how the brain learns and the technologies that reveal this process. - Implement strategies that are compatible with students' individual learning styles and honor their multiple intelligences. - Improve the focus of students with attention disorders and help them gain the confidence and skills they need to develop goal-oriented behaviors. - Create an enriching learning environment by incorporating student-centered activities, discovery and hands-on learning experiences, cross-curricular learning, and multisensory lessons. - Implement strategic review, study, and test preparation strategies that will allow students to retain information and connect it with future learning. - Build safe, supportive classroom communities and raise class awareness and empathy for students with learning disabilities.

It's time for teachers to lower the barriers, not the bar. Using strategies that align with research on how people's brains function, teachers can engage all students as individuals and help them reach their maximum potential with joy and confidence.(Amazon.com)

Inclusion: A classroom teacher's perspective: from "intrusion" to inclusion, success for all learners by Janet G. Kmpotich
INCLUSION: A CLASSROOM TEACHER'S PERSPECTIVE is written by an experienced elementary school teacher, who like all educators, strives to make the classroom a successful place for all her children. Her challenge has been to manage the modifications & time needed to make the classroom a successful place for those students who spend part of their school day in a Special Education Learning Resource Room. In this book, the author outlines a variety of inclusion models. She takes the description further by detailing an inclusion model which came to be called "Teacher Inclusion." Not only did she see ALL students benefiting from this plan, but regular & special education teachers felt more effective because they were receiving on-the-spot training from each other. (Google books)

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Through real-life stories about children, their families, and their teachers, and through the use of the most recent evidence-based research on special education, this important book provides students with a comprehensive introduction to special education and its relationship to general education. The sixth edition provides this experience within the framework of three guiding themes: Inclusion, Partnerships, and Universal Design for Learning.

Long noted for its focus on progress in general education through inclusion, families, and parent-professional partnerships, the new sixth edition of //Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Today's Schools//, now includes a “Values and Outcomes” end-of-chapter feature that focuses on ideal educational results as well as IEP marginal notes that allow readers to link content to practical lessons.

Videos
[|Education Through Inclusion Video] This video gives an example of a school districts perspective on inclusion education in their classrooms. The video discuss inclusion classrooms impact on students who receive special education services.

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[|Inclusion Experience Special Needs Student] This video reveals the experience of a student with special needs in a inclusion setting. The video is a brief introduction to the impact of inclusion on a student with special needs. media type="youtube" key="irTFzoBrHM4" height="315" width="420" [|Teacher strategies in the inclusion classroom]

This video addresses specific strategies that teachers can use in the classroom. It is directed toward both general education and special education teachers.

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This video is a discussion of what must happen for inclusion to be effective. It looks briefly at the legal basis for inclusion and what constitutes the least restrictive environment.

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This video is special education teacher Julie Peebles talking about the teachers perspective regarding inclusion.

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This video shows another teacher speaking as to why inclusion helps all students in education.

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