Supporting Inclusion: School Administrators’ Perspectives and
Practices provides significant insights that arm the reader with a
variety of ideas and easy-to-implement applicable strategies gleaned
from knowledgeable contemporaries. This book details various
approaches taken by administrators as they transitioned their schools
from a segregated resource environment to an inclusive framework. From
elementary to high school, administrators in both large and small
school districts describe approaches that best suited their
populations’ needs.
While transitioning to inclusion, administrators created structures
that maximized staff talent and encouraged faculty buy-in. Challenges
included calendaring collaboration time, providing inclusion and
co-teaching training, properly mentoring first year teachers, securing
expert ancillary staff, retraining paraprofessionals from resource to
inclusive supporting roles, procuring appropriate technology and
supplemental resources, and presenting strategies to accommodate
behaviorally challenged students. Programing often required shifting
populations and leveling classes. Ultimately, administrators
established and sustained inclusive classrooms with a good deal of
success.
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School Administrators' Perspectives and Practices
Product details
ISBN
9781475807905
Published
2015
Edition
1. edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Author