The Journey Towards Creating Effective Schools for All Learners

CHAPTER TWELVE

Inclusive Academic Instruction Part II - Plan Inclusive Lessons and Units

InclusiveNet. Links to relevant internet resources.

Learning tools. Tools for analysis, discussion, and planning you may use in class, professional development, and in your own practice as a teacher.

• Strategies for multi-level teaching. Activity Tool 12-2 lists multiple strategies for multi-level teaching. Participants may review these indicating those they would like to try, sketching ideas about how they might start.
• A day of multi-level lessons. Ask students to work in small groups and develop strategies for authentic, multi-level lessons across all subjects for one day using Activities Tool 11-10.
• Rating multiple intelligences. Use Activity Tool 12-3 and have participants assess the degree to which they use multiiple intelligences in their teaching.
• Multiple intelligences planning circle. Using Activities Tool 12-4, participants may select a learning goal or theme for a series of activities and identify ways that they can help students learn using each of the multiple intelligences.
• Contextual elements of learning style. Using Activity Tool 12-5 request that participants review these element of learning styles and brainstorm strategies by which they might incorporate learning style choices in their instruction.
• Strategies for individualized differentiation. Participants may review the strategies on Activity Tools 12-6 a and b and identify approaches to use with a specific individual student.
• Levels of ability and multiple intelligences. Participants may use Activity Tool 12-7 to identify individualized differentiation strategies based on multiple intelligences.
• Multiple intelligences and adaptations. Using other intelligences to strengthen an area of need. Have students identify a problem area in learning of a student and place this in the middle of the Activity Tool 12-8. Then ask them to consider strategies under each of the multiple intelligences that might be used to support and bolster the problem the student is having.

Artwork reprinted by permission of
Martha Perske from PERSKE:
PENCIL PORTRAITS 1971-1990
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.