CHAPTER THIRTEEN Inclusive Academic Instruction Part III - Applications in Subjects

INCLUSIVENET

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It’s Just Good Teaching. The Northwestern Research Educational Laboratory (NWREL) provides a series on inclusive classrooms in math and science downloadable as pdf documents.

Annenberg Media provides teacher resources across ages and subjects. This site has many useful materials including video of exemplary lessons.

Share2Learn. A great site dedicated to encouraging "sharing between and among people on all learning paths". The site has many resources related to all subjects, and particularly interdisciplinary linkages and utilization of the arts in enhancing instruction.

Classroom Planning Resources for Educators. A site of links to many resources for lesson planning and design.

National Curriculum. Site for educators in the United Kingdom that has many resources for inclusive teaching.

Literacy and language arts

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The largest professional organization related to literacy in the United States. A good organization with many resources.

National Reading Panel. This is the official site of the National Reading Panel report. You may want to compare the summary presented publicly with analyses of the report using the research data reviewed by the panel in the book Resisting Reading Mandates by Elaine Garan. Here is a link to the minority report developed by Joanne Yatvin, a member of the National Reading Panel. She disagreed with the public presentation of results and wrote this report. She was the only practicing educator on the Panel.

Achieve 3000. A recently developed, comprehensive literacy program designed to involve students in reading and writing at their own level of ability. The program is web-based. Students ability levels are assessed and they are matched to reading and writing materials at their own level. All students, however, are working on the same topic. Students work on skills and are also involved in authentic, multilevel reading and writing activities. This program is one of the first commercial programs available that support multilevel instruction and is worth a look.

Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement. A great site that has many resources including relevant research in early literacy.

Four Blocks Literacy Model. Great site regarding Patricia Cunningham's multilevel, workshop learning approach to literacy learning.

Meaningful Strategies for Teachers. A great site by Ellen Thompson who provides professional development for workshop learning in literacy.

Research and Literacy. Here's a link to several very useful articles on research and literacy by Margaret Moustafa. Here's another great article on Sixty Years of Reading Research (But Who's Listening) by Steve Zemelman, Harvey Daniels, and Marilyn Bizar, noted educators who promote workshop learning approaches.

National Writing Project. This is the site of this great program that helps teachers improve their skills in writing by involving them, via professional development, in the writing process itself. A great resource!!

Whole Language Umbrella. Site of the national organization that supports and promotes authentic workshop approaches to literacy learning.

Mathematics

Math Standards. Publication of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. The site of the national organization for mathematics instruction in the United States.

Towards humanistic mathematics education. Article by Stephen Brown outlining issues and approach to humanistic, progressive view of mathematics learning.

Learning activities integrating math and science. Site that provides lesson ideas that link learning across disciplines.

Teaching Inclusive Mathematics to Special Learners, K-6. Link to book by this title by Julie Sliva.

Inclusive Mathematics 5-11. Website and overview of the book by this title by Brian Robbins. Looks like a good resource.

Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning difficulties: Mathematics. Site from the UK regarding inclusive teaching of math for students related to their National Curriculum.

Inclusion in mathematics education for students with disabilities. Site part of the overall site for the Mathematics Education Reform Initiative for Teachers (MERIT) funded by the National Science Foundation.

Inclusive Math Communities. A section of the website for Investigations, a mathematics curriculum. A good resource.

Inclusive Curricula: Mathematics and Special Educational Needs. Links to many resources regarding math instruction for students with special needs.

Mathematics for All. Preview of a book by this title by Janine Remillard.

Teaching math to visually impaired students. Website prepared by a special education teacher with substantive experience teaching students who are blind or visually impaired.

Science

Science for All Americans: Education for a changing future. Article and guidelines for teaching science to diverse students from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Inclusive science and special educational needs resources. Comprehensive site regarding teaching students with special needs in science classes from the UK.

Science projects for ALL students: Inclusive science activities. On the website of Hall Sciences.

Inclusion in Science Education for Students with Disabilities Inclusion in Science for Students with Disabilities is helpful for those interested in inclusion for students with a variety of disabilities both physical and learning.

Social studies

Social studies lesson plan site links. Site that provides numerous resources regarding social studies resources and lesson plans.

Facing History and Ourselves. A great site aiming to help teachers link the past to today's moral choices.

Arts

Inclusive art classes. Short article that provides guidelines and suggestions for inclusive teaching in art classes.

Art and disability. Links and resources related to the involvement and achievement of individuals with disabilities in the arts.

Very Special Arts. A national program that seeks to involve individuals with special needs in the arts.

Physical education

P.E. for Life. Site and program that seeks to raise awareness about the physical inactivity levels of America's youth and the state of physical education across the nation and
promote the need for reforming educational policy to include mandatory daily physical education classes for children in grades K-12

The theory and practice of inclusive physical education. Thorough article based on a presentation at an international conference.

National Sports Center for People with Disabilities. Site of program dedicated to involving youth and adults with disabilities in sports.

Adapted Physical Education. Site has resources and strategies for physical education for students with disabilities.

Unified Sports. A program operated by Special Olympics in public schools that combines approximately equal numbers of Special Olympics athletes and athletes without intellectual disabilities (called Partners) on sports teams for training and competition. Age and ability matching of athletes and Partners is defined on a sport-by-sport basis.

Disabled Sports USA. Site describing and celebrating accomplishments of athletes with disabilities.

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