Inclusive Teaching: Creating Effective Schools for All Learners [Paperback]

J. Michael Peterson (Author), Mishael M. Hittie (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0205296289 | ISBN-13: 978-0205296286 | Publication Date: November 9, 2002

Filled with practical strategies and informed by solid theory and research, Inclusive Teaching provides teachers and other educational professionals with tools for building inclusive schools that support all learners in learning well. The authors approach inclusion using the best practices learned in their general education courses-those founded on a constructivist educational philosophy and designed for diversity-so that students with widely different academic, social-emotional, and sensory-physical abilities can learn together, and learn well. The latest reprint reflects IDEA 2004.

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon (November 9, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0205296289
• ISBN-13: 978-0205296286
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #576,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Looking for help with inclusive education?, April 27, 2003

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Carla Harting (Livonia, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inclusive Teaching: Creating Effective Schools for All Learners (Paperback)

This book is filled with ideas on how to practically meet the needs of inclusive education. "Stepping Stones" give suggested activities to find how "inclusive" your school is and ways to collaborate with other individuals within your school and community on the road to inclusive schools. This would be a useful tool to educators and parents, to discover ways to adapt academic instruction to meet the needs of all students, both general and special education.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars practical, useful, well written, insightful., March 19, 2003

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Jungman "jungman7" (Webster, IA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inclusive Teaching: Creating Effective Schools for All Learners (Paperback)

I will be using this text for my graduate and undergraduate courses. It provides one of the best descriptions of an inclusive school environment that I have encounter in all the textbooks that I have reviewed. There are many practical tips and strategies for meeting the special learning needs of a variety of populations. It promotes a child-centered philosophy pervades. This is a great professional resource for anyone who wants to get a good overview of inclusive education.
Andrew Johnson

Minnesota State University, Mankato

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this book for best practices for inclusive schools, March 13, 2003

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bojj (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Inclusive Teaching: Creating Effective Schools for All Learners (Paperback)

If you would like a comprehensive book on inclusion, I highly recommend Inclusive Teaching. Michael Peterson and Mishael Hittie do an outstanding job in covering all of the best practices you would like to see in inclusive schools. They highlight excellent strategies; from developing communities in schools to addressing the variety of academic abilities within a classroom. The text also provides examples to illustrate how these strategies are implemented in schools across the country. The book is further supported through a web site and Allyn & Bacon also provide a very useful instructor's manual. As both an educator and a parent of a young man with disabilities who has been included in public schools I believe this book provides an extensive source of information; I highly recommend this book for both general and special education teachers in public schools and also for use in higher education for teacher education courses.