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Inclusive Teaching: Creating Effective Schools for All Learners

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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.

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

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.

Finally a text book that not only keeps you awake but has practical and solid advice. I love the places to visit sections. I have actually visited some of the sites and found them to add to the knowledge in the book. I also was very excited to find a text that did not debate the value of inclusion. The authors simply state with professional accuracy how to go about causing the schools to raise all of our children together. Parents could use the information to advise teachers, teachers can implement the steps to merge with state and federal expectations. My students will be talking about Peterson and Hittie for a very long time.

I have yet to read the book as a whole but I can say this. if the rest of the book is like the first three chapters then you are in for a real treat. the book is jam packet with anything and everything that could help you become a good teacher simply by helping you understand the realm of including children with special needs into your class room. but as i told other friends of mine the book will only help you go your way the true path to being a teacher starts at your heart, if you dont have it there you will never have it no matter how book smart you are. but the books help and so does this one.

This wonderful book challenges the prevailing approach in special education to segregate special ed kids from regular ed kids, notwithstanding the federal requirement that they be educated in the least restrictive environment. The authors take on the justifications, rationalizations and excuses for the status quo and make a compelling case for including ALL children in one classroom.

Most importantly, they give examples of how it can be done and is being done workably and successfully.

Even if you don't buy into authors' argument for full inclusion, the book is chock full of useful strategies and ideas that a teacher can use to diffeentiate instruction for students with different capabilities within the same classroom.

We bought this book for all the schools in a New York City district (33) and principals and teachers have been raving about it. The text has so many examples from real classrooms that teachers are excited about trying some of the strategies the authors explain.

I was surprised at the level of detail and specificity included and am eager to see what my preservice students think of the book.

This book has a great core philosophical message. In addition, the authors provide a number of exmaples that teachers can use as they begin to implement inclusive practices in their classrooms and schools. Well done - I use this in my methods classes.