Inclusion Courses

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Building Effective Parent-Teacher Partnerships

When schools work together with families to support learning, children tend to succeed not just in school, but also throughout life. In fact, the most accurate predictor of a student’s achievement in school is not income or social status, but the extent to which that student’s family is able to create a home environment that encourages learning; express high expectations for their children’s achievement and future careers; and become involved in their children’s education at school and in the community. Researchers typically agree that parent should be partners in the education process. This helps children do better in school andContinue Reading

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Side by Side Paraeducator Course 2

Side by Side: Part 2 This course serves to establish paraeducators as essential partners in providing quality services to students in schools. This course focuses on three critical skills that enhance the value of the supports and services provided to students and to their teachers. They are: Adapting instructional materials to increase student access to and success within the curriculum Providing meaningful assistance that is focused on student needs and is not stigmatizing and recognizes six levels of support that offer a continuum of assistance from most to least intensive and intrusive; and Creating a positive learning environment for allContinue Reading

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Collaborative Teaching 2

This course is a continuation of the Collaborative Teaching: A Marriage of Talents and Temperaments, which gave you the skills to build your collaborative teaching partnership. This course specifically focuses on collaboratively planned and taught lessons. The planning process in many cases consists of two phases. The first or initial phase involves drafting the actual lesson. The lesson is activity-based, rigorous as it relates to content standards, challenging and relevant to engage the learner, and inclusive so all students have the opportunity to learn and be successful. The second phase of the planning process involves the dialogue that occurs betweenContinue Reading

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Side by Side

There are approximately 700,000 paraeducators working in the nation’s public schools and additional thousands working in private schools today. These individuals represent a major resource in improving student achievement and building stronger and more effective schools. Yet, there is a consensus across many educators that this resource has never been adequately trained and prepared for the important roles they play. Similarly, most teachers are not prepared to supervise, train, and monitor their paraeducator partners. Course Objectives Describe the roles of the paraeducator and distinguish between the roles of a teacher and a paraeducator Discuss the importance of the paraeducator asContinue Reading

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Multi-Level Instruction

You will never look at instructional decision-making the same way again! This course provides you with four simple questions for designing lessons that are standards-based, promoting student engagement and providing opportunities for success for even the broadest range of diverse learners. In this innovative course, participants are able to customize their learning opportunity on the basis of the grade level they teach. Course Objectives Design a multi-level instructional lesson and learn the simple five-step process Identify two typical "errors" in planning a standards-based lesson and learn how to avoid them Select the grade level and subject area most relevant toContinue Reading

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Collaborative Teaching

Within the past decade, collaborative teaching partnerships have opened the doors of general education classrooms for millions of special populations students. These students and their typical peers receive increased personal support from trained educators, achieve more, and benefit from higher expectations and challenging curriculum and instruction. The teaching partners also benefit from the lower pupil-teacher ratio. Ironically, if you talk to most educators who are beginning a collaborative partnership or who have had poor experiences with the practice, the list of their concerns and perceived barriers is usually extensive. This course is organized to address three aspects of the collaborativeContinue Reading

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New Models of Support

For decades, the roles of special education personnel changed very little. They were assigned their roles on the basis of the labels of the students they served or the places they provided their services. With the shift to inclusive philosophies and integrated practices, special education personnel recognized that their roles were not static but based on individual student needs. The emphasis now is on increasing the quality and amount of in-class support offered inside the general education classroom. In addition, services in traditional “pull-out” classrooms are changing. Although fewer students with disabilities now require services in these specialized settings, theseContinue Reading

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Creating a Culturally Responsive Classroom

Each student’s culture significantly influences his or her learning; each teacher’s culture significantly influences his or her teaching practice. With this understanding, every educator recognizes that it is imperative to become culturally competent and to effectively use culturally responsive instructional strategies in the classroom. In this compelling course, participants delve deeply into their own perceptions of culture competency, learn specific ways to build authentic relationships with every student and to create classrooms that encourage the gifts and contributions that culturally diverse students bring to the classroom. If schools are to close the large and persistent achievement gap, the skills gainedContinue Reading

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