Inclusion Strategies for Secondary Classrooms: Keys for Struggling Learners

"This updated text provides a wide range of instructional tools that are cleverly introduced, well-referenced, and clearly presented. The book gives preservice teachers an informative and practical introduction as they prepare to work with older students. As an excellent refresher for practicing teachers, it offers new approaches that can be incorporated into everyday inclusive classrooms. This resource will become bookmarked and dog-eared from both initial use and subsequent reference by serious educators." —Jean Lokerson, Faculty Emerita, School of Education Commonwealth University Keys for unlocking the doors to learning for ALL students! This updated edition of the best-selling book Successful Inclusion Strategies for Secondary and Middle School Teachers identifies "locks" to learning and provides targeted strategies, or "keys," that unlock learning barriers for adolescents with disabilities and other learning challenges. Based on empirical research, this basic guide is packed with field-tested, teacher-friendly approaches that support struggling students at various stages of academic development. Inclusion Strategies for Secondary Classrooms examines input locks (attention, perception, discrimination, and sequencing), processing/retention locks (confusion, organization, reasoning, memory), affective locks (frustration and motivation), and output locks (persistence and production), and explains why the key strategies work. This updated edition also discusses: What current research reveals about the unique teaching environment of secondary school classrooms The reauthorization of IDEA 2004 The impact of NCLB on special education How the key strategies can work at all levels of a Response to Intervention program Expanded applications for Universal Design for Learning Discover solutions that will help every student overcome obstacles to learning and develop the skills for academic success!

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgments About the Author 1. The Letters Behind the Book No Child Left Behind Resopnse to Intervention Universal Design for Learning The Purpose of this Book A Note About People First Language 2. The Locks on the Doors to Learning The Locks on the Doors The Input Locks The Information Processing/Retention Locks The Affective Locks The Output Lock The Sum Total of the Locks 3. Keys to the Effectiveness of the Inclusion Strategies Dual Coding Theory and Tri-Coding of Information 4. Ensuring Students Understand Instructions Key 1: Gain Students′ Attention with Attentional Cues Key 2: Providing Written and Oral Instructions Key 3: Repeat Instructions Key 4: Chunking Instructions Key 5: Tell-Backs and Show-Mes 5. Teaching the Concepts and Vocabulary of Our Disciplines Strategies Key 6: Taxonomic Fee Key 7: Semantic Feature Analysis Matrix Key 8: Compare and Contrast Vocabulary Mix Key 9: Typology Key 10: Word Analysis Diagram Key 11: Semantic Map Key 12: Quick Sketching a Definition Key 13: Total Physical Response and Vocabulary Drama Key 14: Keyword Mmemonic Strategy Key 15: Teaching Greek and Latin Morphemes Key 16: Vocabulary Word Card Ring Key 17: Vocabulary Word Wall Key 18: Learning Games Key 19: Peer Tutoring 6. Teaching Devices for Increasing Student Learning From Lectures Key 20: Simply Slowing Down Key 21: Pause Procedure Key 22: Cueing Critical Points Key 23: Explicitly Teaching the Big Ideas Key 24: Providing an Advance Organizer Key 25: Soliciting Students′ Examples Key 26: Providing a Plethora of Examples Key 27: Providing Nonexamples Key 28: Teaching CSA/CRA Key 29: Role Playing Difficult Content 7. Increasing Learning by Using Note Taking Strategies Key 30: Teaching Abbreviations Key 31: Teach Summarizing Key 32: Partial Graphic Organizer Notes Key 33: Guided Notes Key 34: Strategic Notes Key 35: Brick and Mortar Notes Key 36: Three-Column Perzonalized Notes Key 37: Newspaper Notes 8. Promoting Student Learning From the Textbook Key 38: Using GOs to Make Relationships Explicit Key 39: Pre-Teaching Vocabulary Key 40: Explicitly Teaching Text Structure Key 41: Accessible Digital Textbooks 9. Increasing Learning by Using Textbook Guides Key 42: Main Idea Text Structure Study Guide Key 43: List Text Structure Study Guide Key 44: Order Text Structure Study Guide Key 45: Compare and Contrast Text Structure Study Guide Key 46: Cause and Effect Text Structure Study Guide Key 47: Problem Solution Study Guide Key 48: Analogy Study Guide 10. Promoting Factual Mastery Through Mnemonic Devices Key 49: Keyword Mmemonics with Narrative Chains Key 50: Musical Mmemonisc 11. Improving Higher-Order Thinking Skills Key 51: Storyboards Type 1 Key 52: Storyboards Type 2 Key 53: Flowcharts Key 54: Venn-Euler Diagram Key 55: Reasoning by Metaphor and Analogy Key 56: Compare and Contrast Matrix Key 57: Campfire Metaphor for Cause and Effect Key 58: Evaluation by Elimination by Aspects Matric Key 59: Evaluation by Addition Matrix 12. Improving the Quality of Expository Writing Key 60: Teaching Summarizing Key 61: Teaching Text Structure Key 62: Writing Frames Key 63: Using Rubrics Key 64: Data Revival Chart Key 65: Adapted Evaluation Matrices Key 66: Graphic Organizers for Expository Writing 13. Future Keys Future Key #1: fMRI-Supported Learning Strategies Future Key #2: Virtual Reality Future Key #3: Podcasting Future Key #4: Videogame-Based Learning Future Key#5: Videoconference Tutoring The Last Word References Index

About the Author :
M. C. (Millie) Gore is Hardin Distinguished Professor in the Special Education Program of the Department of Counseling, Kinesiology, and Special Education at the Gordon T. and Ellen West College of Education at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. She is the author or coauthor of several books, including the Corwin title (with John F. Dowd) Taming the Time Stealers: Tricks of the Trade From Organized Teachers. Gore received undergraduate and master’s degrees from Eastern New Mexico University and a doctorate from the University of Arkansas.

Review :
"This updated text provides a wide range of instructional tools that are cleverly introduced, well-referenced, and clearly presented. It provides an informative and practical introduction to preservice teachers who are preparing to work with older students. At the same time, it offers an excellent refresher for practicing teachers by providing some new and fresh approaches that can be incorporated into everyday inclusive classrooms. I expect this book to become bookmarked and dog-eared from both initial use and subsequent reference by serious educators." -- Jean Lokerson, Faculty Emerita, School of Education