The authors, professors of special education at the University of Washington, offer suggestions for easily implemented curriculum modifications that allow all children to participate, embedded learning opportunities to use in typical classroom activities, and child-focused instructional strategies that help students achieve individual learning objectives, including IEP goals. Examples are given for everyday classroom situations such as free play, book corner, and clean up. Reproducible forms are included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Learn more about the insights in this book in online training as part of MCIE's early childhood inclusive education series.Now available for viewing on demand!Updated for today's educators—especially those new to inclusion—the second edition of this bestselling guide is the lifeline preschool teachers need to fully include children with disabilities in their classrooms.Easy to use with any existing curriculum, including Creative Curriculum and HighScope, Building Blocks gives educators three types of practical, research-based inclusion strategies that promote progress in critical areas like behavior, emergent literacy, and peer relationships. A must for professional development, this revised edition helps teachers thrive in the era of accountability with NEW material that reflects the six years of changes in early education since the first edition. Teachers willdiscover how the Building Blocks approach aligns with OSEP outcomes to help teachers meet the federal requirements for special educationlearn everything they need to know about evidence-based practice and how to apply it in their classroomsprint more than a dozen helpful forms—including classroom assessments, planning worksheets, and child evaluation forms—with theconvenient NEW CD-ROMThrough clear and instructive vignettes woven throughout the book, teachers will also meet four young children from diverse backgrounds and learn from their teachers' examples of successful interventions. A perfect training tool for teachers and an ideal textbook for college and university courses, this revised bestseller will help today's preschool educators start all their students on the road to lasting school success.Promote inclusion and improve child outcomes through curriculum modifications that allow all children to participateembedded learning opportunities used in typical classroom activitieschild-focused instructional strategies that help students with individual learning objectives
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