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ISBN# 188794364-1
Differentiated Instruction Guide for Inclusive Teaching

Publication Date: 2005
Anne M. Moll, Ed.D.
 

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About the Author

Dr. Anne M. Moll serves as an innovative Associate Professor at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1996, she had pioneered a cutting edge teacher preparation education program that promotes inclusive education as a professional and ethical responsibility for all teachers and administrators. All elementary and middle school pre-service teachers are required to complete certification in both general and special education , thus ensuring that they are fully prepared for serving all children. 

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Summary

Twenty years of research shows that 90% of the instructional or behavioral problems faced by teachers fall within the series of questions and their corresponding answers used in the step-by-step approach presented in this book.

This resource focuses on the specific questions and corresponding actions teachers must take for differentiating instruction in the general education curriculum for students with disabilities. It gives general and special education teachers, instructional supervisors, and members of the IEP Team explicit steps for ensuring that students have access to the general education curriculum-regardless of the environment where they receive services.

  • to identify barriers to learning
  • through a quick but in-depth analysis of - general curriculum - the student with a disability - instructional and assessment techniques
  • to develop ways of removing barriers
  • to implement specific instruction and assessment plans for inclusive settings and other learning environments.

    Foreword

    When the author and publisher of this book discussed its title, there was a concern that the use of the word "inclusive" would lead potential readers to believe that its content offerings were only for special education teachers. Most certainly, the word "inclusion" has become linked with the movement to educate students with disabilities in general education classrooms - where there is an increasing amount of evidence that these students achieve better than in more segregated special classes. For some teachers and schools, however, the word "inclusion" has become a focal point of debate and concern as they struggle with the many local, state, and federal demands for accountability and improved student outcomes. The difference between "inclusion" and "inclusive" goes well beyond one being a noun and the other an adjective. "Inclusive" is exactly the descriptor we want every classroom to attain. Simply put, an inclusive classroom is one that is welcoming and pedagogically capable of educating the naturally diverse population of students who arrive at its door.

    Differentiated instruction is the very foundation upon which teachers can create such classrooms. Developed with an appreciation that our nation's classrooms are becoming increasingly diverse, differentiated instruction provides teachers with a set of strategies to identify and teach to the unique combinations of individual strengths and needs that each child brings to learning. Educational strengths and needs arise from the child's ethnicity, culture, talents, family, disability(ies), prior learning opportunities, and/or community. As today's classroom is an amalgam of the individual strengths and needs of each enrolled child, today's teachers are in critical need of the very strategies that differentiated instruction provide.

    Dr. Anne Moll has made a significant contribution to meeting this need. Grounded in her more than 20 years of teaching and serving as a teacher educator, Differentiated Instruction Guide for Inclusive Teaching, is a step-by-step, practical, how-to guide for teachers in developing and refining inclusive, high-performing classrooms. Throughout, Dr. Moll serves as a patient coach to her readers; offering case studies, reflective exercises, and tools that produce ready success and gratification. Through her Essential Curricular Questions and Essential Student Questions, Dr. Moll steers teachers in (1) determining the critical instructional requirements of the curriculum, (2) identifying strategies for engaging each child in the intended learning, and (3) implementing lesson plans that meaningfully engage all students - regardless of his/her individual strengths and needs - in effective learning. It is hard to imagine our nation's schools achieving the lofty purposes of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act or the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 without every teacher understanding and practicing the principles of differentiated instruction. This book makes the "gift of differentiated instruction" more accessible to every teacher.

    David P. Riley, Ph.D.
    Executive Director, Urban Special Education Leadership
    Collaborative Education Development Center, Inc.
    Newton, Massachusetts