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Topical Link Collections / Inclusion / Improvement Strategies and Evidence-based Practice

Many publications offer recommendations about appropriate practices to encourage inclusion of all learners within the general education setting at all levels, from early childhood to postsecondary programs.

How to select, Administer and Evaluate the use of Accommodations for Instruction and Assessment of Students with disabilities (2005)

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) has produced several guidance documents related to accommodations in the classroom.

Strategies to improve access to the general education curriculum (2005)

This compilation of practices from the ACCESS Center includes computer-assisted instruction (CAI); Concrete, Representations, and Abstract Sequence of Mathematics Instruction (CRA or CSA); Differentiated Instruction; Mnemonics; Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS); professional collaboration; adapted texts; literacy rich environments; grouping strategies; learning strategies; Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM); and Functional Behavioral Assessment Systems. Each set of practices is described, including the student characteristics that are intended to be addressed, and the ways that access is improved are noted.

Teaching Matters

Teaching Matters: The link between access to the general education curriculum and performance on state assessments.

Curricular and Instructional Considerations for Teaching Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms (2000)

General education teachers are playing new and important roles in educating students with disabilities with the support of special educators, related services personnel, paraprofessionals, and other school staff and community members. Though teaching students with more and more severe disabilities can present challenges, general education teachers can have a major, positive impact on the lives of students with disabilities.

Grasping the Promise of Inclusion (2002)

This review of the historical background of inclusion considers the origins of special education, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, major court cases, and requirements of the 1997 amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act requiring that all children be considered for regular Also included are reviews of research on inclusion of special education students in regular classrooms and issues of accountability. Discussion of what inclusion is focuses on 14 things that inclusion is not and then describes several inclusion models.

Pathways to inclusive practices: Systems oriented, policy-linked, and research-based strategies that work (2001)

The publications developed by the Consortium on Inclusive Schooling Practices are targeted to helping build the systemic capacity of state and local agencies to provide inclusive educational services.