Creating an Inclusive School

Book Overview

As the percentage of students with disabilities continues to increase, you can make sure your school provides the least restrictive environment for these students by using this updated guide to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416600493
• ISBN13: 9781416600497
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: ASCD
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

MUST READ

This book really helped me as a special education teacher to get some really great ideas on how to make inclusion work in a school that hates it. It was clear, open and honest. It also gave some really practical how-to's as well. I also found the real life stories to be inspiring. I think that without this book and books like it the paradigm shift to inclusion would be difficult.

An excellent overview and resource guide

Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Creating An Inclusive School is the collaborative editorial effort of education specialist Richard A. Villa and special education credential and masters programs coordinator Jacqueline S. Thousand (College of Education, California State University, San Marcos). Inclusive education, loosely defined as a process by which schools strive to give an education to all students with disabilities in such a manner that the differently abled students are not excluded from the general student body or separately schooled as little as possible, is described and presented as more than a series of strategies; it is a belief system that promotes and optimum educational environment for all. Individual essays by a diverse assortment of experts discuss such issues as the rationales for creating and maintaining inclusive schools, promising practices that foster inclusive education, practical advice concerning inclusive education, "voices of inclusion" individual and community testimonies. An excellent overview and resource guide especially recommended for teachers, principals, and other educational professionals.

One of the best guides to creating truly inclusive schools

This book provides all the answers for people who think inclusion can't work--that it's too expensive, that parents of typically-developing kids will reject it, that severely disabled kids won't get anything from it. While I appreciated all the "how-to's" and a clear description of the philosophy behind true inclusion, I found most inspiring the true stories of how children with very involved disabilities grew, learned and became friends with their classmates through an effective inclusion model.This is a must-read for both parents and educators.