Inclusive Teaching: Creating Effective Schools for All Learners

This book is filled with ideas on how to practically meet the needs of inclusive education. "Stepping Stones" give suggested activities to find how "inclusive" your school is and ways to collaborate with other individuals within your school and community on the road to inclusive schools. This would be a useful tool to educators and parents, to discover ways to adapt academic instruction to meet the needs of all students, both general and special education.

I will be using this text for my graduate and undergraduate courses. It provides one of the best descriptions of an inclusive school environment that I have encounter in all the textbooks that I have reviewed. There are many practical tips and strategies for meeting the special learning needs of a variety of populations. It promotes a child-centered philosophy pervades. This is a great professional resource for anyone who wants to get a good overview of inclusive education.Andrew JohnsonMinnesota State University, Mankato

This book has a great core philosophical message. In addition, the authors provide a number of exmaples that teachers can use as they begin to implement inclusive practices in their classrooms and schools. Well done - I use this in my methods classes.

If you would like a comprehensive book on inclusion, I highly recommend Inclusive Teaching. Michael Peterson and Mishael Hittie do an outstanding job in covering all of the best practices you would like to see in inclusive schools. They highlight excellent strategies; from developing communities in schools to addressing the variety of academic abilities within a classroom. The text also provides examples to illustrate how these strategies are implemented in schools across the country. The book is further supported through a web site and Allyn & Bacon also provide a very useful instructor's manual. As both an educator and a parent of a young man with disabilities who has been included in public schools I believe this book provides an extensive source of information; I highly recommend this book for both general and special education teachers in public schools and also for use in higher education for teacher education courses.

Finally a text book that not only keeps you awake but has practical and solid advice. I love the places to visit sections. I have actually visited some of the sites and found them to add to the knowledge in the book. I also was very excited to find a text that did not debate the value of inclusion. The authors simply state with professional accuracy how to go about causing the schools to raise all of our children together. Parents could use the information to advise teachers, teachers can implement the steps to merge with state and federal expectations. My students will be talking about Peterson and Hittie for a very long time.