Inclusion

BRIEF SUMMARY

Inclusion is the educational practice of educating children with disabilities in classrooms with children without disabilities.  There are generally two models for inclusion: push in or full inclusion. “Push In” has the special education teacher enter the classroom to provide instruction and support to children. The push in teacher will bring materials into the classroom. The teacher may work with the child on math during the math period, or perhaps reading during the literacy block.  The push in teacher also often provides instructional support to the general education teacher, perhaps helping with differentiation of instruction.  “Full Inclusion” places a special education teacher as a full partner in a classroom with a general education teacher. The general education teacher is the teacher of record, and is responsible for the child, even though the child may have an IEP.

KEY POINTS

• Differentiation is an incredibly important tool to help children with disabilities succeed in an inclusive classroom. Differentiation involves providing a range of activities and using a variety of strategies for children with different abilities, from learning disabled to gifted, to successfully learn in the same classroom.
• For inclusion to succeed, special educators and general educators need to work closely together and compromise.

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