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Roberts, Donald L. – Education, 1984
Defines the ideal classroom environment and compares it with the effective clinical supervision situation (one-to-one encounter) and determines that the two are more similar than contrasting. Urges educators and their supervisors to create ideal teaching/learning environments based on the premise that people learn what they live and experience.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Definitions, Humanistic Education, Individualized Instruction

Graves, Michael F.; Braaten, Sheldon – Preventing School Failure, 1996
This article discusses how to use scaffolding in reading instruction for children with different reading abilities, including children with disabilities in inclusive settings. Scaffolding is described and a scaffolding model (the Scaffolded Reading Experience) is illustrated. The article also suggests possible program components for prereading…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Individualized Instruction

Voltz, Deborah L. – Preventing School Failure, 2003
This article explains the combination of instructional practices called personalized contextual instruction (PCI) and illustrates its implementation by a general education teacher, a special education teacher, and a paraprofessional working together in a multiage primary inclusive classroom. The PCI approach incorporates individual learning…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Practices, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education
California Association for the Gifted. – 1994
A differentiated curriculum can provide the basis for discovering, serving, and nurturing academic talent across California's diverse student population. Differentiation provides tools to vary the curriculum or instruction so that students who have already mastered given material continue to progress and students who have a particular interest in…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Curriculum Development, Educational Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Sheridan, Margaret K.; And Others – 1995
This book presents the theory and application of the Supportive Play Model (SPM), an intervention approach that incorporates best practices of the therapeutic, educational, and mental health fields. The model provides a systematic process for observing and understanding the play and development of young children with special needs and a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Decision Making, Disabilities

Dowds, Barbara Noel; And Others – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1996
A collaborative model for special educators and parents to use in devising strategies parents can use at home for children with learning disabilities is described. A case study of a child whose parent tutored her using an individualized tutoring program designed by the special educator after the initial evaluation is presented. (CR)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Involvement
Burrello, Leonard C.; DiLaura, Nancy – 1994
This videotape and viewing guide present an emerging learner-centered paradigm of teaching and learning and contrast this new paradigm with traditional concepts. An associated guide describes the elementary school in the videotape, noting the full inclusion of 50 students identified as disabled, the team approach in which teachers are renamed…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum, Disabilities

Dyck, Norma; Sundbye, Nita; Pemberton, Jane – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1997
Presents a lesson-planning model for coteaching regular and special educators which is intended to guide planning for group and individual student needs simultaneously. The model involves a common theme topic and distinguishes among objectives, activities, and assessments that are either for all students, for most students, or for some students.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
Burrello, Leonard C.; DiLaura, Nancy – 1994
This videotape and viewing guide present an emerging learner-centered paradigm of teaching and learning and answer questions of why and how a staff changes its practices. The viewing guide describes the elementary school in the videotape, noting the full inclusion of 50 students identified as disabled, the team approach in which teachers are…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Innovation, Educational Principles

Hoyson, Marilyn; Jamieson, Bonnie V.; Strain, Phillip S.; Smith, Barbara J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Describes a five-step process by which preschool teachers can meet the individual needs of all children, including those with disabilities, while maintaining a group instructional format. The process links assessment to curriculum, has planned teacher-directed individualized group instruction, implements behavior management techniques, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Design, Data Collection
Cessna, K. Kay; And Others – 1993
This monograph offers six papers which present a model to assist in developing instructionally differentiated programming based on individual needs for students with behavioral disorders. The first three chapters focus on underlying philosophies. A paper by Myron Swize titled "Colorado's Needs-Based Approach" stresses that it is more…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Curriculum Development, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary School Students
Kame'enui, Edward J.; Simmons, Deborah C. – 1999
This book offers guidelines for designing the cognitive supports to instructional materials for students with disabilities in general education classrooms. Chapter 1, an introduction, describes the contexts of change, including the changing demography of learners, which has increased the curricular and instructional complexity that teachers face…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Beginning Reading, Curriculum Development, Disabilities
Peters, Joyce; And Others – 1993
This text was written as an outgrowth of 6 years' work with children aged 3-5 in the Child Development Center at Western Oregon State College, Monmouth, Oregon. The children attending this program included typically developing children as well as children with disabilities. A primary purpose of this book is to share the experiences and learnings…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Educational Practices
Kronberg, Robi; York-Barr, Jennifer; Arnold, Kathy; Gombos, Shawn; Truex, Sharon; Vallejo, Barb; Stevenson, Jane – 1997
This guide provides conceptual as well as practical information for meeting the needs of all learners in heterogeneous classrooms. The first six sections discuss the growing heterogeneity in today's classrooms, the rationale for differentiated teaching and learning, the changing roles of teachers and students, the importance of creating classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Disabilities