Both Pre-K and K-3rd grade exceptional or talented children/students not only want but need more of an "accommodative" ambiance where their senses are given novel multiple-intelligences data so that they can continue to intellectually grow with respect to Piaget, Erickson, and Vygotsky's developmental schemes. Thus, to do this requires us to…

Tier 1, the first level of instruction in the RtI (Response to Intervention) framework, is designed to meet the needs of 80% of students within the regular classroom. The only way to accomplish this goal is to use differentiation. Differentiation is not a singular process; it is rather a complicated process of adapting instructional strategies so…

Many classroom teachers are still using the traditional teaching methods. The traditional teaching methods are one-way learning process, where teachers would introduce subject contents such as language arts, English, mathematics, science, and reading separately. However, the school improvement model takes into account that all students have…

With evolving eras in special education, an extreme concentration has been placed on accountability through high-stakes testing. In the past, only test scores of general education students were analyzed in most accountability efforts. Current laws, however, have extended accountability measures not only to include those students served in special…

This article demonstrates how the use of creative movement and dance offers effective instructional strategies to meet the diverse learning needs of students in an inclusive classroom. Every day in one multi-age, fully inclusive classroom, students are meaningfully engaged in learning through movement--they move to learn science, social studies,…

This essay comes from pondering the relationship, queried in the Call for this Special Issue, between the "language of diversity" and the "embracing of different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing" in the university. The issue of diversity is usually a sociological rather than an epistemological one--the access to and inclusion in higher…

Describes a Jewish Community Center's efforts to adapt Gardner's multiple-intelligences theory to a preschool special-education program. Since most students had moderate speech disorders, teachers decided to deemphasize linguistic expression in favor of the other seven intelligences. They created successful units exploring patterns and size…