Success for All Students in Mathematics, Science and

Technology:

Factoring Special Needs into the Equation

The Value of Using Inclusion In the Classroom

Helping Students with Diverse Abilities

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Collaborative Teaching….

a joint teaching model in which the general education teacher and the special education teacher share planning, teaching, and evaluation within the general setting.

Differentiated Instruction

is the act of teaching and reaching all the students in

your class

Reaching out to all students in the class and making their

learning experience a positive one.

•Sight

•Sound

• Hands On

•Repetition

•Paraphrasing

• Seamless – Teaching to student’s styles. (Different learning modalities)

• Group Work – Students getting along with peers.

Finding the shining star in each student

Our Classrooms Represent a Variety of Social Sub-Groups

within the School:

• IDEA – Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

• IEP – Individual Education Program• LRE – Least Restrictive Environment

(Students have the opportunity to interact with and be educated with students who do not have disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate)

Classroom set up:

• Technology - laptop cart, promethean board, projector, weather bug

• Positive signs and messages - posted around room and on entrance door.

• Music - calm music while doing projects • Animals - a variety of animals in the room.

Respect to the individual students (concerns and fears), students learn to respect animals and develop an awareness of change, student aids are responsible and maintain a commitment to the program.

Classroom set up:

• Programs – Adopt a species• Plants - Greenhouse• Stamps or stickers – positive

reinforcement for completed assigned work

• Enforcing positive attitudes throughout the class.

• Developing good communication skills.

Classroom set up:

• Disruptive students can be pulled aside/outside and the situation can be addressed without losing time.

• Make up school work if they have occasionally missed class

• Field Studies – Examples: Merrill Creek Reservoir, Mt Tammany, Great Swamp Environmental Site, Sandy Hook – pollution and beach clean up, recycling.

Sites We Use In Class

• www.ideportal.com

• www.unitedstreaming.com

• www.explorelearning.com (gizmo interactive site)

• Google – webquest + topic

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Save the Endangered Species

Mrs. D. Zuccaro (Science Department)Mrs. J. Hughes (Special Education Department)

Field Study at Sandy Hook

Promethean Board and Laptop Cart

Galo – Our Rainforest Iquana

Billy – Our Blue Crowned Conure

Our Greenhouse

Our Task as Teachers:

TO PROVIDE QUALITY EDUCATION

FOR THE KIDS WE HAVE. NOT USED TO

HAVE, WANT TO HAVE, OR DREAM OF

HAVING, BUT THE KIDS WE HAVE!

Richard Villa, 1999

THANK YOU!

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