Accessing the General Curriculum : Including Students with Disabilities in Standards-Based Reform

by Victor Nolet

• ISBN13: 9781412916493
• ISBN10: 1412916496
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Give your students access to the general curriculum and find better ways to assess their progress! How is your special-education curriculum impacted by the requirements of IDEA and NCLB? How can you improve student learning and retention to positively influence assessment results? What methods are available for determining your students? present level of performance? In this second edition of the best-selling Accessing the General Curriculum , Nolet and McLaughlin provide updated frameworks and strategies-with invaluable examples and flowcharts for fitting special education into the frameworks created by national standards and assessments. This invaluable resource provides K-12 educators with the support necessary to produce expected results from every learner. The authors begin with far-reaching legal implications and connect them with individual students to show teachers how to: Use curriculum as a map for guiding students toward achievement Understand learning research as a bridge to the learning-teaching connection Relate each student?s disability to his or her academic performance Design alternate assessment tools and curriculum Link goals, objectives, and benchmarks to state assessment criteria Affording special education students accommodations and modifications to their individual curriculum will improve their performance, enhance your ability to help them advance, and, ultimately, improve the evaluation of their progress throughout their academic career.

Author Biography

Margaret J. McLaughlin is Professor of Special Education and Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Exceptional Children and Youth, at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

Access to the General Curriculum: Why it is More Important Than Ever Before

The IDEA and Access to the General Curriculum

The No Child Left Behind Act

The Link Between "Standards" and "Curriculum"

A New Way to Think About Special Education

The Nature of Curriculum

Multiple Types of Curriculum

The Core Elements of Curriculum

What is the Purpose of Curriculum?

Curriculum Involves a Domain

Curriculum and Time

Finding the General Curriculum

Chapter Summary

The Learning-Teaching Connection

Learning Research and Implications for Teaching

Help Students Develop Meaningful Patterns of Information

Creating Experts

Teach to Improve Your Student's Memory

Help Students Attend to What You Want Them to Learn

Make Effective Use of Practice

Make Effective Use of Scaffolding

Help Students Manage Their Own Learning

Teach for Transfer and Generalization

The Learning-Teaching Connection

Assessment That Supports Access to the General Curriculum

Assessment and Decision-Making

What Will Typical Students Be Expected to Do During the Timeframe Addressed by the IEP

What is the Student's Present Level of Performance in the General Curriculum?

In What Ways is the Student's Disability Impacting Performance?

Is the Student Making Progress in the General Education Curriculum?

Access to Curriculum and the Individual Education Program

Curriculum Access on a Continuum

Universal Design for Learning

Multiple Means of Representation

Accommodations

Modifications

Accommodations and Modifications and Assessment

Special Education and Related Services

A Decision-Making Process for Creating Standards-Based IEPs

Instructional Assessment

Choosing the Standards and Identifying Supports

Creating IEP Goals, Objectives, and Benchmarks

The Relationship Between Objectives and Benchmarks

References

Index

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