1st Edition
Finding a Place for Every Student Inclusive practices, social belonging, and differentiated instruction in elementary classrooms
Based on extensive experience with students and her book Students at Risk, author-educator Cheryll Duquette offers an extensively revised text in Finding a Place for Every Student:
Inclusive Practices, Social Belonging, and Differentiated Instruction in Elementary Classrooms. With a new focus on social belonging, this comprehensive resource includes tried-and-tested ways to work with students with exceptionalities, including autism, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, mental health issues, learning disabilities, behavior challenges, trauma, intellectual disabilities, visual and hearing impairments, giftedness, and low-incidence disabilities. Case studies illustrate how differentiated instruction can successfully work in real classrooms. Easy-to-implement instructional strategies with accompanying reproducibles make it simpler than ever to find a place for every student.
Chapter 1: Developing Student Belonging
Chapter 2: Differentiated Instruction
Chapter 3: Observing Students
Chapter 4: Formulating Goals, Developing Strategies
Chapter 5: Implementing and Reviewing the Action Plan
Chapter 6: Learning Disabilities
Chapter 7: Behavioral Disorders
Chapter 8: Giftedness
Chapter 9: Developmental Disabilities
Chapter 10: Metal Health Disorders
Chapter 11: Sensory Impairments
Chapter 12: Other Disabilities
Chapter 13: Working with Parents
Chapter 14: Smooth Transition Planning
Biography
Cheryll Duquette is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. Her research focuses mainly on inclusive education. For over 10 years, Cheryll taught students with exceptionalities in general education and special education classrooms at both the elementary and secondary levels. As a workshop leader, Cheryll has worked with teachers from China, as well as in Morocco, the Middle East, and Tanzania. Cheryll lives in Ottawa, Canada.
