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Inclusion Techniques for Special Needs Classrooms

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Inclusion Techniques for Special Needs Classrooms

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Adapting Classroom Structure

Some students in an inclusion classroom will require an adapted classroom structure. This may entail inclusion strategies such as changing certain physical structures in the classroom (such as desks) to accommodate students with physical disabilities, adjusting the seating chart so that a student with auditory problems can lipread more easily, or structuring the classroom time so that students with behavioral or learning disabilities feel more secure.

The most important adaptation you can make to classroom structure, however, is to foster a feeling of inclusion and diversity as a positive ideal in your classroom. Never condone put-downs or discriminatory remarks, encourage students to work together in diverse groups, and allow each student to shine in his or her own way.

Adapting Teaching Methods

In addition to changing the classroom structure, you will need to adapt your teaching methods depending on which students are included in your classroom. For example, it may be important for you to incorporate cultural experiences of ELL students into your curriculum, providing tactile manipulatives whenever possible, and practice concepts frequently while making sure to provide enrichment for students who have already mastered those concepts.

When you give students material to read, you may need to pre-teach difficult vocabulary before reading or teaching about a topic. You should encourage students to preview text before reading it (and provide instruction in how to do so). Write assignments or important points on the board, and provide extension activities for gifted students who finish reading earlier than their peers. You also may want to have different students read different amounts of the text, based on their abilities.

Adapting Classwork and Homework

Students with varying disabilities may need adaptations to their classwork or homework. Possible strategies for adapting these types of work include pairing or grouping students with various disabilities with other students who can compensate, allowing students extra time to complete classwork if possible, reducing the length of the assignment for students who cannot complete the entire task, and allowing some students to demonstrate their mastery through verbal responses rather than written ones.

Adapting Quizzes and Exams

If students' reading or writing skills are weak due to their disabilities, you may want to record classes as much as possible in order to allow students to study using auditory techniques. You can also consider allowing these students to dictate their responses (especially those students with visual disabilities). In addition, you can give some students additional time to complete quizzes and exams, hold some students responsible for less material, and provide notes or outlines for those students who have difficulty taking their own notes.

One of the greatest resources for innovative inclusion strategies will be your specialist teachers. Spend time consulting with specialists daily, weekly or monthly - depending on the level of modifications needed in the classroom.

This post is part of the series: Inclusion in Schools

Today's school systems are continuously moving towards inclusion, rather than homogeneous grouping. This series includes several articles on inclusion, including inclusion strategies, benefits of inclusion, and reverse inclusion.

1. Strategies for Using Inclusion in the Classroom

2. Inclusion for Special Education Students: Advantages and Benefits

3. What Do You Think About Reverse Inclusion?

4. Mainstreaming and Inclusion: How Are They Different?

5. Equality and Excellence: Inclusion in School

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Inclusion Strategies and Techniques for Mainstreaming Special Education Students

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Some students in an inclusion classroom will require an adapted classroom structure. This may entail inclusion strategies such as changing certain physical structures in the classroom (such as desks) to accommodate students with physical disabilities, adjusting the seating chart so that a student with auditory problems can lipread more easily, or structuring the classroom time so that students with behavioral or learning disabilities feel more secure.

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Classroom Management Techniques for Special Needs Kids

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Classroom Management Strategies - Individualizing the Interventions

Each student is unique and different in behavioral needs within the classroom. Interventions that address behavioral issues must be individualized and implemented with specific behavioral outcomes that meet the unique needs of special education students. The student's IEP (Individualized Education Plan) will present diagnostic behavioral concerns and the IEP team members may have shared outcome strategies in the FBA (Functional Behavioral Analysis) or the BIP (Behavioral Intervention Plan) if included in the IEP. However, it is the teacher in the student's classroom who must understand that students with special needs must be addressed individually when creating effective classroom management strategies for the classroom.
Monitor and Adjust
Oftentimes, teachers are asked to monitor and adjust expectations according to the students behavioral or learning disability. Students could have defined learning disabilities which require curriculum and instructional modifications to accommodate the learning needs of the students or they could have physical or emotional disabilities that require a different intervention or adjustment. The following strategies can create effective classroom management goals that are win-win for both teacher and students in the classroom.
The Strategies and Interventions

In designing effective curriculum and instruction to meet the academic needs of the student, create lessons that scaffold into smaller chunks of learning and instructional access. Students must be able to feel success in learning which translates into more on task behavior and less off task monitoring during the class period.

Provide collaborative peer pair sharing groups so that special education students feel valued and included in the learning process. Have expectations of constructive contributions within group projects so that all students understand that inclusion equals academic and behavioral accountability.

Use assistive technology or other learning tools to provide a diversity of educational aids that promote student opportunities to process and practice the learning objectives.

Monitor and adjust assignment expectations so that students can feel more win-win moments and fewer lose-lose moments when they may have difficulty understanding and producing academic and behavioral outcome.

Create classroom management plans that are doable with constructive consequences and adjustments for special education students.

Provide students with graphic organizers or a diversity of learning strategies to process and master learning chunks.

Create a classroom SIP (Student Intervention Plan) capitalizing on the unique needs of the student using input from the student on behavioral actions and re-directions needed to create academic and behavioral success in the classroom.

By providing special education students with high expectations to self-monitor academic and behavioral performance in the classroom, teachers are providing them with tools to understand and redirect their own behavior in more constructive and proactive ways that say win-win in learning and in life.

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Classroom Management Strategies for Special Education Students

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Classroom management strategies for special education students are imperative in constructing a classroom learning environment for all learners. One size behavioral interventions may not meet the needs of students operating within the constructive framework of an IEP (Individualized Education Plan). Each student is unique and different in behavioral needs and classroom management needs within the classroom.

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Music Therapist Teaches You a Great Song for Special Needs

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Instrument Inclusion in the Special Needs Classroom

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Instrument Inclusion in the Special Needs Classroom