Full Description
Create inclusive educational environments that benefit ALL learners!
As schools become more diverse with students of differing abilities and needs, this self-reflective and action-oriented guide helps you create and support more inclusive schools and classrooms that intentionally educate all students. Using the Five Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency as a roadmap, this book presents:
Students' learning differences as just that - differences rather than deficits
Strategies that show you how to break though the common barriers to culturally proficient and inclusive schooling
Assessments that gauge your awareness and show you how to best serve every student's needs
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I: Commitment to ALL!
Chapter 1: What are Equity and Access Gaps? Why do They Persist?
Chapter 2: Using the Tools of Cultural Proficiency and the Vision and Practices of Inclusive Education as a Conceptual Framework
Chapter 3: Barriers to Culturally Proficient Inclusive Education
Chapter 4: Overcoming Barriers and Creating Opportunities for Learning
Part II: How to Become Inclusive Using the Five Essential Elements of Cultural Proficiency
Chapter 5: Assessing Cultural Knowledge Through Authentic and Differentiated Strategies
Chapter 6: Valuing Diversity Through Inclusiveness
Chapter 7: Managing the Dynamics of Diversity Through Collaboration, Creative Problem Solving and Conflict Management
Chapter 8: Adapting to Diversity Through Advocacy and Universal Design for Learning
Chapter 9: Institutionalizing Cultural Change
Chapter 10: Engaging in Action: When All Means All
Resource A: Book Study Guide
Resource B: Cultural Proficiency and Inclusive Schooling Books' Essential Questions
References
Index
