Practical strategies for teaching K-12 social studies in inclusive classrooms

With the national push towards inclusion, more students with disabilities are being placed in general education settings. Furthermore, when placed, more students with disabilities are entering social studies classrooms than any other content area. Classroom teachers are being asked to "reach an...

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Other Authors Lintner, Timothy (Editor), Schweder, Windy (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, 2011.
SeriesInternational social studies forum, the series.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615926
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-589-9
Physical Description1 online resource (viii, 102 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Timothy Lintner and Windy Schweder
  • Chapter 1. Social studies teachers' beliefs and practices for teaching students with disabilities: A progress report / Jeff Passe and Ashley Lucas
  • Chapter 2. Knowing your students / Windy Schweder
  • Chapter 3. Universal design for learning and social studies / Kimberly Pawling
  • Chapter 4. Voices from the high school classroom: Teaching social studies in an inclusive setting / Amy Matthews
  • Chapter 5. Maximizing social studies learning for all with peer tutoring and learning strategy information / Thomas E. Scruggs and Margo A. Mastropieri
  • Chapter 6. Toward an inclusive social studies classroom / Darren W. Minarik and David Hicks
  • Chapter 7. Voices from the elementary school classroom: Teaching social studies in a general education setting / Kay Usher
  • Chapter 8. Technology in the social studies for students with disabilities / Cynthia M. Okolo, Emily Bouck, Anne Heutsche, Carrie Anna Courtad, and Carol Sue Englert
  • Chapter 9. Teaching social studies through big ideas: A strategy for all students / Timothy Lintner.