Restructuring for Caring and Effective Education: Piecing the Puzzle Together - Softcover

Villa, Richard A.; Thousand, Jacqueline S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557663866 ISBN 13: 9781557663863

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co, 1999

Synopsis

Reflecting the recent, extensive changes in special and general education, this new edition examines a range of timely topics as it explains the evolution of inclusive education over the past five years.You'll learn about curriculum, instruction, and assessment in inclusive classrooms strategies for collaborative teaming and co-teaching ways to empower and motivate students a framework for understanding and facilitating systems change Chapter-length case studies show you how a variety of districts have made inclusion work. Special "reflection" chapters provide firsthand accounts of how inclusive education affects different members of the learning community. Throughout, the editors' perceptive writing clarifies the integral roles of students, faculty, and families in creating and maintaining inclusive schools and classrooms.

About this title

Review:

"This book should be read by all who are interested in forwarding the incl"usive schooling debate to a further level. . . . It will help all to appreciate better what schools ought to be about.

About the Author:

Richard A. Villa, Ed.D., has worked with thousands of teachers and administrators throughout North America and the rest of the world in developing and implementing instructional support systems for educating all students within general education environments. Dr. Villa has been a classroom teacher, special education coordinator, pupil personnel services director, and director of instructional services. He has authored more than 70 articles and book chapters regarding inclusive education and has co-edited three previous books for teachers, administrators, and parents: "Restructuring for Caring and Effective Education: An Administrative Guide to Creating Heterogeneous Schools" (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1992), " Creativity and Collaborative Learning: A Practical Guide to Empowering Students and Teachers" (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1994), and "Creating an Inclusive School Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, " (1995). He has presented at numerous national and international conferences and is known for his enthusiastic, humorous style of presenting. Jacqueline S. Thousand has been a teacher educator since 1981 and has more than 20 years of experience in training teachers and providing technical assistance to schools to create inclusive educational experiences for children from preschool through high school. At the University of Vermont, she coordinated an early childhood special education teacher preparation program and one of the first Inclusion Facilitator graduate programs (1986-1996) in the United States. As the coordinator of the Vermont Homecoming Project in the early 1980s, she was a pioneer in developing instruction and curriculum modification strategies for including students with moderate and severe disabilities that came to be the staples of inclusive practice in the 1990s. With her move in 1996 to California State University San Marcos, she coordinates a teacher credential program that endorses graduates as general and special educators, thus enabling them to advocate for and support students with disabilities as either classroom teachers or special educators. In addition to directing the college's special education credential and master's programs, she continues her commitment to community development by working with leadership and staff of local schools to restructure special day class programs and move the teachers and students in these classes into the mainstream. She also works closely with families to make inclusive education communities a reality. She sits on the editorial boards of a number of professional journals and is past co-editor of Teacher Education and Special Education. She currently serves on the International Board of TASH (formerly The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps), an international advocacy association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and people who work in the disabilities field. Dr. Thousand has authored numerous books, research articles, and book chapters on practical how-to strategies for meeting the needs of all students in general education; adapting curriculum, instruction, and assessment; collaborative teaming; and creative problem solving.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brookes Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1557663866
• ISBN 13: 9781557663863
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 608
• Editor: Villa Richard A., Thousand Jacqueline S.