Teaching Students with Special Needs in the 21st Century Classroom

The inclusive schools movement has been around since the mid 1980s, yet many teachers find themselves ill-equipped to make the transition. This superb book offers information, guidance, and training ranging from history of the inclusion movement to recommended activities for use with students. The authors draw upon their personal experiences as classroom teachers and describe ways of implementing curriculum change, grading procedures, partnering with parents, and other key strategies to assist the teacher in setting up a successful inclusive classroom to meet the needs of all students in the 21st century.

The authors have written a useful and practical book that administrators and regular and special educators will find easy to understand. The chapters are brief and do not have to be read in sequence; it is possible to glean a great deal of information from isolated chapters. With inclusion as its theme, the book focuses on effective methods for preparing teachers and schools to include all students. Overall, the book is an impressive piece of literature that will enhance the reader?s knowledge of special education and prepare educators to meet the needs of students with disabilities in the 21st century classroom..., The authors have written a useful and practical book that administrators and regular and special educators will find easy to understand. The chapters are brief and do not have to be read in sequence; it is possible to glean a great deal of information from isolated chapters. With inclusion as its theme, the book focuses on effective methods for preparing teachers and schools to include all students. Overall, the book is an impressive piece of literature that will enhance the reader’s knowledge of special education and prepare educators to meet the needs of students with disabilities in the 21st century classroom.

Sally Cox Mayberry is a professor in the College of Education at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers. She was an elementary teacher for 15 years. Brenda Belson Lazarus has been a professor at Florida Gulf Coast University in Ft. Myers since the college was founded in 1997. She began her teaching career in general education classrooms at the elementary and junior high school levels.