Whole Schooling
The Journey Towards Schools
Where Diverse Students Learn Together Well
CHAPTER 12
Inclusive Academic Instruction Part II - Plan Inclusive Lessons and Units
Learning tools. Tools for analysis, discussion, and planning you may use in class, professional development, and in your own practice as a teacher.
- Strategies for multi-level teaching. Activity Tool 12-2 lists multiple strategies for multi-level teaching. Participants may review these indicating those they would like to try, sketching ideas about how they might start.
- A day of multi-level lessons. Ask students to work in small groups and develop strategies for authentic, multi-level lessons across all subjects for one day using Activities Tool 11-10.
- Rating multiple intelligences. Use Activity Tool 12-3 and have participants assess the degree to which they use multiiple intelligences in their teaching.
- Multiple intelligences planning circle. Using Activities Tool 12-4, participants may select a learning goal or theme for a series of activities and identify ways that they can help students learn using each of the multiple intelligences.
- Contextual elements of learning style. Using Activity Tool 12-5 request that participants review these element of learning styles and brainstorm strategies by which they might incorporate learning style choices in their instruction.
- Strategies for individualized differentiation. Participants may review the strategies on Activity Tools 12-6 a and b and identify approaches to use with a specific individual student.
- Levels of ability and multiple intelligences. Participants may use Activity Tool 12-7 to identify individualized differentiation strategies based on multiple intelligences.
- Multiple intelligences and adaptations. Using other intelligences to strengthen an area of need. Have students identify a problem area in learning of a student and place this in the middle of the Activity Tool 12-8. Then ask them to consider strategies under each of the multiple intelligences that might be used to support and bolster the problem the student is having.