Cindi Neverdousky TAP – PSP Consultant Former Special Education Director,

1. Administrative Support of Inclusive Practices for Struggling Students With and Without Disabilities Cindi Neverdousky TAP – PSP Consultant Former Special Education Director, Middle School Principal, Teacher cindineverdousky@aol.com

2. Agenda for Supporting Inclusion • Why Inclusive Classrooms • General Overview • Steps to implementing a successful program • Training Teacher Teams • Matching Teachers • Scheduling students and teachers • Implementation of the program • Monitoring the program

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8. Preparing to Co-Teach Round Table Discussion Topics • What are my core beliefs? • What is important to me in the classroom? • What do I want to accomplish with my students? • What is important to me when I’m not teaching in the classroom? • What do I believe about learning? • What are my professional goals and teaching styles? • How do I relate to students? • How do I relate to other professionals? • How do I manage my classroom? • What are my strengths as a teacher? • Where do I need to grow? • What do I expect a co-taught classroom to look like? • Co-Teaching discussion topics: • How are we similar in beliefs, goals, and teaching styles? How are we different? • What do we want form our students that is the same? Different? • What do we expect our co-taught classroom to look like? • How can we support each other in our learning?

9. ARD Committee Decision DataIdentifying students for Inclusion • Review needs of students individually • Determine accommodations vs. modifications • Analyze the Date (TAKS, eligibility, CBA, observations) • Review behavioral interventions Student Accommodations Modifications Classroom Support Adapted Support Additional Class Test Modify Behavioral Peer Para Co Res Materials Technology Tutor Pull Other Room Curric.. Teacher Teacher Out Jane Small Oral None Contract Gen Ed Calculator After Smith Group Highlight Dictionary Schl Books Sat

11. Secondary Scheduling Teacher Teacher Teacher Self Cont. Para. Para. A B C Teacher A B

12. Matrix for Secondary Scheduling

15. Kinesthetic Learner Auditory Learners Visual Learners Pictures, diagrams, concept maps, symbolism, videos and other visual presentations. MindMeister http://www.mindmeister.com/ Bubbl.us https://bubbl.us/ Visuwords http://www.visuwords.com/ TeacherTube http://www.teachertube.com/ MyLearningTube http://mylearningtube.com/ Pics4Learning http://www.pics4learning.com/ Pictue History http://www.picturehistory.com/ KartOO http://www.kartoo.com/ Always learn better by doing such as: Projects, labs, note-taking, and hands on approaches. Interactives http://www.learner.org/interactives/ Flashcard Exchange http://www.flashcardexchange.com/ Google SketchUp http://sketchup.google.com/ Quizlet http://quizlet.com/ ClassMarker http://www.classmarker.com/ QUIA http://www.quia.com/ SparkNotes http://www.sparknotes.com/ Learn most effectively through: Lectures, oral presentations, talking out loud, music and background sounds. Natural Reader – Free version to read text that is stored on the computer. Paid version available. http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.htm Project playlist – Social music experiment makes it easy for auditory learners to access free music to play in the background while they learn. http://www.playlist.com/

16. Resources www.osepideasthatwork.org/toolkit/index.asp(Instructional strategies for teachers) www.coteach.com(Marilyn Friend – ‘Power of Two’ video http://dww.ed.gov/(What Works) Teaching Exceptional Children, May/June, 2004 Mastropieri, Scruggs, Graetz, Norland, Gardizi, and McDuffie 2005 Teaching Exceptional Children, Mar/Apr, 2001 Salisbury and McGregor (2002) Castagnera, E., Deciding What to Teach and How to Teach It, Education Resources Information Center, 1998 Motivating Students- 25 Strategies to Light the Fire of Engagement by Carolyn Chapman & Nicole Vagle The Highly Engaged Classroom by Robert Marzano & Debra Pickering Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lemov How to Differentiate Instruction in Mixed Ability Classrooms by Carol Ann Tomlinson, ASCD, 2001 Teaching Exceptional Children, May/June 2004 Teaching Exceptional Children, Mar/Apr, 2001 Deciding What to Teach and How to Teach It by E. Castagnera, Education Resources Information Center, 1998 Step by Step Training by Stetson and Associates Making Inclusion Work by Beninghof, 1999 Teacher’s Toolbox for DifferentiatingbyLindaTilton

17. Resources Differentiating the High School Classroom byKathie F Nunley, Corwin Press, 2006 Connecting Teachers Students and Standards; Strategies for Success in Diverse and Inclusive Classrooms by Deborah Voltz, Michelle Sims, and Betty Nelson, ASCD, 2010. How to Reach and Teach ADD/ADHD Children by S. F. Rief, (1993). Hoboken NJ: Jossey-Bass. Murawski & Dieker, 2004 York, et.al. 1993 Anderson and Krathwolhl, 2001 Mastropieri, Scruggs, Graetz, Norland, Gardizi, and McDuffie 2005 Salisbury and McGregor (2002) Cindi Neverdousky Consulting

18. About the presenter…………… Following years as Director of Special Education and in varied principal positions in the Fort Worth ISD, Cindi Neverdousky has served for the past year as a Professional Service Provider (PSP) supporting campuses who received the TTIPS grant. For the past three years, she has served as a Technical Assistance Provider and as an External Campus Intervention Team Member by supporting schools with chronic failure. Parallel to this work, she has partnered with districts such as Edinburg, Ft. Bend, Mercedes, and San Elizario in developing quality services in differentiation, inclusion, co-teaching, learning strategies, and data review/intervention for failure to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), specifically with special populations. Cynthia Neverdousky Willow Park, TX cynlyn19@aol.com