Education Law

Co-Teaching an Effective Stratgey to Support Inclusion

By Charles Fox

After three decades of IDEA being the law, in one form or another, the benefits of inclusion should be well known and understood by all. Unfortunately, that is just not the case, and the benefits of educating children in a LRE seem to be brand new to many. Here is an article from Barbara Glaeser, a thoughtful teacher in Washington D.C. (not an easy place to be a teacher), extolling the virtues of co-teaching to support inclusion for students with disabilities. Her presentation material includes school-based data that demonstrates the profound effects of inclusion on student achievement. Download Co-teaching_presentation.pdf. With lots more teachers like Ms. Glaeser perhaps the significant benefits of inclusion for all  stake holders in schools will be accepted as a matter of course, and not as a point of ongoing controversy.

Full post as published by Special Education Law Blog on July 13, 2008 (boomark / email).