Inclusive teaching in lower secondary school

This guide collects the works of some of the leading experts in the field of Special Educational Needs and provides a complete framework to learn more and work adequately with pupils with special educational needs in lower secondary school, and set up an effective and functional intervention with a view of inclusive learning for the whole class. Thanks to its theoretical-operational approach, it presents suggestions, strategies, and intervention proposals, thus offering the reader a useful tool to face the increasingly complex challenges that the school, in these delicate years, is called on to face.

5 sections

The volume is divided into 5 different sections that illustrate and guide the different phases that characterize the work with students who have special educational needs:

• The student: help the adult recognize, welcome and value the differences of each student and thus help in growth, through conduct oriented towards self-determination and the construction of a Life project.
• Design and personalization: highlights the importance of an individualized educational project that takes shape through the IEP and its four dimensions, the observation of the context for the creation of an inclusive learning environment, the identification of barriers and facilitators, up to the verification and evaluation phases.
• The classroom: explores the concept of school as a field of social action, in which everyone puts their own identity into play, and provides information on class management, also through cooperative and hands-on teaching.
• Strategies and methodological approaches: outlines a series of approaches and strategies for working with an inclusive approach and the need to individualize, personalize and differentiate, both on a theoretical level and on a practical and illustrative level.
• Materials: presents different operational strategies that use the necessary facilities and simplifications aimed at promoting visible inclusion for all pupils.

The Great Erickson Guides
The “The Great Erickson Guides” series was born from the experience of the Erickson Study Center with the aim of providing a series of complete volumes relating to the fundamental aspects of the various forms of Special Educational Needs present in our schools, from dysgraphia to dyscalculia, from dyslexia to autism. The result of the work of leading experts in the various fields of reference, each volume offers practical examples, insights and interviews on the most debated and current aspects of disorders.