Quick Guide for Teachers – For all school grades
How to build an effective and inclusive IEP for the whole class?
In the style of a Teacher Training notebook, this book – suitable for all school levels – proposes 15 operational strategies for building an inclusive IEP and class.
BOOK STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS
The first part is divided into 3 sections in which the fundamental points of a truly inclusive IEP integrated with class activities are outlined.
Building a comprehensive IEP
Build the point of contact between the IEP and the class
Building the inclusive class
The second part reflects on the educational co-responsibility between all parties of the Operational Working Group (OWG), with particular attention to the involvement of the family and other relevant figures, as well as on ‘giving the pupil a voice’.
The third part outlines the characteristics of an inclusive, open and universal didactics, with forms of co-teaching between curricular and support teachers, and the activation of the class group resource, with forms of cooperative learning and peer tutoring.
The volume ends with a checklist that allows for self-reflection and self-monitoring of the principles and actions that make the IEP a truly inclusive tool for the whole class.
What to do and What to Avoid
In each chapter you will find:
Explanation of why it is important to put a specific action into practice
Description of the action
Operational indications
Expert advice
Read an excerpta from the book, which has been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:
THE AUTHOR
Sofia Cramerotti. Educational psychologist and pedagogist. For the Erickson Study Center she is responsible for the «Research and Development – Psychoeducational and didactic section». Author of various articles and books, she deals with individualized educational programming and Teacher Education. She carries out training, university teaching and consultancy activities on psycho-pedagogical and educational-didactic issues.
Dario Ianes. Full-time professor of inclusive pedagogy at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen and co-founder of the Erickson Study Center of Trento.
Flavio Fogarolo. Trainer, he deals with inclusive teaching. For several years he was the contact person for disability and SLD at the UST of Vicenza. He collaborates with Edizioni Centro Studi Erickson, and is the author of various publications on the design of educational games and compensatory materials.
Benedetta Zagni. Developmental and Educational Psychologist. Trainer and doctoral student in Psychological Sciences (DPSS – University of Padua) in collaboration with the Erickson Study Center. She deals with emotional well-being at school, cooperative learning, recognition and valorization of differences in the class.