ERIC Number: ED367071
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1993
Pages: 456
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ISBN: ISBN-0-944584-65-9
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Educational Approaches and Program Options for Integrating Students with Disabilities: A Decision Tool.
Research Triangle Inst., Research Triangle Park, NC.
This guide offers a framework for making sound decisions among the range of available choices to maximize the educational opportunities of integrated students with disabilities. The framework permits programs to be classified according to their approaches to intervention and general characteristics. A planning process is presented for use in program review, selection, and implementation. Sixteen programs are then described along the key dimensions presented in the decision-making framework, to demonstrate how program information can be extracted and synthesized so that informed decisions can be made. These dimensions include target population, implementation considerations, program effectiveness, and costs. The programs include: High/Scope Curriculum, Strategies Intervention Model, Tactics for Thinking, Direct Instruction, Mastery Learning, Learning Styles, SUCCESS, Student Team Learning, Classwide Student Tutoring Teams, Adaptive Learning Environments Model, Vermont Consulting Teacher Model, Teacher Assistance Team, Project RIDE, North Carolina Lead Teacher Model, Comprehensive Local School, and Coalition of Essential Schools. (Each program description contains a list of references.) (JDD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Consultation Programs, Decision Making, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Interpersonal Competence, Intervention, Learning Strategies, Mainstreaming, Mastery Learning, Program Costs, Program Descriptions, Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Teamwork, Thinking Skills, Tutoring
Sopris West, 1140 Boston Ave., Longmont, CO 80501 ($25).
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: Special Education Programs (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Research Triangle Inst., Research Triangle Park, NC.
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