Category Archives: Classroom Ideas

Strategies to Include Students: Individual Fingerprints with UDL

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Toby Karten

This video has an overview of how students’ unique fingerprints require educators to minimize the barriers and maximize the learning with flexible curriculum that offers more than access, but challenging work that fuels all students’ interests.  

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Universal Design for Learning

Posted on April 24, 2012 by Toby Karten

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a way for students with disabilities to access the knowledge and skills in classrooms. The UDL principles are based upon neuroscience with a belief that curriculum should be diversely presented by educators and expressed … Continue reading →

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Lessons to be Learned from CEC’s Yes I Can Ceremony!

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Toby Karten

These Wordles depict the most popular comments from Council for Exceptional Children’s Yes I Can Ceremony on 4/13/12 in Denver. They offer visual insights on how these remarkable young individuals achieved such incredible feats. YES, YOU certainly CAN! Congratulations to … Continue reading →

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Inclusion Insights

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Toby Karten

I just had the pleasure of coaching a group of Georgia educators. Collaboratively, we figured out ways to allow the research-based inclusion strategies to come alive in their classrooms. They creatively incorporated good teaching practices such as cooperative learning, technology, … Continue reading →

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Include the Students

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Toby Karten

Teachers arduously plan lessons, collaborate with colleagues, and jump through many pedagogical hoops to have their students to achieve the core standards. Yet, if the students display apathy toward the concepts taught, then the lessons occur within a classroom vacuum. … Continue reading →

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Inclusion Check!

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Toby Karten

Here are a few inclusion topics that you need to check out!   If you, your students, or your children enjoy this type of visual, check out this site and create your own!  

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Inclusion Connections

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Toby Karten

Inclusion classroom strategies that are consistently implemented from the early grades and onward yield excellent educational and lifelong dividends for students. Curriculum examples include increasing students’ metacognition before they forge ahead. Read on for some ideas that connect inclusion to … Continue reading →

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Beyond Physical Inclusion

Posted on March 26, 2011 by Toby Karten

Successful inclusion classroom practices marry academic, social, emotional, behavioral and communication skills. Inclusion in the classroom goes way beyond physical inclusion, if students are truly included. Inclusion means that we treat all students as integral members and honor their entering … Continue reading →

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Gimme 5: Inclusion Rules

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Toby Karten

Inclusion, although never a generic program, has basic governing rules. Like snowflakes, no two children are alike, but all students, regardless of their abilities benefit from organized, prepared and insightfully rich environments with individuals who propagate learners’ potentials. High expectations … Continue reading →

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