Student Teaching in Your First Inclusive Classroom

A Comprehensive How-to Guide

Janet VanLone, Karen Robbie

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040422014
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education

As the first inclusive classroom guide for student teachers specifically, this book provides essential support as you navigate your student teaching placement and build the skills you need to support all students. With a focus on how you can effectively apply high-leverage practices in inclusive K-12 classrooms, the book covers a range of relevant topics including: how to understand the needs of students in an inclusive classroom, differentiated lesson planning and delivery, implementing evidence-based instructional and classroom management practices, carrying out individualized education programs, providing appropriate accommodations and modifications, and collaborating with other educators and families. Each chapter features suggestions for online resources, classroom activities to try, and questions for your own self-reflection, making this book a key resource for pre-service teachers working to obtain elementary or secondary teacher certification, as well as their university supervisors and cooperating teachers.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsements Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Meet the Authors
• Contributor Bio
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Student Teaching in the Inclusive Classroom
• Appendix A Introductory Triad Meeting
• 2 The Inclusive Classroom
• 3 The Classroom Environment
• 4 Positive Student Behavior Support Practices
• 5 Planning for Effective Instruction in the Inclusive Classroom
• Appendix A Lesson Plan Template
• Appendix B Lesson Preparation Template (For Scripted Lessons)
• 6 Instructional Delivery and Engagement in the Inclusive Classroom
• Appendix A GoReact Sample Assignment
• Appendix B Classroom Analysis: Lesson Delivery
• Appendix C Classroom Practices Video Self-Analysis Guided Reflection Tool
• 7 Collaboration in and Beyond the Classroom
• 8 Navigating Challenges and Looking Ahead
• Appendix A Classroom Practices Implementation Plan: Reminders for Starting Your Teaching Career