Bøger af Ochan Kusuma-Powell

The Inclusive Toolkit provides educators concrete tools and strategies to enable them to provide the most inclusive educational environment possible. The Inclusive Toolkit addresses many of the questions and "obstacles" that schools encounter when developing and implementing inclusive programs. The reader will come away from the Inclusive Toolkit with a better understanding of the common issues as well as strategies to overcome those potential problems. The Next Frontier Inclusion project also provides a professional network of over 100 international schools that are collaborative by nature and are a ready and willing resource of professionals and organizations dedicated to the vision of greater inclusion at schools around the world.

The authors argue persuasively that differentiation provides diverse learners with access to the curriculum and an invitation to learn. The first four chapters describe the foundations of effective teacher differentiation: knowing each student as a learner, knowing one's curriculum, developing a repertoire of research-based instructional strategies, and learning the skills of professional collaboration. Embedded in each chapter are practical strategies that teachers can use in their classrooms. Later chapters deal with special issues in differentiation, such as assessment, teacher cultural sensitivity, the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program and the use of classroom technology. The authors write from their perspective as career international educators.

This fascinating book, written by two experts in school improvement, is for teachers and school leaders who are looking for ways to raise the organizational intelligence quotient (OIQ) of their classrooms and their schools. It is ideal for those who perceive themselves as the facilitators of learning - for students, for colleagues and for themselves. If schools are to be transformed and transformative, teacher-learners will lead the way. Simplistic and superficial approaches to improving student learning simply don't work. School improvement isn't a technical challenge; it is an adaptive one. It requires a change not just in behaviors and skills, but in values, beliefs and even identity.