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Joyful Learning
Active and Collaborative Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms

Second Edition (Revised Edition)


June 2017 | 264 pages | Corwin

Discover motivating, personalized learning strategies that all of your students will love!

Build an active, responsive, and inclusive classroom where every student benefits. Through step-by-step directions, reproducible handouts, classroom-tested examples, and specific guidelines, teachers and teacher teams will discover 60 activities to help you:

  • Quickly and easily modify and adapt design instruction for diverse learners, including students with cultural, language, learning, physical, or sensory differences
  • Transform lectures and whole-class discussions through dynamic, student-centered learning experiences
  • Immerse students in discussion, debate, creative thinking, questioning, teamwork, and collaborative learning
  • Flexibly co-plan and co-teach with a variety of school professionals

The revised edition of this bestselling resource includes step-by-step directions, reproducible handouts, classroom-tested examples, and specific guidelines. Discover quick and easy ways to help all learners participate, contribute, and learn with this unique guide!


"This book is a gold mine of strategies to increase engagement, participation, and JOY for all students in inclusive classrooms. The examples and implementation suggestions make is easy for K-12 teachers to select and apply strategies that make learning meaningful and fun."

—Barb Gruber, Inclusion Facilitator

Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education

"One of the many things I appreciate about this new edition is the range of its examples. Regardless of grade level or subject area, all K-12 teachers will find relevant gems here.”

—Kelly Chandler-Olcott, Associate Dean for Research

Syracuse University


 
Preface
 
About the Authors
 
Introduction: Facilitating Inclusive Education Through Active and Collaborative Learning
 
Chapter 1. Building Teams and Classroom Communities
 
Chapter 2. Teaching and Learning
 
Chapter 3. Studying and Reviewing
 
Chapter 4. Creating Active Lectures
 
Chapter 5. Assessing and Celebrating
 
A Final Note
 
References
 
Index

"One of the many things I appreciate about this edition of Joyful Learning is the range of its examples. Regardless of grade level or subject area, all K-12 teachers will find relevant gems here. Alice and Paula provide lots of details to help readers figure out how to make the various approaches work, but their recommendations are descriptive, rather than prescriptive and grounded in an abiding respect for teachers as decision makers. I love that these authors insist on the presumption of professional competence for adults just as they do for young people with and without disabilities."

Kelly Chandler-Olcott, Associate Dean for Research
Syracuse University, School of Education

"This book is a gold mine of strategies to increase engagement, participation, and JOY for all students in inclusive classrooms. The examples and implementation suggestions make is easy for teachers K-12 to select and apply strategies that make learning meaningful and fun."

Barb Gruber, Ph.D., Inclusion Facilitator
Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education

"This book is one of few that provides activities for practice in a classroom moving towards inclusivity.  It is well-grounded in a clear conception of inclusivity that allows for these activities to be enacted with efficacy.?"

Sarah L. Schlessinger, Assistant Professor of Adolescent Inclusive Education
Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus

"Joyful Learning is so easy to use—like a comfy cookbook of idea-generators for when a teacher needs fresh and new ideas for specific purposes."

Melissa Sherfinski, Assistant Professor of Elementary and Early Childhood Education
West Virginia University
Key features
  • Practical strategies and techniques for implementing differentiated instruction and active learning
  • Resources that help teachers engage students in discussion, debate, creative thinking, teamwork and collaborative learning
  • Targeted to all K–12 teachers, regardless of their background in special education
  • Detailed directions, reproducibles, and guidelines for instruction

Sample Materials & Chapters

Part 1 Introduction

Chapter 1


For instructors

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