TQ Connection
Bringing Together Special Education and General Education

Inclusive Practices Resources

Access to a high-quality education is essential for students to meet the academic requirements of both No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA). Opportunities for students to access and participate in the general education curriculum are both integral to this success and largely dependent on the relevant competencies of general and special education teachers. This topic area provides a resource that emphasizes instructional strategies designed to enhance access to the general education curriculum.

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Reports

Teacher Preparation to Deliver Inclusive Services to Students With Disabilities
This Issue Paper presents a brief review of the legal and policy foundations and best professional practices for inclusive services. It also discusses the key components of inclusive services that should be incorporated in teacher preparation at the preservice and inservice levels and offers an Inclusive Services Innovation Configuration, which can be used to evaluate general and special education teacher preparation and professional development programs.

Other Resources

The Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
This national center is designed to improve student learning through the use of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) via the use of technology, media, and materials. UDL improves access to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities.

The Center on Instruction
This national center is one of five content centers serving as a resource for the U.S. Department of Education Comprehensive Centers. This center offers information on K–12 evidenced-based instruction in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learners.

Association of Curriculum and Development (ASCD)
ASCD is a nonprofit organization that addresses teaching and learning and shares best practices in professional development, educational leadership, and capacity building.

National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum (NCAC)
The Office of Special Education Programs established NCAC in 1999. This center was created to provide guidance on how new curricula, instructional strategies, and policies can be combined to improve access and progress in the general education curriculum for students with disabilities.

Doing What Works
The U.S. Department of Education created the Doing What Works website as a resource for teaching in the implementation of effective educational practices. This website offers practice guides developed to evaluate the research on educational practices.

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP): Ideas That Work
OSEP designed this website to provide easy access to information from research to practice initiatives that address the provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. This website includes resources, links, and other important information that supports OSEP's research on practice efforts.

What Works Clearinghouse
The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences established the What Works Clearinghouse to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with scientific evidence of what works in education. This website provides a set of easily accessible databases and reports with reviews of what works in education.

Special Education Resources for General Educators (SERGE)
The purpose of this project is to offer general education teachers quick access to the knowledge and skills required to provide access and progress to students with disabilities in the general education curriculum/classroom.

The Access Center:

• Information and Resources on Coteaching
  
• Information and Resources on Differentiated Instruction
  
• Information and Resources on Universal Design for Learning
  

The Access Center was a national technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs. Its mission was to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities. Although the center is no longer funded, its resources available online and on the website continue to be maintained.

National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators (NCITE)
The purpose of this national center is to gather information about the use of technology, media, and materials to provide access to the general education curriculum for students with disabilities.

Collaborating With Families OnLine Modules (IRIS Center)
These online modules provide information on strategies educators can use to engage all families in their school.

 

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