Joyful Learning: Active and Collaborative Learning in Inclusive Classrooms » (1st Edition)

Dr. Alice Udvari-Solner is a national consultant in education and holds an appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction. The graduate and undergraduate courses she teaches on the topic of accommodating diverse learners in general education settings are integral to the elementary, secondary, and special education teacher certification programs. Differentiation, the design of effective curricular adaptations, collaborative team work among educators and paraprofessionals, and systems change toward inclusive education are areas that are central to her research and teaching. Dr. Udvari-Solner recent research has focused on the development of the Universal Design Process for Differentiation - a method used to promote co-planning among educators to design responsive strategies for diverse learners.

This resource for inclusive classrooms offers strategies for engaging all students in discussion, debate, creative thinking, questioning, and teamwork and includes classroom-tested examples and reproducibles.

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
1. Building Teams and Communities
That's the Story of My Life!
Group Resume
What Is It?
We All Own the Problem
Pass the Compliment
Two Truths & a Lie
It's a Small World
Makin' Mottos
One Step Ahead
Once Upon a Time
2. Teaching and Learning
Walk It to Know It
Fishbowl Tag
Carousel
Novice or Veteran?
The Walking Billboard
Dinner Party
The Company You Keep
Classify, Categorize, and Organize
Collective Brainwriting
Professor Paragraph
3. Studying and Reviewing
Moving to the Music
Popcorn
Toss-a-Question
Guess Who?
Hot Seat
Say Something
Cracking the Code
Match Game
Paper Bag Interviews
Human Continuum
4. Creating Active Lectures
All Together Now!
Share & Compare
Stand and Deliver
Chants & Rants
The Whip
Numbered Heads Together
Take My Perspective, Please!
Lecture Reflections
Stop the Lecture & Start the Drama
Roundtable
5. Assessing and Celebrating
Are You Game?
Desktop Teaching
Gallery Walk
A Is For ______
Top Ten Lists
Catch!
Sixty-Second Commercial
Collaborative Quiz
Human Treasure Hunt
Act Like It!
References
Index