Practical Strategies for Managing a Diverse Classroom, K-6: The Teacher's Toolkit

Your Teacher Toolkit for Better Teaching and Learning

Every educator needs a toolkit of strategies to ensure that students of different abilities, backgrounds, and learning profiles achieve success in the classroom. Rather than requiring busy educators to read copious amounts of research and theory first, Practical Strategies for Managing a Diverse Classroom flips the script, providing the answers and tools you need up-front so you can implement them immediately. Inside, you'll find:

• Powerful vignettes and common scenarios found in any inclusive classroom
• Concrete strategies for each classroom scenario
• Research and evidence for each strategy, explaining how and why it works
• An exploration of cutting-edge topics such as co-teaching, cooperative learning, applied behavior analysis, SEL, and more
• Additional resources, applications, and activities for book studies or for educators who want to go deeper into the topics that appeal to them the most

Written by a team of experienced educators with varied backgrounds, Practical Strategies for Managing a Diverse Classroom offers practical strategies for effective teaching and learning, better classroom management, and strengthened student engagement.

Wendy W. Murawski, Ph.D., MBA, MEd, EdS, is the Executive Director and Eisner Endowed Chair for the Center for Teaching and Learning at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), where she is also a Full Professor in the Department of Special Education and the Director of SIMPACT Immersive Learning. Dr. Murawski is the national Past President of the Teacher Education Division (TED) of CEC and an internationally known speaker and author, presenting in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America. Her research focuses on co-teaching and inclusive practices nationally and internationally. She has published extensively around inclusive education, co-teaching, collaboration, and Universal Design for Learning, to include 18 books and numerous chapters, blogs, and peer-reviewed articles. She is the CEO of 2Teach^Ò Global (www.2TeachLLC.com), an educational consulting company dedicated to promoting inclusive education around the world. In her personal life, Wendy enjoys traveling with her husband, learning languages, reading, drinking merlot, seeing movies, going to Book Club, visiting her college-bound son Kiernan, and pretending she is going to work out.

Kennet Fröjd has for more than 30 years worked towards inclusion based on evidence-informed learning and teaching strategies. He has his main specialties in adapted physical activity and in teaching with a particular focus on sensory motor development.. Another specialty is stress management.

Fröjd has for many years taught his specialties; among other things directly at schools via professional development for staff. He has also presented and lectured in several European countries as well as in Africa, North America, South America and Oceania.

Parallel to the work for inclusion and learning – during the same period of time – Fröjd has also worked in various roles as director and with leadership for different groups and organizations, both nationally and internationally.

Jennifer L. Austin, Ph.D., BCBA-D has been applying the science of behavior analysis to improve outcomes for children and their teachers for over 20 years.  Both her research and clinical work focus on how behavior analytic assessment and intervention strategies can be applied in inclusive classrooms, with a specific focus on ensuring the behavior change process is collaborative and acceptable to both teachers and students.  She has worked with numerous schools in the US and the UK, focusing primarily on those in disadvantaged communities.  Dr. Austin served as Professor of Psychology and Head of Behavior Analysis at the University of South Wales in the UK before joining the faculty at Georgia State University in the US.  She has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles and is a former Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and Behavior Analysis in Practice.