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DVD cover: Issues for Educators

 

 

 

DVD cover: Issues for Educators

 

 

 

DVD cover: Issues for Educators
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Intended Audience: Educators and Parents


Purpose: To highlight portions of A week-long Inclusion Workshop conducted in the Chicago area by noted inclusion specialists Dr. Marsha Forest, Dr. Jack Pearpoint, and Ms. Judith Snow.


Description: This series provides an Inclusion Workshop overview. It introduces inclusion to parents, educators, and communities. The presentation creates a basis for understanding individual and group dynamics. It demonstrates ways of analyzing a problem, mapping out the desired result, and finding ways to achieve that goal.


Together We're Better is highly motivating and offers a set of effective tools and strategies for fostering an inclusive environment.


Part I Introduction to Inclusion (59 Minutes)

  • The Four H's – Dr. Marsha Forest (11 minutes)
  • The Philosophy of Inclusion: ABC's and Two Roads: The Road to Exclusion and
  • the Road to Inclusion – Dr. Jack Pearpoint (23 minutes)
  • Thoughts on Disabilities, Differences and Giftedness – Ms. Judith Snow (25

minutes)


Part II Strategies (37 Minutes)

  • Curriculum of Caring (2 minutes)
  • Quaker Meeting Circle (12 minutes)
  • Qualitative Evaluation Procedure (3 minutes)
  • The Six Hats (5 minutes)
  • Circle of Friends (15 minutes)


Part III MAPS & PATHS (51 Minutes)

  • MAPS – Making Action Plans: A Long-Term Visionary Process and a Plan to Achieve the Dream and Avoid the Nightmare (24 minutes)
  • PATH – Planning Alternative Tomorrows with Hope: A Problem Solving Strategy, a Visionary Process, and a Plan to Get Where You Want to Be in One Year (27 minutes)

 

Institutional DVD Special Features:

  • Extra Interviews:
    • Jack pearpoint
    • Judith Snow
    • Marsha Forest
  • Excerpts from additional programs
  • Web Links

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"This affirmative and practical resource is excellent for staff training and community education on a timely issue."
-- Booklist

"...A wide range of encouraging and informative ideas..."
-- Video Librarian

"An inspiring and encouraging look at what can be done by dedicated, forward looking professionals... well done..."
-- School Library Journal

The Inclusion Series is an award-winning program, widely used by educators, professionals and parents world wide. Screened in workshops, university classrooms, parent-teacher meetings, in-service training programs, and in resource centers.

These programs inspire inclusion. They offer examples of inclusion of people with disabilities in real-life situations.

Produced and directed by acclaimed director Jacky Comforty in conjunction with the Illinois State Board of Education's Project CHOICES.