Teaching in Today's Inclusive Classrooms: A Universal Design for Learning Approach

Great price and the book is in great physical shape. My only complaint is that it REEKS of cigarette smoke. Other than that a great rental and a great price.

This book contains great strategies to help ALL students achieve academic success. All teachers should read this book.

Good book and clean

Good condition... didn't have to purchase.

This book has an unusual Kindle format. I cannot use Kindle Cloud or a Kindle E-Reader. For me, this means only having access to the book when I am at a PC on which I have installed Kindle for PC. In addition, the page scrolling is awkward. If I scroll to the bottom of a page, it jumps entirely to the next page rather than showing me half of each page, and scrolling up takes me to the top rather than the bottom of the previous page. I have not found a way to change the scroll settings. In addition, if I try to scroll rapidly through several pages in order to find a specific section, the screen goes blank because the program cannot keep up. I strongly recommend getting the paper version of this book rather than the Kindle version if both are available for the same price and shipping is not an issue. If price, instant shipping, electronic text searching, or another electronic feature are a consideration, the unusual Kindle format may be better in spite of its difficulties.The book itself varies in quality. Some sections are excellent. A few sections say the obvious in too many words. And a few sections introduce a topic without giving the uninitiated enough information to understand their significance without doing research on the side. Overall, this book provides an excellent and reliable starting place for someone who wants to get started in learning about it topic, and it provides many helpful suggestions for further investigation.

I read this book for an introductory class. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with the book's accuracy and attitude towards exceptional learners, even for an introductory text. I found plenty of glaring inaccuracies in the subjects that I've already researched, which makes me suspect that the descriptions of other subjects are likely full of errors, as well. This book did not provide a greater understanding of exceptional learners or inclusive education. The depiction of exceptional learners is inaccurate and opinionated.For example, the description of Deaf learners fails to include some of the most fundamental information about ASL and Deaf culture and instead includes oddly judgemental remarks about students who identify with Deaf culture. The authors are clearly not objective on this topic, and it is misleading to spend such a large portion of the section on deafness criticizing Deaf culture even though they do not provide any kind of general description of the culture or the historical events that lead to it. This is in major contrast to the description of blind learners in the same chapter, which contains many positive opinions about blind people in general and includes basic information about braille, notably successful people, and some history.In addition, the description of ADHD is scientifically inaccurate and contradicts the most well-known research on the disorder. It's description of the characteristics and effects of the disorder does not at all match what the top researchers describe as the fundamental nature of the disorder. Instead, the book relies on an old-fashioned, stereotyped portrayal of ADHD. Many educational texts are able to point out the differences between educational policy and current research and offer guidance on reconciling the two, but this text appears to discard scientific research and treat even the most generalized and overly rigid policy as biological fact.Although the text claims to focus on UDL and on serving "all" students, it frequently takes on a "student-as-problem" tone. It seems more interested in portraying the inconveniences caused by exceptional learners as the main challenge while engaging in blanket statements about how miserable or difficult it must be for some categories of exceptional learners. As a (successful) exceptional learner myself, the book was in turns alienating and exasperating. Out of the twelve or so educational textbooks I've read so far, it was the least inclusive, the least accurate, and the least useful.

Great layout, easy to read book. Will likely keep instead of selling to recoup initial cost. Very informative book. Its content will stay with me throughout my career.

The book came just like it said and a couple days early.