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An overview of six curricular design issues that help ensure appropriate inclusive teaching.
Adapt Lessons to Reach All Students
| Principle | Criteria/Feature |
| I. Big Ideas Concepts, or principles that facilitate the most efficient and broad acquisition of knowledge |
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| II. Conspicuous Strategies Useful steps for accomplishing a goal or task |
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| III. Mediated Scaffolding Instructional guidance provided by teachers, peers, materials, or tasks |
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| IV. Strategic Integration Integrating knowledge as a means of promoting higher-level cognition |
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| V. Judicious Review Structured opportunities to recall or apply previously taught information |
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| VI. Primed Background Knowledge Preexisting information that affects new learning |
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For a summary of the Six Principles of Effective Curriculum Design.
*Excerpted from Toward Successful Inclusion of Students with Disabilities: The Architecture of Instruction by Edward J. Kameenui, and Deborah Simmons(1999).
