Product Overview

This bundle consists of Marilyn Friends best-selling book, Specially Designed Instruction and her best-selling laminated guide, Specially Designed Instruction.

This new book by co-teaching guru Marilyn Friend, author of Co-Teach!, focuses on ensuring that students with disabilities in co-taught classes are receiving the special education services to which they are entitled. It reflects the most recent research and recommendations of how to design, deliver, and evaluate specialized techniques students need to improve their learning outcomes. Specific topics include

the basis in law and meaning of specially designed instruction (SDI),
the process special educators use to select SDI and provide it as part of co-teaching,
examples of SDI across subject areas and grade levels,
SDI for student behavior, and
technology-based resources to support co-teachers as they teach their students.

Each chapter includes discussion questions and activities.

Co-teaching has evolved over the past four decades. Today, it is conceptualized as a service delivery option designed to accomplish three goals: (1) access to the general curriculum; (2) education in the least restrictive environment (LRE); and (3) improved student outcomes (Friend & Barron, 2021; King-Sears, et al., 2021; Losinski et al., 2019). In co-taught classes, attention is focused on the quality of instruction for students with disabilities in co-taught classes. The expectation is that co-teachers provide research-based specialized instruction because doing so enables students to reach state academic standards and prepares them for adult life.

This guide is a roadmap to help teachers, administrators, other school staff, and parents understand the requirements for specially designed instruction (SDI). It outlines versatile and validated strategies and techniques well-suited to co-teaching, although it is a small sample of the many SDI interventions available.

Sections include: