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Equipping General Education Teachers to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners: Professional Development Guide

Create an Inclusive Classroom for All Students

Creating an inclusive learning environment requires understanding how to support diverse learners, including students with disabilities, and how to handle challenging student behavior. Yet there is often a gap between what is expected of general education teachers, and what professional development is being provided to help them be successful in meeting those expectations.

Providing targeted professional development around specific topics such as disabilities, effective intervention strategies, trauma, differentiated instruction, and more, can help better prepare general education teachers to meet the needs of all students. In this guide, we share some best practices and tips to help general educators overcome common challenges they face when creating an inclusive classroom.

Teacher helping students

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