In an age of increased accountability and high stakes assessments, effective teachers:

a. should focus on students’ needs and differences.
b. should focus on what their students can do, not what they cannot do.
c. should realize that students with disabilities and those with gifts and talents have more differences than similarities to their typical peers.
d. who concentrate on their students’ deficits and difference are more likely to create successful inclusive classrooms.


ANSWER: b

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