The concept of inclusion intent to place students with disabilities in regular classrooms rather than isolated them in special education classes. The inclusion suggestion required that regular education teachers meet the needs of students with disabilities in order to provide an individualized education. Regular teachers are challenge to meet the academic needs of students with disabilities and provide special education services, therefore the importance of take part in the IEP team. 5.…
Inclusive steps taken within schools will ensure that all pupils feel valued, equal and safe in their environment. To do this making sure that you recognise, accept and celebrate a child or young person’s differences and similarities. Inclusion: to ensure all children and young people of and background, situation or ability level are able to participate fully in all aspects of their academic life. Inclusion is not about categorising of viewing everyone as a collective but more like assessing people as individuals and supplying them with the same opportunities as any other pupil. 3.2 Describe features of an inclusive setting for children and young people.…
An increasing number of students with disabilities like Autism Spectrum Disorder are being educated in inclusive classrooms due to federal laws such as Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) and No Child Left Behind Act (NCBL) mandating that all children are placed in a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment (LRE) possible (Camargo et al., 2014). Inclusion in special education can be defined as, “the education of students with disabilities together with their nondisabled peers” (Carson, 2015, p. 1398). Special Education professionals are now legally and ethically obligated to place students in classrooms with the greatest access to typically developing students and the general curriculum.…
Interview questions: I. What is your role and responsibility to the team, students, teachers, and families? II. What are the roles of the other members on the special education team and their responsibilities? III. What examples of inclusive practices does the team support?…
Inclusive practice Is an approach to teaching that recognises the diversity of students, enabling all students to access course content, fully participate in learning activities and demonstrate their knowledge and strengths at assessment. Inclusive practices include .. • Being approachable, welcoming and genuinely interested. • A setting having adaptive policies and procedures ie. a system exists where policies and procedures of a setting can be updated to ensure they enable inclusion. • Having a reflective approach to practice so that you can see how you handle and manage situations that involve inclusion.…
Inclusion is becoming a hot topic in the debate of special needs students in general and special education classrooms. Inclusion classes are classes that contain students with and without disabilities. These specific classrooms are made for any student no matter the strength or the weakness in the academic field. These particular classes are becoming more prevalent in the school systems because they benefit both students with disabilities and without. Inclusion classrooms were created for all of the students to feel equal in the academic field.…
Inclusive practice is an approach used in teaching that allows people to recognize the diversity of all pupils, enabling them to access content and allowing them to participate fulling in activities during their time in education. ‘Inclusive practice values the diversity of the student body as a resource that enhances the learning experience’ (Equality and Diversity for Academics, 2013). Children should be taught in the same class as their peers, as well as being able to experience the full curriculum. This is instead of being having the adapt to the needs of the setting. True inclusion involved a willingness of the setting to adapt to the needs of the child (Early Years, 2012).…
There are many differences between traditional schooling and a school with an inclusive model. Perhaps the most significant difference is that in an inclusive building there is a philosophy that every child regardless of having a disability or not is able to achieve and are held to a high standard. Due to this philosophy in an inclusive school the majority of students are served in general education classrooms rather than in a traditional school setting where many students with disabilities are pulled out into resource rooms or have separate facilities. Another key difference is that in a traditional school teachers are often in isolation especially those that teacher students with disabilities rarely interacting with one another. On the other hand…
The Disability Policy, implemented by the Department of Education and Training, Queensland (n.d –a) to ensure schools adhere to the Disability Standards for Education 2005, makes clear that schools need regular adjustments in place to ensure all educators teach towards inclusion and adhere to the Disability Standards. Teachers need to have the adequate knowledge, teaching strategies, and pedagogical methods to immediately address the diverse nature of the learners when creating an inclusive classroom (Foreman & Arthur-Kelly, 2014; Hyde et al., 2015). This means ongoing development in the areas including the revision of policies such as the Inclusion Education Policy Statement to ensure they are providing learning environments that are safe and supportive (DET, n.d -b). Development and training can be in the form of pamphlets, professional development days, staff meetings, or surveying teachers to raise concerns. With ongoing development and support, inclusive teaching strategies will emerge and sustain the inclusive school practices to provide the best for all students and support inclusion as a whole (Jordan, Schwartz, & Richmond, 2008; Thompson, et al.,…
In an inclusive classroom, there are always going to be some challenges the teacher must face when implementing different adaptations. Inclusive classrooms involve children who are ether typical developing or atypical developing. All types of children are involved in learning to work together and learn through different techniques. When having to make certain adaptations for specific students, some challenges can develop. One of the adaptions Ms. Diaz had to make was to provide a corner chair for Amy.…
Inclusion is defined by five features, which if applied correctly in the communities of racial minorities would properly include them in political and legal representation. Racial minorities should mobilize themselves through the institutions such as the church, vote for representatives similar to themselves in descriptive form which they can hold accountable, and assess the factors necessary to achieve the highest levels of democratic inclusion. Inclusion is defined by a “full access to participation, representation in important decision-making processes and institutions, influence in/power over government decisions, adoption of public policies that address group concerns or interests, and socioeconomic parity” (Hero, Wolbrecht, 2005, p. 4). Full access to participation is the first in illustrating the meaning of inclusion. A system of democracy that does not offer all of its citizens the means to participate is one that is not fully democratic.…
It is no secret to anyone who has attended; high school isn 't easy for those who attend. Students must learn to effectively navigate rigorous academic, political and social pathways. To take a wrong turn on one of these pathways is to tip the highly unstable scales from social inclusion to social exclusion. Social exclusion manifests itself in many ways: failing grades, poor attendance, isolation, and (as advertised most frequently in media campaigns) bullying. Bullying, imagineably, easily includes and leads to poor academic performance, attendance, and also varying degrees of isolation.…
According to Goodman, Hazelkorn, Bucholz, Duffy, and Kitta (2011), inclusive education is when students with learning disabilities are placed in general education classrooms. Inclusive education is one of the most controversial issues facing educators because of the mixed results regarding the effectiveness of these inclusive problems (2011). Inclusive education means that all students regardless of their strengths or weakness, or disabilities are included into a general classroom for their grade level (Obiakor, Harris, Mutua, Rotatori, & Alogzzine 2012). Students with disabilities are able to attend the same schools as their peers without disabilities, where they are provided with support in order to achieve the same curriculum (Obiakor et al.,…
Inclusive Education: To start off, I will touch on inclusive education. We have children whom have special needs which can be internal or external reasons, for barriers to learning. Therefore inclusive education means that every single child and learner has the right and must be accepted into the main stream of education. This would also include elder learners whom have not completed their education and so wish to come back to school to learn and finish what they have or haven’t started. Inclusive education is to promote equal opportunities to each learner therefore the main focus should be aimed at the diverse needs of the learner population.…
Inclusion is all for one and one for all. It is not being separated to attend to the needs that WE think these children need. Instead, it is providing them the social, physical, and emotional support that they need by being in the classroom with other students. Teachers need to remember with inclusion that there are multiple ways to represent, express, and engage in the material. We can learn from the students as well.…