Assignment 302 Understanding and using inclusive teaching and learning approaches in education and training Gavin Hayden Word count 1,965 Task Ai Briefing document Produce a briefing document for a new member of staff who will be delivering classes in your specialist area embedding functional skills. The document should demonstrate your understanding of: A) The key features of inclusive teaching and learning (ref. 1.1) Inclusive learning is about ensuring all your learners have the opportunity to be involved and included in the learning process. It’s also about treating all learners equally and fairly, without directly or indirectly excluding anyone. Inclusion is about attitudes as well as behaviour, as learners can be affected by …show more content…
It helps you, the tutor, with fulfilling the lesson requirements if you can ascertain in advance any special learning requirements or needs your learners have during the time they are in your class. This may, for example, be access for a wheelchair, being aware if someone is dyslexic, if someone has particular religious beliefs which must be catered for or whether someone needs to take medicine at a certain time. Then, when aware of any special needs, ensuring that these needs are met in a caring and professional manner. D) Ways to engage and motivate learners (ref. 2.3) A learners’ reason for wanting to learn something new can affect their motivation. A learner who is self-funded and wants to learn for personal or job progression reasons is likely to be more highly motivated than some who been “told” to attend, sent against their will or who is not interested in the subject. Regardless of an individuals’ motivation, members of the group have a right to learn in an inclusive learning environment that is not marred by un or de-motivated learners. It helps the tutor to create and maintain a positive learning environment if they are aware of their learners’ motivations, as the less-motivated may have less focus and possibly be more inattentive, perhaps even disruptive, than other, more highly
Providing a rich and varied context is essential, tutors should utilize a range of different methods to engage all students interests and learning styles. Identifying and meeting the learners needs are important so that tutors can facilitate students learning and ensure that both the students and tutors meet the required goals. Each learner is unique and brings to the learning situation their own different learning style, knowledge set, past experiences and motivational levels. It is important for tutors to consider the level of knowledge and skill development attained by the learners prior to instruction through a variety of different types of assessment, in order to offer a high quality learning experience, delivered and resourced to suit the needs of the learner. Tutors can assess learner needs through numerous means, such as; informal and formal assessment strategies, pre-course interviews and learning style tests. This will allow tutors to tailor lessons and activities to support learners individual needs.
As a teacher when delivering any lessons planned we have to make sure that each students individual needs are met, so they will feel included in the lesson. “Inclusion is about creating interesting, varied and inspiring learning opportunities for all learners, ensuring all learners contribute and are never disadvantaged by methods, language or resources” Wilson (2008).
Inclusion is about ensuring that everyone has the equality of learning opportunities for all children and young people, regardless of disabilities or background. Meeting their needs is an important right which needs to be met, and children need to be seen be part of the community. Promoting including is important, valuing diversity is an important way of doing this, and by been open to others we can include everyone in activities in a way which doesn’t exclude anyone. A number of different policies and procedures are in place are in place to make sure that this is done. Legislation’s are legal documents that are put in place for setting to follow and offer guidelines for this.
Introduction This essay will attempt to highlight the importance of inclusive practice in the early years setting. As stated by (Hyder, T. and Jennings, J, 2009) ‘the best inclusive practice aims to build on existing good practice to create educational environments within which all children can develop and learn.’ Through evaluation of the various acts and legislation that are currently in effect to safe guard children’s well being. This essay will assess the impact upon children, if these legal requirements are not adhered too. There are many theories and key concepts that will be referred to in this appraisal, along with some examples of inclusive and non-inclusive practices.
Inclusive curriculum refers to the process of developing and designing a programme of study to minimise the barriers that students may face in accessing the curriculum. By focusing on the core requirements of a course it is possible to identify aspects of the curriculum that might prevent some students from achieving. The task is then to redesign the course to
The school considers inclusion to be an important part of its ethos. As a larger institution there are a variety of pupils’ from many different backgrounds, the school as a whole is diverse. It is vital the school provides a ‘secure learning environment in which they feel safe, secure, confident and able to learn.’ (Behaviour for Learning Policy, 1) As a trainee teacher it is important I am aware of who I will be teaching and their requirements. I will support students in the best way I can and seek support from the inclusion team when necessary. I will plan my lessons adhering to the policy guidelines and academic levels for that particular class. I will use differentiation to ensure all pupils are able to achieve their full potential.
As a teacher, adopting Inclusive learning is crucial because learners have different ways or level of assimilation. By assessing my learners, I can plan my teaching to include the different profiles of my learners. Knowing or establishing the profiles of my learners allows me to accept them and also prepare my teaching and learning methods to include the different profiles of my learners.
I have never seen anybody come in without the desire to learn and grow. Tutoring can range from the rigidness of an outlined lesson plan or as informal as playing a word game. The most amazing part about this flexibility is the power to tailor sessions to a specific need. For example, if somebody is interested in traveling and needs clarification on the basic processes
An inclusive classroom contains students with different forms of diversities who may differ from each other in terms of readiness levels, interests, skills, intellectual abilities, disabilities, learning styles and so on (Salar, & Turgut, 2015). The educational
In the Koonce text (2014), Mara Sapon-Shevia indicates that one positive aspect of the inclusive classroom model is that the model fosters a sense of community for all students in the classroom. Students come from many different backgrounds and embracing those differences within the classroom builds a sense of community among students. When students learn that they are all important contributors to the whole classroom, and all bring a unique perspective to the learning environment, a sense of belonging ensues. The inclusive model allows this to happen as students are heterogeneously grouped with
The study of inclusive education is of greater significance as it gives the reasons why this type of education should be included in schools today. Suzanne gives the importance of inclusive education as the ways of approach for creating inclusive classrooms and school, and suggests that their purpose is to give prospective and practicing teachers background information in curricular, instructional, assessment, and collaborative problem-solving strategies that foster inclusive education (55).
Motivation can strengthen learning and academic achievement in various ways for students. Students who are motivated are more likely to pay attention in the classroom, comprehend the subject content being introduced, and exhibit the capability to continue to achieve academic proficiency if their first attempts to do so fail. This mindset is utilized to enhance their skills and capabilities in order to meet future challenges without reservations. A student’s approach to future tasks will be determined by the manner in which a student is affected by current tasks and their outcome (Ormrod, 2014).
As a trainer for a Health Trust it is my role to train all members of medical and non-medical employees how to use the clinical system. There has been a change in the clinical database by way of a new innovative system named Lorenzo which resulted in over 1000 employees being retrained on how to access the new clinical system to record their patient activity. The project began by requesting all members of staff to attend mandatory computer training as a requirement of their job specifications. As this was a vast process the training was divided in to clinical training and administrative training. The training material was developed with role specific objectives; clinical members of staff were trained to record their relevant activity
There are numerous motivational theories that have been discussed and tested. Different students unknowingly, or sometimes knowingly, utilize different theories since no two students are alike. Many teachers acknowledge that different students are motivated by different things, whether it be intrinsic extrinsic, self-efficacy or interest. Not only can gender and age differences affect motivation, but the student 's self-efficacy and level of goal setting also affect the student 's motivation. As a teacher, it has been noted that certain students are motivated to do certain tasks while others are not. In order to learn, students need to be motivated. One of the most difficult challenges of teaching is fighting the battle of motivating the students, which then leads to supporting them and helping them motivate themselves.
Motivation affects nearly 75% of K-12 learners in education. It is a problem that effects students' learning ability, causing them to detach from the classroom setting, which later results in failure on standardize tests. Motivation is very essential in education. It implicates the reason of a child's actions and behaviors in a particular way. The theoretical background for this study centers around ways students' interest level arises and fails, and what strategies and activities motivates them when learning. Educational researchers pronounces that students are motivated in education, proving that they learn best when they take lead of the academic curriculum. By taking lead of the academic curriculum give students the opportunity to