Group B
Understanding and Using Inclusive teaching and learning approaches in education and training
Shaun Brown
1.1 Describe features of inclusive teaching and learning
What is inclusive teaching?
Inclusive teaching means teaching in ways that do not isolate students, accidentally or intentionally, from opportunities to learn. Making sure the needs of students with a variety of backgrounds, learning styles and abilities are addressed. These strategies contribute to an overall inclusive learning environment, in which students feel equally valued.
“Even though some of us might wish to conceptualize our classrooms as culturally neutral or might choose to ignore the cultural dimensions, students cannot check their sociocultural identities at
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Individual work facilitates one on one interaction among students and teachers. A teacher will be able to pay individual attention on student’s performance and assess the capabilities and competencies of students. Also I believe that if students individually focus on their work, they will be able to obtain a better and comprehensive understanding about the subject matter. While individual work will enable the students to improve their performance level, and teachers to individually assess the students. However it does not facilitate any team work or collaboration between the students, and the students would feel isolated. It would also restrict the students from learning and obtaining effective experiences and knowledge from other students. Experts believe that each student is different. Students have different learning styles and they prefer various learning techniques for various subjects. Experts believe that individual work would help students to improve themselves on an individual level through the individual interactions with their teachers. I agree with this idea, as I believe that individual interactions with students are extremely important for students as well as teachers to exactly identify the learning requirements of the students.
2 Group Work I believe that group work is essential to develop team work and facilitate collaboration
Inclusive practice is identifying and understanding any barriers that are stopping children from completing the activity. We have to make sure that whatever the child’s background they are able to fully join in with everything within the school. This will make the children feel valued and have a sense of belonging.
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
Compare the strengths and limitations of teaching and learning approaches used in own area of specialism in relation to meeting individual learner needs.
Inclusive practice is about adapting what is being delivered to make learning accessible to everyone regardless of ability, special education need (SEN) or any other barrier that might exist. When planning to meet the needs of everyone in the group it is essential that the teacher has as much information about everyone as possible. (The City and Guilds textbook level 3 Award in Education and Training). Features of inclusive teaching and learning starts with knowing which learning styles your learners prefer, to do this you can use VARK (visual, aural, read/write and kinetic) test which was designed by Neil Fleming to help learners and teachers know what learning methods they are best suited to e.g. in the first lesson my tutor asked for us
|With group learning, peer assessment can also be utilised which can be a valuable tool. Some learners will respond better to feedback |
1.1. Inclusive learning is about recognising that all your students have the right to be treated equally and fairly, have the same access to all products, services and have the opportunity to be involved and included. As a teacher you need to be aware that all students are not the same as they all do not learn in the same way, the ways in which a teacher can overcome this is using the Teaching and Learning Cycle, using visual, auditory and kinaesthetic materials (VAK) and agreeing on individual learning plans (ILPs). Other features could include self reflective exercises, quizzes and providing opportunities for students to reflect on their own
Inclusive practice is a process of identifying, understanding and breaking down barriers to participation and belonging. Inclusion is about ensuring that children and young people, whatever their background or situation, are able to participate fully in all aspects of the life of the school. Inclusive practices will ensure that everyone feels valued and has a sense of belonging. Inclusion is not about viewing everyone as the same or providing the same work, but about providing the same opportunities and access to a
(1.2) Compare the strengths and limitations of teaching and learning approaches used in own area of specialism in relation to meeting individual learner needs?
It is important to work as part of team as this can only gain better results, you can listen to other people and their ideas and also share your own ideas and experiences. Working as a team can also reduce your own work load through sharing good practice, sharing worksheets, saving time preparing your own worksheets for your class. Everyone within your team will know what the target goal is and work together to achieve it. Relationships between staff within your team will get stronger and you will feel valued and this will help build your confidence and self esteem. When you work together there is consistency therefore if a
together as a class will also reinforce what they have learned and will give the teacher an
Individualized instruction will not only benefit the student that it will also benefit the teacher because, "Teachers will acquire new skills; they will learn to diagnose, to help students learn how to learn, to take the student where he is and to teach him" (Steiner, F., 1971, p. 372).
Having had the opportunity to assess children’s learning during PPL3, it is clear that there are certain strategies that best suits the needs of individuals. From studying lesson plans and evaluations, and from general observation it is clear that group work was often beneficial, and gave the children the chance to work with peers of different ability levels and different learning styles, so that they were able to develop and learn from their peers. Group work is great for getting children to work collaboratively, whether this is as a pair, or as a group of 6, or a group of 12, it takes them out of their comfort zones and to adapt to new situations. Using different strategies such as think-pair-share and mixed ability groups as well as self chosen groups can really determine the quality of children’s learning. I shall be looking into these strategies and reviewing my own teaching and how they were beneficial or detrimental towards a child’s education.
I may often guide my students as they approach problems, encourage them to work in groups to think about questions and issues, and support them with advice as they tackle adventures, problems, and challenges that are embedded in real life situations that are both satisfying to my students and interesting in terms of the result of their work. I believe that learning is promoted and supported through collaboration among learners and teachers. As a result, learning become easy to occur in the lesson when we incorporate these approaches. I strongly believe that it is in interaction with others that children learn how to think. It is important to give students the opportunity to become responsible for their own learning, and this will allow students to be more likely to be self-motivated and develop self- efficacy. As students interact with their environment, they connect information learned through experience to prior knowledge, and so build new knowledge and understandings. As an educator, I recognise the value of the experience and knowledge that learners bring to the classroom context. It is my responsibility and role to provide experience that assist learners to further their existing knowledge of the world (Duchesne et al,
This will encourage the students to think independently about what they learned previously in the lesson.
The next step would be changing the manner in which the teacher addresses each student, consequently, they wouldn’t respond in a defensive way when asked to do an activity. This measure would be reinforced with the orientation class, in which they could learn new ways to cope with their environment successfully. Another possibility would be to observe the effect of pair work during the semester in the learning of