BUILDING BLOCKS TOWARDS AN INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM - Face to Face

Outcomes of Workshop

This workshop will enable you to:

• Gain an overview and refer to current legislative policies and guidelines on inclusive education
• Understand that emotion is a part of inclusion
• Get an overview of the most important elements of understanding (building blocks) needed to effect inclusive education practices in the classroom.
• Reflect critically upon your own perspectives and that of others regarding inclusion.
• Identify a child’s position on a developmental chart.
• Develop a broad understanding of the critical issues needed to be in place in a classroom within an inclusive education approach.
• Apply the theory provided on inclusive education in the classroom as it pertains to early identification and screening.
• Apply the various theories on the learning process and teaching to enhance and ensure appropriate teaching strategies/practices for curriculum differentiation and the enhancement of access to the curriculum e.g. multiple intelligences and learning styles.
• Examine the curriculum offerings and the outcomes of the child to determine diagnostically the area/s that need intervention.
• Use the ecosystemic assessment graphic organiser (EAGO) to provide a structure and an outline of the factors that need to be considered when developing an Individual Education Support Plan.
• Learn to problem-solve by applying the thinking hats of de Bono
• Develop an Individual Education Support Plan (IESP) based on an EAGO.
• Design and review an IESP and monitor a child’s progress
• Reflect on own effectiveness of current teaching strategies.

Target Audience

Teachers, departmental heads, deputies and principals, SMTs, SBSTs and SESs

Duration: Full day

SACE PD Points:

10