| How can teachers make their teaching more inclusive? |
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Effective teaching tends to involve making hundreds of fine adjustments to your lessons in the light of responses from pupils. Effective teachers create inclusive classroom environments by challenging and questioning accepted thinking to make these adjustments. 
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To progress from the everyday fine adjustments you make in lessons, to trying out changes that you consider risky in the interest of making your classroom more inclusive, you might like to try the following activity. Start by making a table with three columns: 1. Change - identify three changes you have thought about making in your teaching but so far have failed to implement; 2. Barriers - list the ‘risks’ that these changes carry with them. Ask yourself ‘what has stopped me and what fears do I hold?’; and 3. Support - try to identify the sources of support that might help you overcome these fears to implement the change, such as further training, mentoring, lesson observations. Are there any surprises in the changes, barriers and support you have identified? Moving forward The ideas you have collected in the table could be used as the starting point for planning how to tackle some of the more challenging changes and risks you have identified. You could ask experienced colleagues to help and support you in your planning. Could this be developed as a collaborative approach to exploring inclusion issues in your school?  Find out moreYou can find out more about the inclusive school practices project at: http://www.tlrp.org/proj/phase1/phase1asept.html Find out more about inclusion at: http://www.gtce.org.uk/research/romtopics/rom_inclusion/ |
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