Inclusive Education
Rationale
- This project proposes to give a brief historical overview of the widely implemented self-contained school model, and an opportunity for the reader to expand and advance their understanding of the integrated inclusive model for a learning environment.
- By exploring the inclusive model, this project seeks to allow the reader the opportunity to decide for themselves whether the inclusive model meets the needs of all exceptional children in Ontario schools.
- Inclusion is about changing our communities. It is not innovative. It is not transitional. It is current. It is now.
- This information is presented by Marvin Lowik for a UWO RPP, 2005.
RPP Topics
A brief history of education in Canada
Definitions of inclusive education
The role of the parents and the child
One road not two
Learning environments
Supporting inclusive education
Promoting inclusive education
Public and professional opinion concerning inclusive education
Inclusive Education - Links
Personal Reflections
Inclusion Is Not
Exclusion
Inclusion means young people and adults with disabilities and/or learning difficulties being included in mainstream education and society.
Inclusive schools help the development of communities where all people are equally valued and have the same opportunities for participation.
We all share the same dreams.
Benefits of Inclusion for Children
with Disabilities
• Is welcomed as he/she is
• Authentically participates
• Engages in learning at his/her developmental stage
• Experiences dignity and respect
• Feels that they belong
• More stimulating environments
• Better prepared for postschool experiences
• Expand a student's personal interests and knowledge of the world
• Role models who facilitate communication, social and adaptive behaviors
• Improved competence in IEP objectives
• Opportunities to make new friends and share new experiences
• Greater acceptance by peers
• Membership in a class and in the school
• Provide a challenging and supportive educational experience for children with an exceptionality
• Provides holistic, heterogeneous, and flexible learning opportunities
Benefits of Inclusion for Children
without Disabilities
• Develop better communication and social skills
• Create warm and caring friendships
• More accepting of individual differences
• More comfortable with students with disabilities
• Become more helpful in general classroom activities
• Acquire leadership skills
• Improved and increased self-esteem
• Show greater development in moral and ethical principles
• Opportunities to develop higher level thinking skills and social skills
• Increased cooperative and collaborative learning skills
Benefits of Inclusion to Teachers
• Awareness and a greater appreciation of individual differences in all children
• Access to specialists and resources that can help all children
• Learn new teaching techniques that can help all children
• Fosters a commitment to lifelong learning
• Receive new professional development related to team member roles and responsibilities, to be better prepared to work in the new, integrated settings
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