Role of Teacher to Promote Inclusive Education

Role of Teacher to Promote Inclusive Education

 

Inclusive education is the provision of services to students with disabilities in their neighborhood schools with necessary support services and supplementary aids for both children and teachers. It is a system in which all children from a given community learn together in the same local school including children with learning difficulties, special need or disabilities. Provision of such a form of education inculcates a feeling of confidence in the minds of disabled children and offers them access to the formal system of education.
Inclusive education is nothing but the modern education system that accepts, understand and attend to student differences and diversities including, physical, cognitive, academic, social, and emotional to achieve common educational goal and objective.

Inclusive education is possible only then, when a strong leadership leads the institution by maintaining the quality, physical, social and academic environment of the school as well as the presence of sound personality and well trained teacher to handle the students of diverse category properly.

Role of the teacher to promote inclusive education:

1. Identification of the children with disabilities in the classroom.

2. Referring the identified to the experts for further examination and treatment.

3. Accepting the children with disabilities.

4. Developing positive attitude between normal and disabled children.

5. Placing the children in the classroom in proper places so that they feel comfortable and are benefited by the classroom interaction.

6. Removing architectural barriers wherever possible so that children with disabilities move independently.

7. Involving the children with disabilities in almost all the activities of the classroom.

8. Making suitable adaptation in the curriculum transaction so that the children with disabilities learn according to their ability.

9. Preparations of teaching aids/adaptation of teaching aids which will help the children with disabilities learn.

10. Parental guidance and counseling and public awareness programme through school activities.

11. Collaborating with medical and physiological panels, social works, parents and special teachers.

12. Construction of achievement and diagnostic tool.

13. Adaptation in evaluation for children with special needs.

14. Providing remedial instruction to the children who require it.

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