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Esablishing Incluvise Learning Enironments
Inclusive learning environment are highly critical for effective learning. Students must feel valued and included to learn to the best of their ability. When students feel safe and included they are more likely to participate in learning opportunities. Inclusive learning environments are especially important for ELL learners and ethnically diverse students to provide in a positive educational experience. Also, inclusive learning environments promote understanding and acceptance of different cultures for all students.
In my teaching philosophy I have stressed the importance of inclusion as it greatly impacts learning. Inclusive learning environments are necessary to ensure student success and a positive well being.
Inclusion is another way for students to feel welcomed in the classroom. All students are unique and have different abilities. It is important for students to accept and celebrate their differences and the differences of other to recognize how they can help each other achieve common goals. Students should feel valued and like they are contributing to the classroom in their own special way. Inclusion of all different types of students from different backgrounds and abilities allows student to bring a bit of themselves into learning. Inclusion also creates acceptance and knowledge of different home lives, which encourages students to identify that differences should be celebrated, not suppressed.
For this activity, students had to roll a dice to determine how many eyes, blue cut outs, yellow cut outs, green cut outs, and white cut outs went on their paper bag puppet. This activity encourages inclusivity, as each student had a different role during the rolling process and had to share supplies during the creating stage.
In EDCU 4325: The Impact of Social Issues in Schooling, I received the Intercultural Development Inventory, or IDI, training. The focus of this training was to inform individuals on their own cultural biases and how to better embrace those who are different to us. This is the certificate I received after the completion of this training.
My biggest takeaway from this training was that I look for the similarities between my culture and a different culture, while dismissing the differences. I think that this concept also applies when I am working with students who are ELL and/or come from lower socioeconomic situations. I do not have any experience learning a new language and I grew up in a privileged environment. Given that I know my tendency is to find the similarities and avoid the differences, I need to embrace these differences to better understand where my students, and their families are coming from to increase the inclusivity in my classroom.
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