Whole Schooling
The Journey Towards Schools
Where Diverse Students Learn Together Well

CHAPTER 7

Develop an Inclusive School and Classroom

Learning tools. Tools for analysis, discussion, and planning you may use in class, professional development, and in your own practice as a teacher.

• Healthy Environments and School. Activity Tool 7-3 asks respondents to rate the degree to which the physical environments of their school and a specific classroom are considered healthy and discuss the implications for how students act and learn?
• Segregated and inclusive schools use of space. Participants may use Activity Tool 7-4 to evaluate a school's inclusive or segregated use of space.
• Designing my inclusive classroom. Participants will review the chart from the book in a handout: Towards Universal Design of Learning Environments (Activity Tool 7-5) and then sketch out some ideas for organizing an inclusive classroom.
• Special needs analysis for learning. Use Activity Tool 7-6 to have participants consider students with various types of special needs. Have them identify needs and issues, strategies to deal with these, and ways such strategies might be beneficial to all students in the class.