Let’s start with identifying student learning-styles and design lessons that support diverse and inclusive classrooms. As well as various teaching techniques, styles, and learning environments that meet the needs of linguistically and culturally diverse students labeled with disabilities. Lastly, evaluating instruction and monitoring the progress of individual students; using appropriate technologies in the instructional process.
Welcome to my approach to learning the how's to inclusive instruction by using assessment strategies that address the “why”, how”, and “what” of learning. This application of UDL approach provides deeper understanding to the various ways inclusive instruction can be learned and implemented.
Visual Learners
Let's start with Identifying student learning styles via assessments and design lessons that support these diverse learners in our inclusive classrooms.
We learn inclusive instruction by making use of data gathered via assessments and tailoring our Lesson plans based on this data. For Example, my recent Lesson plan below caters to students who are Visual Learners by making using of images with bubble scaffoldings in various languages:
Role Models
Inclusive Learning also entails providing students with role models they identify with to inspire them:
Below is a link to an example of such role models I've provided to my students to encourage them during the implementation of a relevant lesson plan
Click hereto see Interesting Role Models who have used the skills we learned today to pave a career for themselves...
Use of Technologies
Inclusive Learning also entails leveraging the use of appropriate technologies to harness the students individual abilities while monitoring the progress of individual student..
For example, in one of my math Lesson Plans, i implement the use of technologies/video games requiring user input to provide a desired output as well as abstract examples such as linear functions where the outputs are points on a graph(y coordinates) based on inputs which also happens to be x -coordinates on a graph. Both examples were used to predict future outcomes and enable other tasks to take place based on the outcome. This concept is very useful in understanding how technology works in our everyday lives and how Artificial Intelligence is being developed in the form of predictive analytics to guess what your next word will be when you begin a text, or to guess what your next move will be when playing a video game and the opponent is a computer.
In the end, the goal is to try various inclusive instructional approaches while monitoring student progress to determine which approach is working and which is not to continue to fine tune instructions as you go to better facilitate inclusive learning.