The Benefits of Inclusive Education

· Families’ visions of a typical life for their children can come true.

· Children develop a positive understanding of themselves and others.

· Developing friendships.

· Children learn important academic skills.

· All children learn by being together.

For a long time, children with disabilities were educated in separate classes or in separate schools. People got used to the idea that special education meant separate education. But we now know that when children are educated together, positive academic and social outcomes occur for all the children involved.

We also know that simply placing children with and without disabilities together does not produce positive outcomes. Inclusive education occurs when there is ongoing advocacy, planning, support and commitment.

These are the principles that guide quality inclusive education:

· All children belong.

Inclusive education is based on the simple idea that every child and family is valued equally and deserves the same opportunities and experiences. Inclusive education is about children with disabilities – whether the disability is mild or severe, hidden or obvious – participating in everyday activities, just like they would if their disability were not present. It’s about building friendships, membership and having opportunities just like everyone else.

· All children learn in different ways.

Inclusion is about providing the help children need to learn and participate in meaningful ways. Sometimes, help from friends or teachers works best. Other times, specially designed materials or technology can help. The key is to give only as much help as needed.

· It is every child’s right to be included.

Inclusive education is a child’s right, not a privilege. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act clearly states that all children with disabilities should be educated with non-disabled children their own age and have access to the general education curriculum.

Vocabulary: Give the translation.

Inclusive education

Special needs school

Special education

Children with disabilities

Students with special educational needs

integration

mainstreaming

learn together

regular inclusion or partial inclusion –

full inclusion

Answer the questions:

ü What is inclusive education?

ü What are kinds of inclusive education?

ü What are benefits of inclusive education?

ü What are main principles of inclusive education?

Writing an essay on the topic “Inclusive education in Kazakhstan: problems and perspectives”

Draft Outline:

1. Introduction (main idea).

2. Main part (major statements and their proof).

3. Conclusion (opinion).

Recommendations for students’ independent works

Aim. Independent work of students in the discipline aims to develop students’ skills of independent work, development of creativity, independence and the research approach in the development of educational material.

Methodological recommendations: SIW assumes independent development of educational material in libraries and computer labs. SIW can be carried out in such forms as the execution of a written work (essay, report, assignment, essay, notes, colloquium (oral), development of practice notes, writing essays, making clusters, Venn diagrams, and other self-development of training material for course work recommended list of basic and additional literature.

Main tasks:

- to improve skills in different types of speech activity;
- to be able to find necessary information in an unfamiliar text;
- fill out the necessary documents, forms, write letters, greeting cards;
- use reference books;
- understand a dialogue - questioning;
- understand texts of cross-cultural nature;
- retell the content of the text;

- predict the content of texts by their title and key words;

- express their attitude to what is heard, read;

-extract information from lengthy and complex texts

- work with texts for independent work;

- collect information from additional sources and the Internet;

- work with texts (reading, translating, retelling);

- conduct a conversation on every day, professional and business topics;

- make a plan for a text or essay;

- defend projects on given topics.

Calendar and thematic plan for students’ independent work

Students’ independent work#1

Students’ independent work #1 consists of 4 assignments:

1. To make up glossary for the course “Pedagogy and methodology of elementary school” (not less than 20 words). A student should make up a list of special terms and words related to the specialty “Pedagogy and methodology of elementary school” and give definition and translation). For example:

2. To make up information reference book for the topic “Moral education of children in the family”. It should include the answers to the following questions:

a) What is moral education?

b) What do we need moral values for?

c) What are moral values of primary (elementary) education?

d) What are elementary school teacher’s moral values?

e) What are methods of moral values?

f) Give the example of teaching moral education in the classroom.

3. Make up a scheme for the topic “Formation and development of pedagogical science in Kazakhstan”.

Periods of developing pedagogical science in Kazakhstan:

1) Ancient times (from VІІ-VІІІ centuries B.C. till V century A.D.)

2) Middle Age times (from V century A.D. till the 30s of ХVIII century)

3) New history of Kazakhstan (from the 30s of ХVIII century till February 1917)

4) Soviet times (from 1917-1920 till August-December 1991)

5) From Post-Soviet till present times (since December 16, 1991 till present time)

4. Make up a list of special terms for the topic “Personality-oriented formation and development of pedagogical science in Kazakhstan”. Complete the table:

Students’ independent work#2

Students’ independent work #2consists of 4 assignments:

1. Make notes to the topic “Accounting the age and specific features of children in the course of their education” and record audio of reading your notes. Complete the table:

2. Prepare a presentation for the topic “Children’s collective and its educational possibilities” (10-15 slides) and record audio or film a video for the presentation.

Requirements for presentation:

· Number of slides – 10-15 slides

· There should brief information (notes) in each slide

· Check information on quality

· Use headlines for slides

· The slide background is neutral

· Use pictures, tables, schemes, lists

· Final slide is for references

3. Create a mind map for Lesson in the condition of developing education. You can use a sample of mind map below:

4. Make up an open test for 10-15 questions and close test for 10-15 questions on the topic “Complete development of individuality in the course of its teaching”

Students’ independent work#3

Students’ independent work #3consists of 4 assignments:

1. Prepare a presentation for the topic “Problems of character formation in school days” (10-15 slides) and record audio or film a video for the presentation.

Requirements for presentation:

· Number of slides – 10-15 slides

· There should brief information (notes) in each slide

· Check information on quality

· Use headlines for slides

· The slide background is neutral

· Use pictures, tables, schemes, lists

· Final slide is for references

2. Prepare a video project for the topic “The role of games in education of individuality” which must include the complete research of the topic.

Requirements for project:

a. Conduct a research for the topic. The research must include discussion of the following problems:

Ø What is a game?

Ø What are kinds of games? Describe in short each kind and give an example for each.

Ø What is the role of a teacher in gaming activities?

Ø What are advantages and disadvantages of games?

Ø What competences does a learner acquire playing games?

Ø What is learning environments for games?

Ø What is the role of games in forming individuality?

b. The final results of your research you will present in the form of video (mini film).

3. Prepare a project for the topic “Information technologies in elementary education. Technical means of teaching” which must include the complete research of the topic.

Requirements for project:

a. Conduct a research for the topic. The research must include discussion of the following problems:

Ø What are information technologies of teaching?

Ø What are peculiarities of using information technologies?

Ø What are benefits and disadvantages of interactive board?

Ø What are technical means of teaching?

b. Prepare at least 3 microteaching (with plans) for different school subjects using power point presentation, music and video. (if there are more lesson plans, so use other information technologies, i.e. Internet).

4. Make recommendation notes for the topic “Substantial and methodological lines of basic concepts and ways of training school subjects” and design them in the form of presentation. There should at least one slide for each school subject: Kazakh / Russian language, Mathematics, Literary reading, World cognition, Arts, Physical education, Foreign language, Computer science, Self-knowledge.

Students’ independent work#4

Students’ independent work #4 consists of 4 assignments:

1. Write an essay (150-200 words) on the topic “Independent work and extracurricular activities of young learners”. The essay structure:

Introduction (2-3 sentences)

Body (main statements/ problems and their prove/ problem-solving ways):

1 Statement: …

2 Statement: …

2 Statement: …

Conclusion (summing up and your opinion)

2. Prepare a quiz on the topic “Famous home and foreign pedagogues of all times”. The quiz must include a number of key topic questions (15-20) and at least 4 different assignments (rounds).

3. Make notes to the topic “Scientific and pedagogical diagnostics. Evaluation criteria. Mark in elementary education” and record an audio for these notes.

4. Make notes to the topic “Modern foreign researches in the field of pedagogy and methodology” and complete the scheme: