SD48 Sea to Sky meeting for Collaborative Models of Support

1. What does inclusion mean to you?

2. Why do we include?

3. Why do we include?
...all students in a school, regardless of their strengths
and weaknesses become part of the class community.
…all students feel a sense of belonging in the
classroom.
…the goal of the inclusive classroom is to have all
students working with similar curriculum content and
similar materials.

4. What is Inclusion?
Inclusion is the practice of:
 welcoming all students to their neighborhood school.
 educating all children in age-appropriate, heterogeneous
classrooms.
 including parents when planning for students.
 working together as a staff to better meet the learning needs of
each and every student.
 designing programs for children with special needs that rely, as
much as possible, on the learning objectives and practices of the
regular classroom.
(-page 6 Learning in Safe Schools)

5. Why value it in school?
Forms a community that works, learns and
feels together.
Students learn both social and academic
modeling from age peers.
Education is more than an academic process.
Non-identified students learn about
acceptance and differences.
All members are respected and valued.
(-page 6 Learning in Safe Schools)

6. What are the beliefs?
 All children can learn, albeit in different ways and at different rates.
 All children have strengths.
 Learning is a developmental, active, continuos, constructive process building on the prior
experiences of the learner.
 All children can be included.
 Parents are part of our educational team.
 School should be a place where all students and staff enjoy a sense of belonging. All need
to feel valued.
 Teachers, students, administrators, and paraprofessionals will grow personally by working
together to meet diverse needs.
 Successful inclusion practices are possible.
 The more we know about inclusion the less fearful it is.
 Children are the province of the whole school, not one teacher.
-page 7 Learning in Safe Schools

7. What does inclusion in the
classroom look like?
“It is always exciting to walk into a classroom and have to search
to find the child who is working on an adapted program because
that student is using the same materials as the rest of the
students.”
(-pg. 81 Learning in Safe Schools)