Including Everyone (Reflection 10)

Even before reading the article, one can gather a lot of information from the title of it. The title basically lets the reader know that the information in the article will assist with teaching and including all of your students opposed to just one set. The article “Teaching for Inclusion” is a very helpful article in the sense that it gives a lot of insight for a diverse classroom. Classrooms in modern times are always diverse opposed to earlier in the times when teachers didn’t have diversity and weren’t trained on how to handle diversity in the classrooms. If anyone was different from the majority of the students in the classroom, the student was more than likely sent to the guidance counselor for lack of a better way to handle them. With the new information available, I would hope that the average teacher is much more in tuned with his or her students. Luckily we have evolved and matured as a society that we do not have to rely on guidance counselors to handle those kids that rent a part of the norm that we are used to. If that was the case, in a classroom in modern times almost every child will be sitting in the office of a guidance counselor because of their difference. Diversity is a part of the average classroom today. Another point in the article was that the teacher should get to know their students. I believe this is true because getting to know the student will benefit the teacher and the student. The student will be comfortable in the classroom and will be able to do their work accordingly. One thing I would definitely want to implement in my future classroom is setting up ground rules for discussions. Of course I would want everyone to be able to express their own opinions but I do not want it to be expressed at the cost of another student’s opinion. I also feel that by setting these ground rules into play, there would be less controversy especially when controversial topics are being discussed. Another important point that was found in the article was the inclusion of humorin lesson plans and different topics. Humor is a gentle place to walk on because many people do not find the sme things funny. I’m certain there will be topics that you would have to add humor to try and ge the students involved in it but the humor being used may be offensive to some students and not others. So do you just leave humor out of it all together? I am hopeful that in my future classroom I am able to distinguish between the small things like good humor and non offensive humor from bad humor or offensive humor. I am willing to dedicate my time with my students to learn them and their patterns that way they feel comfortable but still knows that the teacher is in charge of the classroom and not them.
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