Building Your Inclusive Classroom explores why we need to adapt our teaching – and our approaches to children and young people – and how this will support the achievement of everyone in the classroom, including the teacher. It will help educators in mainstream settings, across all key stages, to adapt not only their resources but also their approaches for children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) and their peers.
This accessible resource provides a toolkit of ideas, methods, and motivation to enable teachers to make their classrooms fully inclusive. Chapters present the most effective evidence-based approaches – exploring both relational, restorative practice and traditional methods – to provide the foundations upon which to build inclusive classrooms.
The book:
Adaptive teaching has traversed beyond just the mini-whiteboard and the writing frame, and we need now, more than ever, to differentiate and adapt our approaches too, for children both with and without diagnosed SEND. This book will be essential reading for mainstream teachers, Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities Co-ordinators (SENDCOs) and trainee teachers, across all key stages.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Meeting Needs
Chapter 2: What are Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND)?
Chapter 3: The What and the Why of Relational Approaches
Chapter 4: The ‘How’ of Relational Approaches. Four Core Approaches with which to Build Your Foundation
Chapter 5: Evidence-Based Adaptive Teaching and How to Do It·
Chapter 6: A Need-To-Know Basis: Pulling it All Together
Chapter 7: What About the Adults? Parents, Carers and Support Staff
A Final Word
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Index