INCLUSIVE
TEACHING:
The
Journey Towards Creating Effective Schools for All Learners
CHAPTER NINE
Build a Community for Learning
InclusiveNet. Links
organized by the different sections of the chapter.
Learning
tools. Tools for analysis, discussion, and planning you may
use in class, professional development, and in your own practice as a
teacher.
- Seeing
community in a classroom. Activity
Tool 9-2 allows respondent
to consider behaviors regarding the presence, or lack, of community
in a classroom and discuss implications for teaching
students
with special needs.
- Community
building ideas for the classroom. Activity
Tool 9-3 lists categories of strategies for community building and
asks respondents devise a plan to strengthen community and discuss
how these strategies might impact on children.
- Classroom
Strategies For Building Community & Dealing With Problem Behaviors. Use
Activity Tool 9-4 to discuss
and identify strategies for both building community and responding
to problematic behaviors in the classroom
in
ways that help meet the Five Needs identified by Glasser.
- School-Wide
Strategies For Building Community & Dealing With Problem Behaviors. Use
Activity Tool 9-5 to discuss and identify strategies for
both building community and responding to problematic
behaviors in the school as a whole in ways that help meet the Five
Needs identified by Glasser.
- Frames
of relationship. Participants
may use Activity Tool 9-6 to evaluate the social place of two students
with special needs in a class based on the concept
of frames of relationship discussed in chapter 11 and discuss what
they might do to encourage relationships to deepen among students.
- Case
studies—challenge
to community in the classroom. Use the case
studies provided with Activity Tool 9-7
a-c. Have students read the case
study situation and answer the following question: “How can we build
support and community around this student?”
Artwork reprinted by permission of
Martha Perske from PERSKE:
PENCIL PORTRAITS 1971-1990
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998.