Inclusive education

As part of our session on inclusive education we watched a youtube clip which discussed inclusive practices in a range of different schools.  It featured the perspectives of teachers, principals, parents and the students themselves.  Something I found really interesting in this video was a discussion on using teacher aide time - one of the principals discussed using the teacher aide to take the class to give the teacher time to spend one on one with a child with special learning needs.  They mentioned that children can often become isolated if they are often working with a teacher aide - they felt that the presence of an adult deterred other students from working with them.  Another issue raised in this video was that children can become very dependent on their teacher aides, so one school rotated teacher aides through different classrooms at different times to avoid this.   This raised a number of issues I had not considered and will be something to reflect on when I have my own classroom.

GTS 3 Graduating teachers understand how contextual factors influence teaching and learning.
3A: Graduating teachers have an understanding of the complex influences that personal, social and cultural factors may have on teachers and learners.