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Join Cecilia Perillo in Spilamberto, 2017, for an engaging approach to inclusive teaching focusing on diverse learning abilities and engaging techniques. Explore stimulating methods to activate prior knowledge, address different learning styles, and encourage participation, ensuring no student is left behind. Discover the power of interactive lessons, multisensory learning, and tailored approaches to foster a supportive and enriching educational environment.
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The manyfaces of inclusive teaching No Child left behind Spilamberto, 2017 Cecilia Perillo
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Session AimsInclusive classrooms must incorporate a variety of teachingmethods in order to reachstudents of varyinglearningabilites
Variables • Needs • Interests • Attitudes • Personalities • Experience • Backgrounds Teachingneeds to be sufficientlyflexible and wellplanned in order to reachasmanystudentsaspossible a
What do you know about your students? Learning isrelating new information or concepts to whatwealreadyknow JimCummins 1 Activatingpriorknowledgeislikepreparing the soilbeforesowing the seeds of new knowledge JimCummins Prior - knowledge 2 Can do with language 3 Plan Lessons
Strategies to activate prior - knowledge 1 KWL Chart 2 Graphic organisers 3 Concepts maps
Activatingprior-knowledge • Thinkingaboutwhatstudentsalreadyknowabout the topic • Connect priorknowledge to new learning • A way to scaffoldlearning for studentswhoprocess new information more slowly 1. What do studentsknowaboutvolcanoes? 2. What do studentswant to learn? 3. Whatstudentslearned from the lesson. KWL chart
Compare and contrast Organize information according to similarities and differences 2. Explorerelationship VENN DIAGRAM
Solving the problems 1 Half the students have finished 2 The other half have only just begun 3 Graded tasks - readers
What are the advantages? 1 Appropriate level of difficulty 2 No learner should be left behind 3 4 Completing the task is motivating Easy learning for all students
The weakerstudentstry so hard buttheystillgetbadmarks Recognition of progress isasimportantasachievement Varyyourapproach to cater for differentlearningstyles People learn in different ways
Thinkaboutlearningstyles- are yousupporting the learner’sstrengths?
Who benefits from multisensory learning? Everyone! 1 We learn with our whole body 2 We have a multisensory brain 3 4 We all have different learning styles People with learning difficulties
To stimulate visual reasoning and learning Notallvisuallearnershavedyslexia, butallpupils with dyslexia are visuallearners 1 Text, pictures, posters, computers, flash cards 2 Colourfor highlighting, organizing information 3 4 Graphic organizers Student created art, images, text, pictures, video
Sensitizing Students to Grammar I see! Manydyslexicshavevisualstrengths so use of colourmakescomprehensioneasier and helpsthem to focus and remember I see! Word order Colourhelps to buildsentences Visualising = understanding Wegotoabigschool
Memory Games Revisedifferentlexicalitemssuchasnumbers, colours, clothes 2. Revisestructuressuchaspresentcontinuous 3. Orally or written 4. Individually, pairs, teams 5. Test WHAT CAN YOU REMEMBER FROM THE PICTURE? 1.What animals are there? 2. What’s the weather like? 3. How many birds are there? 4. What is the man doing? 5. How many children are there? 6.What colour is the car? 7. What is the mother wearing? 8. What is the baby doing?
Presentation -What’s the lessonabout? Subject? Science :Animals and theirhabitats
Presentation arctic mountains desert lake ocean / sea country jungle forest / woods river savannah HABITAT: The naturalenvironmentwhere an animallives
DRAMA Interview a Roman Act out a story SCIENCE How an aqueductworks HISTORY Social Classes Architecture CLIL Project Central theme Explore and relate othercurricularsubjects/ideas The Ancient Romans GEOGRAPHY Map of Empire Map of trading routes ART Make a mosaic Construct an amphitheatre RELIGION Roman gods and godesses
DramaStory prediction – What’sitabout? ring thief Senator
History and Drama Drama is a great way to implement the VAKT model for learning. 2. Consolidate and reinforcelanguage and knowledge 3. Takesinformation off the page and comesalive! Global questions Where are Aurelia and Fabius? Where do they go? • Detailedquestions • Howdoes Aurelia feel? • Whathas the thiefgot? • Where is the Senator? • Where is the thiefgoing? • Describe the thief.
Insert examples of Amazing Minds – reading activities and projects
Auditory techniques 1 Computerized text readers 2 Music, song, rhymes 3 4 Video / Film Flipped Classroom
Computers are infinitelypatient Computer-basedexercises look appealing Highly motivating and multi-sensory 4. Supportslearningatalllevels
Tactile teaching methods 1 Finger painting 2 Puzzles 3 Computer
Kinaesthetic teaching methods 1 Weremember 10 per cent of whatwehear, 20 per cent of whatwesee, and 90 per cent of whatwehear, see and do Body movements 2 TPR 3 Reading race
History and Science Reading Race 1. Cut up text 2. Placearoundclassroom 3. Give out pictures to pairs of students 4. They race to match picture and text
The HokeyCokey Put your right arm in Put your right arm out In, out, in, out, shake itallabout You do the hokeycokey And turn around That’swhatit’sallabout Oh, the hokeycokey! ( 3 times) Kneesbent, armsstretched RA,RA, RA! Put yourleftarm / right leg / leftleg / whole self in………………………
« If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow» John Dewey