Inclusive Learning: Cultural Diversity Focus

Describe the features of inclusive teaching and learning:

As stated by Bruno and Dell’Aversana (2018), inclusive learning is associated with innovative teaching and learning approaches that deal with the needs of students belonging to diverse culture and background. Inclusive learning and teaching process is instrumental in maintaining as well as creating a learning environment, in which the participant from different culture, value and perspectives can share their ideas and thoughts in terms of learning new things. The main feature of inclusive learning and teaching are as follows:

Inclusive teaching and learning process posits the cultural diversity and differences in terms of identifying the diverse needs of participants from different background (Smith, 2017).

This learning process provides the proper value, respects and dignity to the cultural, social financial and perceptual differences among the participants. This learning process would provide the equal opportunity to all the students irrespective of their culture, religion, socio-economic aspects (Gould and Taylor, 2017).

Inclusive learning and teaching process focuses on protecting the kerning framework from the stereotypic threats, by providing the equal learning facilities and opportunities to all the participles belonging to different cultural and social background.

In this process, participants are asked direct open ended question, with direct eye contact with them, in terms of understand their perspectives, opinion and perception, which is important or identifying the actual learning needs of the students.

Explain how you can meet individual learner needs and give the strengths and limitations of at least 4 different learning approaches.

In term of meeting the learning needs of the students during conducting the inclusive learning; process, I would like to make the direct eye contact with the participants. Through this process in can understand actual perspectives, opinion, ideas and understanding of the participants form different background.

Moreover, I will conduct the open communication directly with the participants, in term of allowing the, to share their viewpoints, opinion and decision. Through this process I will be able to understand the actual learning and developmental needs of the participants.

By conducting group working with participants, I would like to assign challenging task to the participants, which will reveal their individual strength and needs.

Four important learning approaches of inclusive learning process are as follows:

Group Work:

Open communication:

Question and answer:

Peer Coaching:

Explain why it is important to provide opportunities for learners to develop their English, mathematics, ICT and wider skills:

Developing the knowledge of students about English, Mathematics, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), is highly important not only improving their knowledge regarding different subjects, but also for developing their decision making ability and problem solving skill. Mathematics and ICT are two important as well as paramount aspects in learning process which improves the intellectual thoughts, reasoning ability, judgmental approaches of the students (Henley, 2017). Through wider skill enhancement and English learning process, students can get huge stock of words and can develop the proper language skill. ICT is important part of the learning process which, assist the students to get clear knowledge abut technologies and networking, which is important for today generation in terms of dealing with any academic task.

Explain why it’s important to create an inclusive teaching and learning environment.

Inclusive teaching process is important for creating innovative learning and teaching approaches that will focus on the actual needs of different participants belonging to the diverse culture and background (Galloway and Edwards, 2017). Through creating this learning process, it is possible to create effective leaning environment that will focus on the ranges of needs of the individual students. Through conducting inclusive leaning process, teachers are able to conduct the open communication with the participants, in terms of assessing their perspectives, beliefs, opinions and understanding, which are associated with their academic as well as developmental needs. Moreover, inclusive learning will assist the teachers to respect the diversity, difference and values of the participants, which will not only assist the participants to feel valued but also offer them relevant opportunities.

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Explain ways to engage and motivate learners:

There are different ways through which the teachers and educator can motivate learners which are as follows:

Teachers can offer student highly motivating as well as positive academic environments which are full of new ideas, learning process and innovative choices. Positive as well as threat free environment will provide respect to the students’ values, beliefs and decision (Celli and Young, 2017). Moreover positive environment will encourage student to develop their skill and knowledge.

By defining the objective of each subject, teachers can also assist student to understand the actual content of different subjects. Through this process, student can have clear perception about any subjects (Majid, 2016).

By offering positive competition to students, teachers can motivate them in terms of developing new ideas and thoughts to compete with their peers (Kubanyiova and Crookes, 2016). Healthy competition in the learning environment is important which assist the learner to gather proper knowledge and ideas about any subjects.

Select the teaching and learning approaches, resources, and assessment methods you might use and explain how they meet the needs of different individuals

Teaching and learning approaches are as follows:

Open communication with the students in terms of understanding their needs

By conducting proper question answer process which will allow students to express their viewpoint about any subjects (Kubanyiova and Crookes, 2016).

Posing challenging academic tasks such as debates, mathematical questions on th students.

Resources and assessment methods:

Academic resources that would be used for learning are books, online magazines, articles and leaflets, online libraries, current news, regular class notes.

Through regular exams and tests, teachers can assess the ability of the students.

Summarize the ways in which you could establish ground rules with your learners:

For establishing the ground rules in class rule, I would like to do the following processes:

By creating the positive and creative learning environment for the learners in which they can share their thoughts, decisions, knowledge in terms of improving their subjective perception.

By providing the equal academic facilities and support to al learners in terms of maintaining bias-less environment

By focusing on the diverse needs of learners from the different background and culture, which I important for meeting the individual learning needs

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