Creating an Inclusive School

CONTENTS
1. FORMS OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION IN INDIAN EDUCATION
1. Exclusion
▪ Social Exclusion
▪ Meaning and Definition
2. Inclusion
▪ Social inclusion
3. Inclusion vs. Exclusion
4. Inclusion and exclusion in education
5. Forms of exclusion and inclusion in India
2. INCLUSIVE EDUCATION- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT, PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIAL BASIS AND BENEFITS
1. Meaning of inclusive education
2. Definitions of inclusive education
3. Special education vs. inclusive education
4. Integration education vs. inclusive education
5. Mainstream vs. inclusion
6. Historical development of inclusive education
7. Implementation of inclusive education programme
8. Historical development of inclusive education in India
9. Philosophical and social basis of inclusive education
• Philosophical basis of inclusive education
• Social basis of inclusive education
10. Benefits or advantages of inclusive education
11. Criticism of inclusive education
3. ADDRESSING INEQUALITY AND DIVERSITY IN INDIAN CLASSROOMS
1. Definitions of equality and diversity
• Equality
• Diversity
2. Equality and diversity in education
• Promotion of equality and diversity (Multiculturalism) in schools
• Challenging inequality and diversity in the classroom
• Approaches for equality in the classroom
• Approaches for diversity in classroom
• Addressing diversity in classroom
• The multicultural curriculum
4. DISABILITY & INCLUSION (HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE) AND LEARNING PROBLEMS
1. Meaning of children with special needs (CWSM)
2. Disability: concept
3. The historical and contemporary perspective of disability and inclusion
4. Historical perspective of disability and inclusive education in India
5. Signs and symptoms of learning disabilities and disorder
6. Range (types) of learning disabilities
5. TYPES OF DISABILITIES
1. The important types of disabilities
2. The main causes of disabilities
3. Relationship between impairment, disability and handicap
4. Dimensions of disability
• Physical dimensions
• Mental or intellectual dimension
6. VISUAL DISABILITY
1. Meaning and definition
2. Types of visually impaired children
3. Identification of visually impaired children
4. Problems of visually impaired
5. Causes of visual impaired
6. Educational needs of visually impaired
7. HEARING DISABILITY
1. Hearing disability
8. MENTAL RETARDATION
1. Meaning and definition of mental retardation/ intellectual impairment
2. Types of intellectually impaired children
3. Identification of mental retardation
4. Characteristics of intellectually impaired children
5. Intervention strategies
• For Slow Learners
• Intervention strategies for mentally retarded children
6. Organization of teaching strategies
9. LOCOMOTOR DISABILITY
1. Meaning and definition
2. Types of locomotor disability
3. Identification of locomotor disability
4. Problems of locomotor/ orthopaedic handicapped
5. Etiology of locomotor impairment
6. Needs of the locomotor handicaps
• Educational needs of the locomotor handicaps
• Educational programmes for the locomotor handicaps
10. NEUROLOGICAL DISABILITY
1. Neurological disorders
• Causes of neurological disorders
2. Autism spectrum disorder
3. Cerebral palsy
• Meaning and definition
• Characteristics of cerebral palsy
• Causes of cerebral palsy
• Types of cerebral palsy
• Problems associated with cerebral palsy
• Treatment and management
4. Attention- deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Characteristics/ features of ADHD
11. LEARNING DISABILITY
1. Meaning and definition
2. General characteristics of learning disabled
3. The main forms of learning disabilities
• Dyslexia
• Dysgraphia
• Dyscalculia
12. MULTIPLE DISABILITY
1. Introduction
2. Types of multiple disabilities
3. Characteristics of multiple handicaps
4. Etiology of Multiple Handicaps
5. Provisions to meet educational needs of multiple disabled
6. Organization of educational strategies
13. ASSISTIVE AND ADAPTATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN INCLUSIVE SET-UP
1. Introduction
2. Assistive technology
3. Benefits of assistive technologies
4. Assistive and adaptive technologies
5. Use of assistive technology for intellectually disabled children
6. Technology for visually disabled children
7. Technology for children with learning disability
8. Technology for hearing disabled children
9. Additional assistive technology
10. Technology for physically disabled children
11. Technologies for children with speech and language disorders
12. Barriers to assistive technology
14. ADAPTATION AND ACCOMODATION ACCORDING TO VARIOUS DISABILITIES
1. Standards/ measures of curriculum development
2. Types of accommodations
3. Curricular accommodations
4. Instructional accommodations
5. Requisite changes in the instructional conditions
15. EDUCATIONAL PROVISIONS FOR THE DISABLED IN INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION AND CONVENTIONS
1. Salamanca Statement and Framework of Action, 1994
2. UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), 2006
16. EDUCATIONAL PROVISIONS FOR THE DISABILITIES IN POLICIES
17. THE NATIONAL POLICY OF EDUCATION (1986) AND PLAN OF ACTION (POA) - 1992
1. Introduction
2. Merits of the policy
3. Limitations of the policy
4. Plan of action (POA) - 1992
18. PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, 1995
1. Introduction
2. Focus of the persons with disability act, 1995
3. Administrations and implementation
19. REHABILITATION COUNCIL OF INDIA ACT, 1992
1. Introduction
2. Brief description of the RCI, 1992
20. NATIONAL POLICY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, 2006
1. Introduction
2. National policy for persons with disabilities act, 2006
• The basic tenets of the policy
• Principal areas of intervention
21. EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES IN RIGHT TO EDUCATION (RTE) ACT, 2009
22. SCHOOL ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF AN INCLUSIVE SCHOOL
1. Concepts of an inclusive school
2. Infrastructure and accessibility
3. Gender equality in inclusive school
• Lack of social status
• Gender and inclusive education
• A gender inclusive education
• Gender-responsive inclusive education
4. Characteristics of an inclusive school
• Characteristics of an inclusive classroom
• Managing/ organizing inclusive school
• Organizing inclusive school
23. ROLE OF TEACHERS AND CO-TEACHING PERSONNEL: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
1. Need for multidisciplinary approach in inclusive education
2. Multidisciplinary team approach
3. Role and responsibilities of teachers
4. Role of a teacher
5. Role of a special teacher
• Role and responsibility of teacher dealing with visually impaired
• Role and responsibilities of teacher dealing with hearing impaired
• Role and responsibilities of teacher dealing with orthopaedic handicapped
• Role and responsibilities of teacher dealing with learning disabled children
• Role and responsibilities of teacher dealing with children with cerebral palsy
• Role and responsibilities of teacher dealing with multiple disabilities
• Role and responsibilities of teacher dealing with intellectual disabilities
6. Role of a resource teacher
• Role and responsibility of resource teacher for hearing impaired children
• Role and responsibility of resource teacher for visually impaired and low vision children
• Role and responsibility of resource teacher in dealing with learning disabled children
7. Role of a teacher assistant
24. SUPPORT SERVICES
1. Support services of different professional/ experts
• Speech therapist
• Occupational therapist
• Physiotherapist
• Counsellor
25. MAKING LEARNING MORE MEANININGFUL FOR SPECIAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS
1. Guidelines for selecting meaningful educational strategies or programmes for students with special needs
2. Special strategies for special children
26. PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES TO RESPOND TP LEARNERS’ INDIVIDUAL NEEDS
1. Introduction
2. The essence of inclusive and effective pedagogy
3. Principles of inclusive pedagogy
4. Important points of inclusive pedagogy
5. Teaching-Learning strategies
6. Peer-Tutoring
• Psychology of peer-tutoring
• Defining peer-tutoring
• Steps for peer tutoring programme
• Selection of partners and goals: tutors and tutees
• Types of peer-tutoring
• Advantages of peer-tutoring
27. TEACHING- LEARNING STRATEGIES: CO-OPERATIVE LEARNING
1. Co-operative learning
2. Elements of co-operative learning
3. Inclusion and co-operative learning
4. Principles of inclusive co-operative learning
5. Co-operative learning provides opportunities for ongoing evaluation
28. TEACHING-LEARNING STRATEGIES: SOCIAL LEARNING, MULTISENSORY LEARNING, BUDDY SYSTEM AND REFLECTIVE TEACHING
1. Social learning
• Basic assumptions of social learning
• Significance of social learning
• Types of modeling
• Process of social learning (modeling)
• Educational implications
2. Multisensory learning
3. Buddy system
• Meaning of buddy system
• Benefits of buddy system
• Responsibilities of a peer buddy
• Essentials for the successful implementation of buddy systems
4. Reflective teaching
• Reflective teaching and inclusive classrooms
• Role of teacher for reflecting teaching in inclusive classroom
• Benefits of reflective teaching
29. PROVISIONS FOR FACILITATING DIFFERENTLY ABLED IN EXAMINATION BY CBSE AND ICSE
30. CCE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TO FACILITIES INCLUSION