Inclusive Education and the Learning Outcomes

Inclusive Education had been one of the most important vision in every educational matter that could improve and achieve the teaching and learning process. In this discussion, it is very important to know that promoting inclusive education in the teaching and learning process could result in a successful outcome and beneficial to students, but specifically, this discussion will be base on how to improve the learning outcome through inclusive classroom.

Firstly, it is important to fully understand the meaning of inclusive classroom and the learning outcome. An inclusive classroom climate refers to an environment where all students feel supported intellectually and academically and are extended a sense of belonging in the classroom regardless of identity, learning preferences, or education. Such environments are sustained when teachers and students work together for thoughtfulness, respect, and academic excellence, and are key to encouraging the academic success of all students. Many researchers dominantly indicates that many students may be more likely to prosper academically in settings with more collaborative modes of learning that acknowledge students’ personal experiences.

Valamis (2020) says that the Learning outcome is measurable achievements that the learner will be able to understand after the learning is complete, which helps learners understand the importance of the information and what they will gain from their engagement with the learning activity.

Secondly, how to promote inclusion classroom in order to improve the learning outcomes. To promote inclusion classroom, it is important to make it personal where you provide opportunities for students to share their own experiences and perspectives. In addition, you could include various perspectives in providing a variety of perspectives on the topics you teach. It is also important to understand your students to the best of your ability and try to develop ideas that can involve all of your students, especially those who may bring a unique perspective. Furthermore, use inclusive based approach that could accommodate students’ unique needs for instance using strength-based approach in accommodating a student to develop their strengths and see that student with special needs have strengths too. Focus on progress, no matter how small.

Thirdly, the learning outcome could not be improved by some of the gender norms of the instructor or a teacher. One of this normality is stereotyping. Some teachers find it difficult to teach when there are aggressive students among the students, so the teacher could provide activities differently to them in order to make the teaching easier for him/her and sometimes teachers ignore aggressive students. This type of strategy in teaching is not helpful in improving the learning outcomes to students for some of the students could achieve the learning and some are not.

In these situations of promoting inclusion classroom, it could promote in improving the learning outcome because if you didn’t see students differently in your classroom or learning environment and cater to their different unique needs, students are supposed to achieve the learning outcomes of the topic at the end of the lesson. For example, if you cater to students’ needs excluding aggressive students and disabilities students, only students you cater for their needs supposed to achieve the learning outcomes except those aggressive and disabilities students. In addition, it is very important to make your learning outcomes inclusive where the learning could accommodate diverse students’ needs in the learning environments, and that could helpful more in improving the learning outcome. 

In my experience in real situation, there is a common habit that teachers always do in their teaching strategy, which is ignoring aggressive students. In this situation, they ignore aggressive students in the learning process for they could affect other students learning. I was sure that teachers do know this strategy that it is not inclusive, but they want to do it for not getting them tired of these students. And this is not a good practice for being a teacher and also doesn’t promote in improving the learning outcome.

To conclude, it is clearly portrayed that promoting inclusion classroom could definitely improve the learning outcome. And it is also emphasized that the learning outcomes could not be improved without an inclusion classroom. So, it is important, and it is a must to practice promoting inclusion environment in the learning process in order to make students achieved the learning outcomes. In addition, it is recommended that it is important that you understand your students to the best of your ability and respect their talents in order to provide activities that could cater and accommodate their needs to develop their strengths. Overall, it is convinced that having an inclusion classroom as a learning environment could definitely improve the learning outcomes by the achievement of students intellectually and academically to the learning outcomes.

 

References

1.      Valamis. (2020, June 17). Learning Outcomes: Types, Examples, Verbs | Outcomes vs Objectives. https://www.valamis.com/hub/learning-outcomes

2.      Foundation. (2019, December 31). Inclusive classrooms: A primer for teachers. https://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/inclusive-classrooms