Models of Inclusion
Inclusion describes the efforts to keep students with diverse learning and behaviour needs in the classrooms and schools they would normally attend with their 'Age-level peers'. The voice for inclusive education was raised by the humanists as well as the educationists. It is now considered to be the supplementary to the successful social system.
A teaching model is a plan, specimen or guidelines which help a teacher in creating and managing educational activities and environments to achieve goals of education. Some models are necessary to ensure the success of proper inclusion ineducation.
These models are as follows -
1. Full Inclusion Model
This model is the most noteworthy model in Inclusive education.
A special teacher is appointed for the disabled students in normal school.
Special teacher provides support to the general teacher by team-teaching or collaboration. In collaborative co-teaching there is shared responsibility between the regular teacher and the special education teacher.
2. Team Teaching Model
Special teacher and regular teacher work together and teach the students in one classroom.
There should be understanding between normal and special teacher and they should work in team and consider each other equal.
There should be no communication gaps among the team members.
It develops a sense of self-esteem, self-confidence and self-reliance among children with disabilities.
Teacher also gets satisfaction and a feeling of dutifulness in real sense.
3. Wange's Adaptive Learning Environment Model
Here, the teacher focuses upon the formation of intellectual skills in students so that they can learn on their own pace and are able to involve themselves in the classroom activities freely.
Teacher is always active to provide learning experience to the students.
4. Strategies Intervention Model
When a student learns from social interaction, only then he is able to develop his abilities/potential.
Curriculum works as a helping aid for students.
Special students are trained to work together with normal students.
This model has three step strategy intervention curriculum as follows -
It awares students about the curriculum.
Main focus is on the teaching method. First pre-knowledge of students is tested and then lesson plan is prepared accordingly.
It focuses on teaching social-interaction and how to work together in a team.
5. Circle of Inclusion Model
It focuses on personal knowledge of students.
It is used for pre-primary students (upto age of 8 years)
Teachers, parents and other education related person help together in student's learning.
It teaches social, emotional and interpersonal skills.
It makes sure that every student gets maximum benefits of Inclusion.
Here active participation of students is important.