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Week 3: Creating a learning organisation

4. Monitoring progress towards creating an inclusive school

4.1. Monitoring inclusiveness

There are many different ways in which a school can monitor inclusivity.

What form the monitoring actually takes will depend on the context, but every school will need structures and processes in place to ensure that it takes place. This could include:

  1. A senior member of staff with overall responsibility for inclusivity
  2. Termly questionnaires for parents about aspects of school life
  3. Teachers being encouraged to talk to learners about their experiences in school, and what helps or constrains their learning. This could be through a tutor group system, or through subject departments, or through the sort of activities in the picture above.
  4. A school management committee, in which members take responsibility for looking at one aspect of school life. They could visit the school and become a ‘critical friend’ to a member of staff with responsibility in that area.
  5. Visits from specialist teachers who focus on particular children with profound needs and the feedback they provide to teachers
  6. Visits from Community leaders, which focus on an aspect of school life of particular interest within the local community.
Activity 3.9: Monitoring tools

You are advised to spend 30 mins on this activity

Monitoring a school is a continuous process. Download the 2 examples of monitoring tools that are provided.

Resource 1 / Resource 2

Think about a school with which you are familiar – it could be where you work or have worked in the past. It could be a school your children attend, or one that you work with in your role as an education officer.

Use the downloadable resources to think about how inclusive that school is and how you know?

What other information would you need to gather and how would you gather it?

Is there anything else that you would want to include in the tool, to be confident that the school is working towards being an inclusive school?

Add your suggestion to the Week 3 forum, and comment on two other posts.

Which of the tools do you find the most helpful, or would you prefer to adapt them to create one for your context?

Optional Reading: If you would like to know more about monitoring Inclusive Education, download and read this booklet from UNICEF called 'Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation'

Activity 3.10: End of Week Quiz

You are advised to spend 20 mins on this activity

End-of-week quiz