Week 3: Everyone can do something

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7. Tackling specific inclusivity challenges

Inclusivity is more important than it ever has been in today’s ever-increasingly global, multicultural and politicially sensitive times, yet including everyone can be challenging. During a workshop on inclusive education, lecturers at the Kenyan Institute for Special Education identified some of the common inclusivity challenges that teachers face. They are:

  • Poor learning behaviours
  • Low literacy levels
  • Poor speech and language
  • Hearing impairment
  • Low numeracy levels,
  • Visual impairment
  • Being in a large class
  • Physical disabilities
  • Specific learning difficulties
  • Difficult home lives
  • Hunger and/or poverty.
Activity 3.7 Inclusivity challenges

Allow approximately 45 mins for this two-part activity.

Part 1: Thinking about your context

  1. Identify the three challenges which are most significant in your own context. Share these on the Week 3 forum with one idea about how to tackle each one.
  2. Which of the challenges you have listed require input from specialists?
  3. For each of these, write down in your study notebook two or three things that a class teacher could do to support those children if specialist help was not available?

For example, for a visually impaired child, the teacher could write larger, identify a ‘buddy’, and ensure they are sitting at the front. For a physically disabled child a teacher could review the lay-out of the classroom to ensure they can move about safely.


Part 2: Case study

Read Case study 2: Difficult home circumstances.

Identify the ways in which the teacher is inclusive and supports Mogas and write them in your study notebook.
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