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Giselle Girod Post 1

23 April 2021, 10:20 PM

Professional Development

I was fortunate to participate in many professional development training at my inception into the teaching service. However, the training that impacted in my career was title 'Induction' which I found to very effective and helpful in my daily practice. It made a difference because initially I viewed inclusion as integration whereby allowing suspected children with disabilities to be included but not participate in extra-curricula activities. Often times when I had to cater for children with disabilities, I would have simply lower my expectations and provide a completely different assessment without differentiating the instruction. However, after participating in this workshop it was revealed that the instruction should be delivered with the student in mind to achieve the same outcome but by using differentiated instruction and the assessment can be the same as the other students in the classroom. In addition, if it is necessary, more time can be given to any child with disability to grasp the concept being taught because of their rate of processing information is slower it does not mean that they cannot learn in the general school population. Therefore, I have become more committed to gaining more knowledge to better enhance my awareness of promoting inclusion.