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The document discusses strategies for creating an inclusive classroom environment, including using cultural quilts, bio cards, word walls, graphic organizers, card partners, and talk moves. These strategies aim to help students understand each other better, bridge gaps in understanding, and promote engagement and discussion. The goal is for students to consider different influences and perspectives to create a more accepting and community-based learning environment.

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Inclusive Strategies

The document discusses strategies for creating an inclusive classroom environment, including using cultural quilts, bio cards, word walls, graphic organizers, card partners, and talk moves. These strategies aim to help students understand each other better, bridge gaps in understanding, and promote engagement and discussion. The goal is for students to consider different influences and perspectives to create a more accepting and community-based learning environment.

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INCLUSIVE STRATEGIES 1

Faith Calvo
Community and Family Engagement Plan
Part 5: Inclusive Strategies

There are many ways a teacher can provide ways to ensure that education is
inclusive, however one thing must be clear: inclusivity goes beyond scaffolding
and differentiation in a lesson. As Salend(2016) states, “Inclusion is a
philosophy that brings diverse students, families, educators, and community
members together to create schools and other social institutions based on
acceptance, belonging, and community” (pg. 5). Inclusion is a way that I want
to see the world, eventually- where people are joined together to create a
sustainable, uplifting environment. The philosophy also includes
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory of Development.
Bronfenbrenner’s theory asks to look at the many influences that affect a
child. There are 5 different levels the microsystem, the mesosystem, the
exosystem, the macrosystem, and the chronosystem. Each of these systems
affect a person’s development. When asking our students and even ourselves
to create an inclusive environment, we ask that students begin to take into
consideration all these influences. To assist students in creating these
considerations and bridging gaps of misunderstandings, I believe that the
following strategies may assist.

Strategy Explanation Rational


INCLUSIVE STRATEGIES 2

Students can begin to understand one another; it


The Cultural Quilt is a survey that each
also serves as a way for teachers to get to know
Cultural Quilt individual can fill out with different
their students better. This way teachers can more
aspects of themselves.
appropriately respond to instruction.

The CLD bio card is a survey in assisting


Sociocultural and academic are the dimensions that
an educator in getting to understand each
the bio card works in and bridges their background
student’s four-dimensional biography.
knowledge. It also assists educators in knowing the
Bio Cards These four dimensions include;
student’s preferred grouping style which aids in
linguistic, academic, cognitive, and
how the student will learn best. As an educator, it is
sociocultural (Herra & Murray, 2005, pg
essential to understand our CLD students fully.
11).

A word wall is a point of reference in the


The word wall can be used with keywords for the
classroom that can be used in many
unit, or high-frequency words. As it will be a tool
different ways. It’s usually a table that
Word Wall for students to use throughout the school year, it
can include the translation of words in a
bridges a gap that usually leaves our emerging
different language and the student made
bilingual and special education students.
definition of the word.

G.O. provide a visual representation of written


information. They can be used to assist in memory
Graphic organizers can be set up in many
for the students who need that assistance. They also
Graphic Organizer different ways; such as paragraph
allow the students to begin to organize their
(G.O) writing, note taking, presentation
thoughts in a more concrete way- thus G.O’s allow
organizing, research notes, etc.
the transition from concrete to abstract to be a little
smoother..

This strategy can be extremely varied. In


order to create a more inclusive
classroom. Card partners is having a card Card Partners promote student engagement and- if
with the same number; max of 3 people done randomly- allows students to talk to other
per partner. This can also be used in students they normally wouldn’t. I have also found
Card Partners
games as well. In this case students can that it promotes comradery in the classroom.
be grouped by card color, or card suit.
This also works like sticks when calling
out a person in class- that person
becomes their card.

Talk moves is a strategy used to facilitate Talk moves open up classroom discussion, so
classroom discussion in a meaningful children are free to agree or disagree, respectfully.
Productive Talk way. These talk moves allow students to Every student remains accountable for classroom
Moves paraphrase and clarify their discussion, as each student can repeat another in
understandings. Some talk moves their own words.
include: Students create opportunities to clarify their
INCLUSIVE STRATEGIES 3

“I disagree with what (name of other thinking, consider and test other strategies,
student) said because______.” investigate relationships, build a plethora of
efficient strategies based off another student- lead
“I agree with what (name of another strategies and make decisions about choosing the
student) said because______.” most efficient strategies for specific problems.
Students teach one another and gain more in-depth
“Can you give an example?” understanding.

“Why did you think that?”

The point is to have students begin to


facilitate discussions.

Salend, S. J. (2016). Creating Inclusive Classrooms: Effective, Differentiated, and


Reflective Practices. Boston.: Pearson

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