Title: 7 Ways to Create an Inclusive Classroom Environment - ASCD Inservice
Headings: 7 Ways to Create an Inclusive Classroom Environment
7 Ways to Create an Inclusive Classroom Environment
Content: We’re not doing a great job right now.” Teachers without training may also use hurtful language, or perform other micro-aggressions like, as Inclusive Schools points out, mispronouncing names of students of color. For educators to effectively support a community, they need to see themselves as more than conveyors of fact. They need to hold their students to high expectations, prioritize closing the achievement gap, and help their students understand and connect to the world at large. Curriculum
It’s rare for school curriculums to address concepts like privilege, oppression, global power structures and racism. But according to information presented at the Massachusetts Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, this as a key step in combating inequality. By only formally instructing on academic disciplines like math, schools provide students with a knowledge of facts that doesn’t connect to today’s greater world. This type of education gives no counter to prejudiced beliefs white students may encounter at home, in media, or from the world at large, and no context for students of color to make sense of their own experiences in our current society. Integrate Student Bodies
Many measures have been proposed to integrate student body populations, from voluntary transfer programs to redrawing school neighborhood boundaries. The Century Foundation suggests federal and state incentives for districts that assume these kind of redistricting policies.