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: The Century Foundation also references data showing integrated schooling closes the achievement gap, and allows more equal access to facilities, resources and highly-trained teachers. Recent demographic changes point to an increased potential for integrated academic communities, as urban areas gentrify and more families of color move into historically white majority suburbs. But school districts should not rely on ever-evolving neighborhood conditions to ensure racial diversity. Below, read about 7 ways education leaders can work to create inclusive academic settings that support young students of all races and economic classes. Academic Support
Inclusive Learning recommends schools provide academic support services to ensure all students have the opportunity to thrive. Flexible pacing, reading specialists and tutoring can be especially helpful to students with learning differences or who speak English as a second language. Prepare Teachers
Highly trained teachers are vital to educating students about privilege and oppression. But according to a piece from Counseling@NYU, which offers an online masters in school counseling from NYU Steinhardt, many teachers do not have enough of an understanding of these topics to properly support students. “I think that educators — whoever is holding the discussion — have to be competent about privilege, power and oppression and aware of how race impacts the greater society — not just the schools themselves,” says Joseph Feola, a school counselor at Manhattan’s Stuyvesant High School and adjunct professor in the NYU Steinhardt program. “ When it comes to districts providing training for teachers and counselors,” he said. “