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: 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. “ 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.