REFLECTION 10:- TEACHING FOR INCLUSION

This article really had me. It is so interesting it makes me realize how much I really want to be a teacher. It included strategies that should be used for teaching such as teaching to the individual, getting to know your students from day 1 until, how to have classroom discussions, how to set ground rules, establishing your classroom as a safe zone. Nextly, it included teaching resources such as anecdotes, humor, role-plays and visual aids. It then encouraged group work and debates because it is proven that it opens the minds if children. It then went on to talk about the syllabus, the assignment formats, and the evaluation of students (testing, participation, flexible grading scales and grading criteria). It encourages aspiring teachers to have office hours and that they should not take their personal lives in the classroom. To me it was basically a rule book for teachers and that all activities are centered around the students. It has all the to dos and what not to dos. It opens the eyes of the individuals reading it and makes them know that being a teacher is not an easy task and one should enter the field only because they want to make a difference and no other reason. It teaches us how to establish comfortable environments in the classroom no matter the color, race, language or any other physical aspect of an individual. In conclusion, I think that any individual who has read this article has a changed heart because it gets right to the point and expresses what is needed to be expressed. At this moment, I would not mind waking tomorrow and being a teacher because of how excited and interested I am at present. I would encourage every aspiring teacher to read this and parents too. This would show them how much work is involved with being a teacher and I think society would accept us more for what we do for the leaders of tomorrow rather than finding faults.