Education should be inclusive at all levels and ensure the access of disabled children and teenagers to the same general education offered to all. Inclusive Education means all students can fully participate in any mainstream school, college or university. It is a process of addressing and responding to the diversity of needs of all learners. Since English is being taught in most schools and universities, it plays a crucial role in the design of an inclusive curriculum. In this talk we will look at what inclusive Education implies and how we, English teachers, can create meaningful learning experiences for all.

1. INCLUSIVE EDUCATION IN ELT
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Education for All

2. “Learning is discovery”
“People don’t learn in isolation, they do
it with others.
We learn by interacting with others,
because we teach one another and we
all learn from each other.”

3. PABLO PINEDA

4. 93 million children, up to the age of 14, live with a
moderate or severe disability.
The state of the World´s Children – UNICEF 2013
“Children with disabilities are among the world’s most
marginalized and excluded children.”
World Health Organization – World Bank 2011
Education should be inclusive at all levels and it should
ensure equal access to the same general education
offered to all.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 2006

7. Disability is part of the human condition.
Almost everyone will be temporarily or
permanently impaired at some point in
life.
World Health Organization - 2011

12. UNIVERSAL DESIGN
UNIVERSAL CURRICULUM DESIGN

13. “A curriculum with flexible goals,
methods, materials, and
assessments that empowers
educators to meet different needs.”
Joy Egbert

14. Schools and classroom
for All, with All
at All times

15. Ben Goldstein

16. Learning together

17. Living and learning
communities
what how why

18. Universal Curriculum Design
multiple:
ways of
representing
“what”
means of
action &
expression
“how”
reasons
“why”

19. CAST 2011

20. CAST 2011
The goal of education in the 21st century is not
simply the mastery of content knowledge or use of
new technologies.
It is the mastery of the learning process.
Education should help turn learners into expert
learners—individuals who want to learn, who know
how to learn strategically, and who, in their own
highly individual and flexible ways, are well
prepared for a lifetime of learning.

21. Adapting classroom activities to pupils’ needs
Helping pupils to develop their self-confidence, independence, abilities and
attitudes
Speaking to parents and carers about children's progress
Going to meetings and training/online courses
Working with other professionals, such as medical professionals, speech
and language therapists and educational psychologists
Graeme Hodgson
Teacher’s Role

23. Thank you very much!
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questions?

24. The State of the World’s Children 2013 - Children with Disabilities – UNICEF
 Universal Design for Learning Guidelines - CAST (2011).
Para poder trabajar por proyectos de investigación en el aula, primero
debemos conocernos. Maria Jose Parages y Miguel Lopez Melero, 2012
World Report on Disability – World Health Organization – The World Bank
Examples of Inclusive Education – UNICEF 2003
Monitoreo Internacional de los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad –
IDRM 2004
Ecología y nuevo paradigma civilizatorio – Leonardo Boff 2015
El aula inclusiva, el espacio educativo para todos – M. Eugenia Yadarola 2007
The efficiency of inefficiency: an ecological perspective on curriculum –
Kathleen Graves IATELF Plenary 2014
Engagement principles and practice in classroom learning, language and
technology - Joy Egbert IATEFL Plenary 2015
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