Improving Student Participation Is A Matter Of Importance

Introduction: In a classroom we come across student diversity in terms of ability, ethnicity and learning needs. Ensuring student participation is a matter of importance, since children are at times deprived of equal right to use inclusive education from early childhood through to adulthood. Inclusive education means eliminating the distinction between special and regular education and giving equal opportunities despite their level of disability. It implies that providing educational facilities to students with additional educational needs which are used by most other students. The word inclusion is based on the idea that schools should satisfy the needs of the children in their communities, whatever the level of their ability,†¦show more content†¦Ã¢â‚¬Å"Inclusion values the active participation of every child as a full member of his or her family, community, and society.† (Cologon, K. 2013). For example, parents of a 12 year old boy with Down syndrome found the community recreati on programs to be inclusive for all children in the family. In the sports programs, the parents felt their son was treated like a group member, with only slight differences. The parents noticed that their son’s self-esteem, habit of physical action, and association with his siblings and peers was enhanced. Children like doing what everyone else does. Children with Down syndrome are no different (Schleien Heyne, 1997). Thus it is imperative to understand that inclusive education is not about just satisfying the needs of ‘special’ children †¦it is not about dumping students into an unchanged organization of provision and practice. Rather, it is about how, where and why, and with what consequences, we educate all pupils (Cologon, K. 2013). Benefits of an inclusion model (students educators) Inclusive education aims to impact a ‘Zero Rejection’ policy. It ensures all children learn and follow a similar curriculum that can be modified according to the needs of the students in a standard, varied classroom with peers of the same age. Inclusion contributes to classroom learning actions and events. It gives students an opportunity to make friends, be social, and eliminate bullying and abuse. In fact, social competence and communication skills