UNIT 1: INCLUSIVE ENGLISH

Look at the followingCLASSROOMS

picture. What does this image suggests to you?

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Individual Reflection
1. What was the situation for kids with special needs when you were in your school
years? Were the kids with special needs segregated or included? What were
your experiences around this issue? What messages did you receive about
difference? Why?

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It is 6.55 A.M. and Fabricio Pérez, the sixth grade English teacher
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is ready for his class with 601. He feels worried because this group
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has not been very easy. There are 43 students including one with a
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vision difficulty and another one with hearing deficiency. He goes to
2. What does inclusionthe classroom
mean and. How
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Students politically,
are organized in lines
socially, and economically?
and individually receive a paper with a paragraph which describes an
unknown person´s daily routine. Fabricio standing in front of the
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class asks his students to read the paragraph in silence. After that,
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Fabricio explains the grammar rules (Simple Present Structure),
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writing one example of a negative an a positive statement on the
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board. Then, he asks students to write a similar paragraph about
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3. What positive actions can you highlight in Fabricio
their Monday´s routine. After some time he asked them if they are
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finished, some of the students express to have done it, so he asks
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some volunteers to read __________________________________________
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aloud, only some of the “best” students
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volunteer and unfortunately there is no more time to listen to more
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What messages do youstudents.
want to Finally,
impartFabricio pickschildren
to today’s up the notebooks becauseHow
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and families? although
might
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you do that? he knows this is a lot of work, he thinks there is no another way to
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know if all his students are achieving the goals established in the
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