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Speaking of Inclusion ....
Up one levelInclusion insights, stories and resources for professional development providers as well as practitioners, policy makers and parents. A weekly blog brought to you by the National Professional Development Center on Inclusion. Your comments are invited.
CONNECT Video Clip Whets Student Appetite for More
A community college instructor recently shared that she used the CONNECT Foundations for Early Childhood Inclusion video in her college class to introduce her students to the “big ideas” on the topic of inclusion. To her surprise, some of the students didn’t know that in the not so distant past children with disabilities were excluded from school. They had no idea about the battles that were fought by parents of children with disabilities and advocates to obtain access to education. The video whetted their appetite for more information about Jay Turnbull (featured in the video), and about current rights and laws on inclusion. They were interested to learn that as teachers they have certain rights related to inclusion.
I was able to share information with the community college instructor about an upcoming pilot study of the CONNECT module on embedded interventions which includes information on teachers’ rights for support in implementing inclusion. I also was able to provide a link to an NPR interview with Dr. Ann Turnbull whose account of those days of exclusion is featured on the CONNECT Foundations video.
Community Question
Inclusion is a civil rights issue. Do others have strategies for engaging learners in discussions of inclusion laws and policies?
New Grant Opportunity for Community Colleges
Note: The application deadline for this RFP was November 3, 2009.
