Developing an Inclusive Plan
Choose any subject area and grade level for the lesson plan you create. Consider the needs of the population of your classroom to plan effectively for the students. If you are currently not teaching, imagine a fictitious classroom.
Incorporate strategies to use to best meet the needs of the students and the purpose of the lesson. Apply one or more theories to construct learning activities for your inclusive classroom. Classroom population, description, and guidelines (headers) to include in your inclusive lesson plan are listed below:
Classroom Scenario
There are 20 students in the class. Two of the students are identified as having a learning disability and have IEPs. One student goes to the resource room for reading and writing instruction as a pull-out program. The other student has an IEP, but the special education comes to the classroom once a week to make sure the student is doing well using accommodations to access the classroom materials and curriculum. The second student needs manipulatives to complete most assignments.
One student has ADHD and has a 504 plan. The student with ADHD needs personal space sometimes to calm down and be able to focus.
Two students are in a speech/language program with the speech therapist. These students go to the speech therapy room two times a week and have an IEP for their speech/language issues.
Three of the students are identified as English Language Learners. Two of the students in the ELL program are reading English at the primary level and are emergent speakers. The third student in the ELL program just arrived in your classroom and only speaks his native language. The ELL teacher comes to your class often to offer ideas and work with the students in the program in a small group. The ELL teacher is available to assist you in co-teaching as time allows.
Current Issues:
One student is starting to act out and has some behavior issues that have not been seen before.
The remaining students are typical learners, but are all at different levels of achievement.
Lesson Outline:
Subject Area (Identify your subject area)
Grade level or grade range
Topic of lesson plan
Rationale:
What is the purpose of the lesson? Rationales can be themes or topics that correspond to student interest or developmental levels. Rationales are sometimes related to cultural, local, or holiday, etc. topics. In your rationale, describe how your rationale fosters integration and inclusiveness for your class.
Materials needed for lesson:
Lesson objective(s): What specific learning objective will the students have to master or make progress on by the end of the lesson? Use Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs to write our objective. The objective must be one that is both measurable and observable.
Anticipatory Set/Focus:
Description of the learning activity
Closure of lesson
Assessment:
Can be authentic, formative, summative, etc.
Choose two instructional principles, theories, and/or strategies that you use with this lesson to meet the needs of a diverse and inclusive classroom. Describe how the chosen principle, theory, and/or strategy could be implemented.
