Disability is the single most serious barrier to education across the globe.

An estimated 93 million
children worldwide live with disabilities. Like all children, children with disabilities have ambitions and
dreams for their futures. Like all children, they need quality education to develop their skills and realize
their full potential.

Nearly 50 percent of children with disabilities are not in school, compared to only 13 percent of their
peers without disabilities. Robbed of their right to learn, children with disabilities are often denied the
chance to take part in their communities, the workforce and the decisions that most affect them.

Yet, children with disabilities are often overlooked in policymaking, limiting their access to education
and their ability to participate in social, economic and political life. Worldwide, these children are among
the most likely to be out of school. They face persistent barriers to education stemming from
discrimination, stigma and the routine failure of decision makers to incorporate disability in school
services.

Inclusive education is the most effective way to give all children a fair chance to go to school, learn and
develop the skills they need to thrive.

Inclusive education is about embracing all, making a commitment to do whatever it takes to provide
each student in the community - and each citizen in a democracy - an inalienable right to belong, not to
be excluded. Inclusion assumes that living and learning together is a better way that benefits everyone,
not just children who are labeled as having a difference. (Falvey, Givner & Kimm, What is an Inclusive

School?, 1995, p.8)

Inclusive systems value the unique contributions students of all backgrounds bring to the classroom and
allow diverse groups to grow side by side, to the benefit of all. But progress comes slowly. Inclusive
systems require changes at all levels of society. That's why promoting inclusion in school through a
poster which tackles our Inclusive Classroom Management Plan is another simple yet helpful way to
help strengthen the adaptation and implementation of inclusion in our country.

Objectives

a. To promote Inclusiveness.

b. To provide all types of students with the most appropriate learning environment and opportunities
for them to achieve their full potential.

c. To improve teachers' competences and practices for inclusive education; and

d. To raise awareness of the benefits of inclusive education in school grounds as well as for the public to
be the best decision makers for the future and years beyond.

Our future Inclusive Classroom Management Plan is somewhat like the poster above. Base on the
poster, you can see in the head (which head represents thinking about the future) of that person
wherein the students with and without learning differences learn together. You can see that our
classroom set up are the following:

•Placing Student Desks in Groups— Putting desks in small groups (2–4 desks per group) so that all
students have the opportunity for cooperative learning, collaboration, and discussion. As well, place the
teacher's desk on the periphery of the classroom. Teachers in an inclusive class rarely sit down during
their day and don't need their desks getting in the way!

•Creating Classroom Decor—An inclusive classroom needs to be decorated in a way that does not create
distraction and sensory overload. Too many bright colors, posters, clutter, and furniture can easily
distract the most focused child!

•Having Meeting Spot—Creating one area of the classroom where the students can come together to
have discussions, develop social skills, and participate in large group activities. This space must have
enough room for all the students to gather.

•Providing Centers— Centers appeal to various learning styles, but they must be accessible and open. As
well, the materials and manipulatives at each center must be appropriate and stored where all students
can reach them. Placing books on a high shelf is limiting for a smaller student or one who is in a
wheelchair.

•Having Safety/Emergency Preparedness—Ensure adequate space for all students to move safely
around the room. Clear clutter, stabilize furniture, tape down wires and cables, and place signs and
symbols around the room that point out exit and entry ways in case of an emergency.

And also, below are some of our plan for classroom procedures:

•Create a structured classroom. This may include designating separate areas for group and individual
work and centers for reading or art, as well as creating a daily class schedule.

•Display classroom rules.

•Post the daily schedule incorporating color.

•Provide opportunities for purposeful movement.

•Develop classroom cues for settling down to work, getting out materials, and quieting down.

•Plan for transition times (between subjects or tasks, before and after lunch, changing classes).
•Help students organize their materials by using checklists, folders, and containers to keep materials
organized in desks.

•Visually monitor student activity.

Base on the poster, you can see also our classroom rules in the rays of the sun. Below are some of the
most important classroom rules we've been planning:

•Be kind to others. Use “Please” and “Thank-you” often. Be courteous and model kindness.

•Share to others. Children need to learn to share so they can make and keep friends, play cooperatively,
take turns, negotiate and cope with disappointment. Sharing teaches children about compromise and
fairness. They learn that if we give a little to others, we can get some of what we want too.

•Respect everyone. Receiving respect in the classroom from others is important because it helps us to
feel safe and to express ourselves. Respect means that you accept somebody for who they are, even
when they're different from you or you don't agree with them. Respect in your relationships builds
feelings of trust, safety, and wellbeing.

•Be a good listener. Listen to each other. Listen if a classmate tells you he/she is being bullied, doesn’t
understand, is having a bad day, or didn’t eat breakfast.

•Help each other. Helping others is not only good for them and a good thing to do, it also makes us
happier and healthier too. Giving also connects us to others, creating stronger communities and helping
to build a happier society for everyone. And it's not all about money - we can also give our time, ideas
and energy.

Below are other symbols in the poster and its meaning:

•Dove means purity and peace if we achieve a classroom where students with or without disabilities
learn together and no discrimination or exclusion will happen.

•Disabled hand with other colorful hands means inclusion and happiness

•Shaking hands means building relationships and friendships.

•Philippine flag means that we should implement well the inclusion in our country which is Philippines.

•The light of the torch symbolizes knowledge and wisdom and is seen to illuminate the dark world
through learning, scholarship, teaching, invention, observation, and study.

•Eyes close symbolizes looking forward to the future as a teacher.