Keys To Inclusion

Description

How can we interrupt the isolation of disabled, challenging and other ‘different’ children and adults?

This is our lead workshop/training day and is both a values primer and a practical guide to successful strategies for developing inclusive practice in educational and non educational settings for children and young people of all ages. This is practical plus being a ‘hearts and minds’ day.

What does inclusion mean? Can we imagine what an inclusive school look like? What do we have to do?

The day gives those present opportunities to reflect on their attitudes and practice in relation to the inclusion of children and adults who are different or challenging.

The Keys can be presented as a powerful interactive Keynote for large conferences. A great way to launch a conference as the first key is ‘welcome’.

Learning Objectives

1. Increased confidence regarding developing inclusive practice in mainstream schools and other settings
2. Access to a wider range of practical strategies to impact on behaviour problems
3. Deeper understanding of core values surrounding inclusion of disabled and challenging children and adults
4. Opportunity to reflect on professional attitudes and behaviour towards parents and pupils
5. New skills and processes to make inclusion successful

Course Content

The course answers the questions :

• Why inclusion?
• What is inclusion?
• How do we go about including high profile children or young people?
• What does inclusion have to do with me?

Best delivered over the course of a full day, ‘Keys to Inclusion’ introduces participants to 6 guiding Ideas that underpin inclusive practice.

• The importance of WELCOME
• Inclusion is about Adults’ learning
• Taking the Long View
• Giftedness as a new paradigm for understanding disability and difference
• The Intentional Building of Relationships – ‘Circle of Friends’ work as an example of this
• Not doing it alone – the importance of Teams in developing inclusive practice.