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Examples
of school priorities using the Index for Inclusion
- Developing strategies
through the curriculum to develop students’ self esteem.
- Introducing staff
development activities for making lessons more responsive to diversity.
- Enhancing the ownership
and participation of all members of the school community.
- Devising a staff
development program that focussed on understanding students’ perspectives.
- Promoting positive
multicultural attitudes in school to help counter racism among some
students and their families.
- Promoting within
the school community, positive attitudes to diversity in order to emphasise
the value of individuals and enhance partnerships among staff, students
and their families.
- Arranging collaborative
training for learning support personnel.
- Developing ways
to encourage more collaborative learning amongst students.
- Developing ways
to encourage more collaborative problem and learning among staff.
- Improving communication
between home and school by working with parents/ carers.
- Addressing the
perception that the school has a bad reputation amongst local communities.
- Reviewing the ways
in which school policies are debated with all stakeholders.
- Reviewing the school’s
anti- bullying policy.
- Improving the induction
processes for new students.
- Improving the induction
and mentoring processes for new staff members.
- Creating, maintaining
and reviewing the culture of a learning community with all stakeholders.
- Collecting information
re community profile and shared vision to aid curriculum planning eg
Whole School Literacy Strategy.
- Reflecting on areas
eg professional learning and pedagogy to inform professional development
imperatives.
- Build community
profile- light sample, identify a trend &move into identified areas
in detail.
- Conduct an audit
of teaching skills (volunteers). Need extra time to plan?- try more
group work and cooperative learning, collaborative
planning and
reflect on how effectively time is used
- Audit of inclusive
policies, culture and practices within a school/ cluster of schools
through surveys, discussions.
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