From my experience of coordinating the English Area in schools and of supervising prospective teachers in different institutions, private and public, I have seen the increasing need of responding to the different and varied situations that we encounter in our classrooms.
From everyday misbehavior problems to serious cases of children or adolescents who find it hard to be part of what's going on in the class, many of us share our concern for problems like these.
The nature of this lack of integration can be multifold. Some causes for this may be related to the personality of the students, or some disability they have; another reason may be classroom management problems on the part of the teacher; another reason might be related to institutional issues; but there could be others.
In this blog I hope that we, teachers of English as a foreign/second language can find a space for discussion and sharing. I hope we can share information, rules and regulations regarding Inclusion in different places of the world that could be useful to our contexts and, of course classroom experiences that can enlighten us in this area.
The following video shows a case of inclusion, and although it's not in the class of English as a foreign language, it shows interesting strategies to use in any class subject as well.
Hope you enjoy it and expect to hear your comments.
