Promoting Inclusion in Early Childhood Education Through Effective Strategies

With a little more awareness now than before, schools and teachers are realising that all children have  the  right  to  inclusion  and  are,  therefore, finding ways to include everyone in the activities that constitute daily life. The challenge, still, is to find activities or create spaces that are available to all children and not design any special activities for CWSN, especially in the early years.

Teachers should also be equipped with the skills of counselling, orienting parents and the community and sensitising children to accepting differences.

This article shows activities are to be planned for all the children in a class. Children need to be part of age-appropriate classrooms for learning, singing, dancing, music, games etc. While there has to be an objective for planning an activity, the aim should not be to assess children for their engagement in each of these. The idea is to provide children with plenty of opportunities and  allow  learning  to  happen.

To improve teacher skills to provide children with plenty of opportunities.

To increase awareness of the right to inclusion.