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Improving inclusion in my school: what to do and what to avoid

Quick guide for teachers – For all school levels

Dario Ianes, Silvia Dell’Anna

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 14x21cm

Pages: 136

ISBN: 9788859041801

Publication date: 01/03/2025

Suitable for: Primary 1st level (ages 6-7), Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10), Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)


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This practical guide from the What to do and what to avoid series is designed for teachers of all school levels. It provides clear, simple, and immediately applicable suggestions and strategies — a real working method to enhance inclusion in the classroom. The book is divided into 14 chapters, grouped into three main sections, each addressing a different aspect of school inclusion.

What to do and what to avoid
Each chapter includes a brief overview of a specific behavior (what to keep in mind), indications on the intervention (how to intervene), suggestions and insights (advice of the expert and in-depth analysis). The teacher will be guided towards understanding the situations described through emotional, cognitive and behavioural reading.


Engaging All Stakeholders in the System
Creating motivation and consensus
Activating participatory decision-making processes
Involving pupils
Engaging families and the community

Observing, Analysing, and Understanding the School's Overall Situation
Attitudinal aspects
Organisational and managerial aspects
Classroom teaching and educational interventions
Socio-relational aspects and well-being
Learning processes
Connecting and interpreting collected data

Planning and Implementing Improvement Actions
From analysis to priority objectives
From objectives to improvement actions and strategies
Monitoring progress and evaluating outcomes
Communicating and promoting results



Improving inclusion in my school - What to do and what to avoid

Quick guide for teachers

For all school grades


 

In the style of a Teacher Training notebook, this is a quick guide for teachers of all school levels who want to enhance inclusion in their classrooms. It provides clear, simple, and immediately applicable suggestions and strategies addressing  different aspects of school inclusion.

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BOOK STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS

Improving inclusion in my school – What to do and what to avoid  is divided into 14 chapters, grouped into three main sections:

  1. Engaging All Stakeholders in the System
  • Creating motivation and consensus
  • Activating participatory decision-making processes
  • Involving pupils
  • Engaging families and the community
  1. Observing, Analysing, and Understanding the School's Overall Situation
  • Attitudinal aspects
  • Organisational and managerial aspects
  • Classroom teaching and educational interventions
  • Socio-relational aspects and well-being Learning processes
  • Connecting and interpreting collected data
  1. Planning and Implementing Improvement Actions
  • From analysis to priority objectives
  • From objectives to improvement actions and strategies
  • Monitoring progress and evaluating outcomes
  • Communicating and promoting results

Each chapter contains

At the beginning of each chapter, an illustration introduces the analysed characteristic.

Explanations of the strategyWhy is it important?

Brief and simple indications that can be useful to the teacher as a reference point for deciding What to do and reflect on What to avoid.

more in-depth description of the specific characteristicbeing worked on.

The tools to create the intervention: Practical Guidelines.

Each chapter closes with advice and suggestions from the expert to further understand and enrich the teacher’s “briefcase of educational tools”.

Leaf through some pages, which have been translated into English to facilitate your evaluation:

THE AUTHORS

Dario Ianes, full Professor of Inclusive Pedagogy at the Faculty of Education Sciences at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and co-founder of the Erickson Study Centre in Trento.

Silvia Dell’Anna, researcher at the Faculty of Education Sciences at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Her research interests focus on inclusive education, with particular attention to evaluating the quality of an inclusive school system, designing inclusive teaching strategies, and preventing educational poverty, academic failure, and early school dropout.

 

Discover all the volumes of the series What to do and what to avoid