WESTERN MINDANAO STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Teacher Education
Bachelor of Elementary Education Department
Name: Salvador, Michelle Jane M.
Year & Section: BECED2-C
Subject: AS9 ECE8
Lesson 4:
EXPERIENCE: Go around your community and observe how your neighbors treat vulnerable citizens
(e.g., PWDs, senior citizens, members of indigenous groups).
Write your observations below. Is their treatment generally positive and inclusive or are they mostly ignored?
-they mostly got ignored when crossing the street usually like not all people will help them to cross the
street. Also in PWDs some people will not give space for them because some will just ignored them.
ASSESS: Using Ainscow, Booth, and Dyson's prescriptive and descriptive definitions, how do you
think does your community define inclusion? Substantiate your answer.
How about you? How do you define inclusion using Ainscow, Booth, and Dyson's framework? Does your
definition match the definition of your community?
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CHALLENGE: Let us assume your community is not too inclusive. How would you influence your
neighborhood to be more inclusive in their ways?
Present your ideas to your seatmate.
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HARNESS: Try to teach the concept of inclusion to an actual child. How can you influence him/her
toward inclusive practices?
Age of child you talked to:
Document your experience in the space below.
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IN A NUTSHELL: Write your reflection and conclusion.
Complete the following statements:
I learned that:
I realized that:
I think there is a need to:
Lesson 5:
EXPERIENCE: Interview three random people and ask them what they know about Philippine policies
related to inclusion or inclusive education.
Are they aware of such policies? If not, how do you think will we achieve inclusive communities if people are
not even aware of these policies? Write your thoughts in the space below.
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ASSESS: Do an analysis of the Philippine situation. Would you consider our country inclusive?
Use the table below to write your research and observations. One entry per area will do.
Area Situational Analysis
Legal policies, plans, and
practices
Educational policies, plans,
and practices
Health policies, plans, and
practices
Business policies, plans, and
practices
Accessibility policies, plans,
and practices (include
transportation, facilities and
infrastructure, media and
communication, and leisure)
CHALLENGE: Based on your situational analysis above, create an Action Plan for the Philippines so it
could strengthen and build inclusive cultures as well as inform policy.
Below is a modified planning matrix based on UNESCO's Guidelines for Inclusion (2005). Fill it out to create
your own Action Plan.
Monitoring and
Area Situational Policy Goals/ Implementation Evaluation
Analysis Objectives How will the What information
What is the current What actions are actions be taken needs to be
situation? needed? and by whom? collected, how will
you know what has
been achieved?
Legal policies,
plans, and
practices
Educational
policies, plans, and
practices
Health policies,
plans, and
practices
Business policies,
plans, and
practices
Accessibility
policies, plans, and
practices (include
transportation,
facilities and
infrastructure,
media and
communication,
and leisure)
HARNESS: Imagine you were called to a consultative session by the National Council on Disability
Affairs (NCDA) to help build policies to support inclusion. With you in the session are representatives
from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the Department of Education (DepEd), the
Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), Public Employment Service Office
(PESO), and different disability groups (Autism Society of the Philippines, ADHD Society of the
Philippines, Resources for the Blind, etc.).
Present your Action Plan as if these key players were part of your audience.
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IN A NUTSHELL: Write your reflection and conclusion. Complete the following statements:
I learned that:
I realized that:
I think there is a need to:
Lesson 6:
EXPERIENCE: Observe any class in the early childhood level with an identified student with additional
needs. Examine the school's and the teacher's practices. Would you consider these to be inclusive?
List down barriers to inclusion that you observe here.
Use the table below to help organize your observations.
Barrier Observed Practices
Existing attitudes and values
Lack of understanding of
disability
Lack of necessary skills to
address diverse needs of the
vulnerable sector
Limited resources
Inappropriate organization of
systems
ASSESS: List down five of the teacher's best inclusive practices below. Think about how these
practices directly affect the stakeholders
Observed Inclusive Practices Which stakeholder directly How does this practice benefit
benefits from this practice? the stakeholder?
(student with additional needs,
classmates, teachers, school,
community)
CHALLENGE: Help improve the school's inclusive practice by suggesting solutions and points for
improvement. Use the table below to organize your ideas.
Area Observed Barriers Solutions
Student admissions
Accessibility to utilities and facilities
Supports available to students,
parents, and school personnel
Learner accommodations
HARNESS: Present your recommendations in class. Imagine you are presenting to the school's
administrators.
Encourage your classmates, assuming the "school administrator hat," to ask you questions to enrich the
discussion.
IN A NUTSHELL: Write your reflection and conclusion.
Complete the following statements:
I learned that:
I realized that:
I think there is a need to:
