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Inclusive Learning Supports Branch Presentation
Curriculum Coordinator
Meetings 2012
InclusiveEducation
Supporting
student
… so student is successful!
Identifying Your Shifts Along the Inclusion Journey
June 2010 October 2012
What is your evidence of success?What are you noticing? • Shifts in attitude• Shifts in practice• Shifts in the learning environment
What are you noticing about…
attitudes practiceslearning
environments
Supporting Every Student - New web pages
Building Capacity
Resources - Learning Coaches
• Inclusive Education – Support for Implementation http://www.inclusiveeducationpdresources.ca/learning-coaches/
• Wiki – Strengthening Inclusive and Instructional Practices http://erlc.wikispaces.com/Strengthening+Inclusive+and+Instructional+Practices
• ATA Article – The Doors of the Classrooms are Open Wide http://www.teachers.ab.ca/Publications/ATA%20Magazine/Volume%2092/Number-3/Pages/The-doors-of-classrooms.aspx
• Online Collaborative Spaceshttp://reachingallstudents.ning.com/
Supporting Students with Significant Disabilities
Building School Capacity
Literacy for All• Communities of Practice
Year 1 • Piloted the resources:
– MEville to Weville– Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Blocks Way
Year 2 • Exploring the philosophy and the activities from The Daily Five: Fostering
literacy independence in the elementary grades (by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser) can be adapted for students with significant disabilities
• Wiki http://abliteracyforall.wikispaces.com/About+the+Project
Numeracy for All
• One-year pilot project for Grades 1 to 6• Teachers using Equals Math resource• Online community of practice and face-to-face learning
Supporting Students with Low Incidence Disabilities
Supports for students who are deaf or hard of hearing
• Educators Tool Kit – Minerva Deaf Research Lab http://mdrltoolkit.ualberta.ca/
Supports for students who are blind or visually/impaired
• Vision Education Alberta – www.vision.alberta.ca • Braille and More- Alternate Format Materials (locally authorized resources)
Exploring Emerging Technologies
• iPads What are we Learning? http://education.alberta.ca/media/6684652/ipad
%20report%20-%20final%20version%202012-03-20.pdf
• One to One Mobile Tablet Project (Year Two) http://1-2-1mobiletabletprojectyear2.wikispaces.com
Inclusive Education Planning Tool Pilot • Digital resource to inform teacher planning• Available in French and English• Teachers gather and organize student information to create learner
profiles and classroom summaries• Focus on how learner profiles and a strength-based approach can
support students and teachers • Focus is Grades 1 to 9• 49 school authorities (over 150 schools participating)• Future implementation plan – make resource available to all teachers
through LearnAlberta.ca - 2013
For more information: [email protected]
Inclusive Education Library
www.learnalberta.ca/content/ieptLibrary/index.html
Collaborative Practices & Partnerships • New resources
-Collaborative Practices Information Bank
-Train-the-trainer
• https://ideas.education.alberta.ca/hsc/current-projects/collaborative-practices/knowledge-mobilization.aspx
For further information:Cross Ministry Services Branch (780) 422- 6538
High School Completion
• Information to support parents, caregivers and students in keeping kids in school
• Interactive web page that includes social media tools, blogs, feature videos and parent resources
http://ideas.education.alberta.ca/hsc/
Funding
• Questions about the funding are best addressed to your secretary treasurer. Staff from Strategic Financial Services are holding meetings throughout the fall with ASBOA and CASS to discuss the new inclusive education grant.
• In Budget 2012, $6.8 billion in funding was provided to school jurisdictions for inclusive education. This funding will support school jurisdictions with ensuring that there are a number of different kinds of supports and services available to any student who needs help to learn. Jurisdictions determine what these are.
