• Teaching

    Classroom Inclusion

    Part 2 of my Goodbye to Teaching post. My thoughts on inclusion. I’ve been to many different classrooms in many different schools as a sub for the last five years. I was an elementary teacher for five years before that. I believe in classroom inclusion. I don’t even like ability ranking. I think we should tell students what they’re capable of instead of what they’re not capable of. Multiple Intelligence classrooms help students understand their own unique way of learning. As one student said to me, “We’re all smart in our own way. Right, Ms. Rausin?” Right. When I taught elementary there were some teachers who did not welcome students who were in an isolated ESE room…