Special and Inclusive Education
Autumn 2018
Helena Vaďurová

Getting to know the group
•Group 1: Introduce yourselves briefly.
•Group 2: Prepare a label on your T-shirt.
•Group 3: Write down 3 numbers and let others guess.
•Group 4: Your life in one sentence.
•Group 5: Find someone who…..

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•´For sale: children shoes. Never worn.´
• Ernst Hemingway
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•Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
• Margaret Atwood
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•Alone at home. Cat on lap.
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Ernst Hemingway
“It is said that in 1920, when meeting with journalists, the brilliant novelist Ernst Hemingway was
challenged by one of the journalists to write a really short novel. He bet 10 dollars that
Hemingway cannot write a novel having only 36 words. After a while, Hemingway returned to the group
of journalists and read: ´For sale: children shoes. Never worn.´ He won the bet.”

Teaching tolerance
•Introduce students to people with disabilities.
•Focus on language.
•Use the school and its surroundings.
•Bring math into problem-solving.
•Involve parents and let them know what to expect.
•Listen to the students.
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Literature and resources
•JARKOVSKÁ, Lucie, Kateřina LIŠKOVÁ a Jana OBROVSKÁ. "We treat them all the same, but…".
Disappearing ethnic homogeneity in Czech classrooms and teachers' responses. Race Ethnicity and
Education, 2015, roč. 18, č. 5, s. 632-654. ISSN 1361-3324. • TITUS, D. Teaching tolerance and
appeciation for diversity: Applying the research on prejudice reduction. Annual Meeting for
Curriculm Development (presentation), 1998. online: WWW
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED461623.pdf
•www.tolerance.org
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What do you expect?



What to expect…
•Discussions
•Group work
•Hands-on activites
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Syllabus
•1. Inclusion and exclusion: what fairy tales teach us.
•2. Inclusion in education, international documents: Are the Beatles a brand-new band?
•3. Multidisciplinary team in inclusive education: Who is the captain?
•4. Work with heterogeneous group of pupils at school and in free-time activites
•5. Support needs based on a pupil´s health disability and other health conditions
•6. Students with learning difficulties: What is it like to study in Chinese?
•9. Support needs derived from a pupil´s cultural environment and other life conditions and pupils
in substantial risk of school failure
•10. Supporting students with sensory impairment: when talking loud is not enough.
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Requirements
•Attendance and active participation
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•Group project and presentation
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Group project
•Choose and aktivity
•Choose who attends the aktivity
•Mind map about accessibility
•Try out and videotape.
•Present in the class and discuss.

Pre-test…..