12 Keys to High Quality Early Childhood Inclusion

I attended this webinar. it was really interesting and beneficial. the presenter presented great information have been taken from a real classroom. Actually, it was about promote inclusion education for all students. Also, she presented the benefits of inclusion in early education. The presenter tried to engage us and get us ready to the webinar. she mentioned an important idea which was value children/ strengthening, sustaining, and ensuring inclusion practices. She gave me some ideas for what I might use in my class. The presenter mention that we need to welcome, accept, and respect differences and diversity; that can be promoted by enhancing memberships (peer support/ full social development/ emotional). when the students feel like they are engaged in curriculum, they will learn much more than we expect. learning material should be accessible, and they should meet students' different styles. Before planning for the lesson, the teacher must plan to create appropriate environment. modeling is essential, and the students should be treated as children not adults!  

  At secondary level, the teacher was perfect. She had the most effective tools that caught students’ attention. She taught us English in a new way. Her personality and her language were perfect just like her. When they ask me which teacher left a touch in your school, I just mention her name T. Amal Farhat. She made me love English. Her activities were interesting, beneficial, and valuable. She motivated me a lot. She is a good listener, supportive, active, lively, full of energy, and creative. I’ve learnt many things from her, she built my confidence. She motivated us to do things much better. And also pushed us to write, speak, and read English. I learned new words, some structures, and affirmed a lot of rules in my mind. Group work, free writing, attractive topics, free reading, interesting activities for practice, support, motivation, reinforcement, and positive feedback were really effective for me. One day she told me and some girls that she wanted to talk with us after class. We went with her outside and she told us that we have nice ideas, we are creative, and we can write something good. I participated in that competition, I wrote a poem “Your Buddy”, the teacher corrected some mistakes, so I won the 3^rd place. I really appreciate her; she inspired me to be an English language teacher.

As teachers, we never stop learning. Every Saturday, we attend a precious workshop that can provide us with the efficient tools that can be applied in the class room. These workshops can qualify the teachers to do their jobs in the best possible way. We work together as a team, in other words, as a family. We discuss with each other what is useful and what is not. Also, we try to choose wisely what fits students’ needs, levels, abilities, and interests. That work shop was about learning through the projects. We discussed what we know about that concept, and we revised what we took last session with Dr. Amal Farhat. During that session, we discussed teacher’s role and learner’s role too. We were divided into groups to work. We presented our work on a poster, and we discussed it with Dr. Mohammad Assaf in front of the teachers. That workshop was really fruitful; it opened our eyes on new things maybe we didn’t realize before. I really enjoyed attending such work shops; every time I can add something new to my educational repertoire. 

“Show & Tell” is one of the daily activities we do during the English language periods. The students bring any thing they own, present it to the classmates, and talk about it a little bit. The teacher and the students listen attentively to the speaker and show him/her an interest in what they are talking about. Students really like that kind of activities because they like to share their toys and precious stuff with their friends. The main purpose of this activity is enhancing fluency, but there are many other purposes such as build self-confidence improve listening skills and improve English language speaking skills as well. Such activities would appreciate students thoughts; students would feel like their voices are heard, and what they are doing is really important. Actually, the students like to discuss things with each other, and exchange information about a certain thing. They are all enthusiastic to watch a new presentation with new interesting object.

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” In our educational system, we care about schedule, books, and curriculum. And we forget the most important ingredient which is “Students”. Our students are not motivated to learn, and they “Hate” schools. This is an important issue that should be solved. Otherwise, the educational level will decrease!!

There are many activities that can be applied in any school easily. These activities will involve, motivate, and engage the students to love school. But before any activity, the students must feel the sense of belonging. And this is teachers’ responsibility to provide for them a safe environment. 
The teacher should be smart enough, and she should take into consideration students' levels, abilities, interests, and needs. With simple, smart and wise touches, we can make the school a place for having fun and learning at the same time .

EDUC 560 😉

It seems like this course is really interesting. I am learning things that are new; these things can facilitate my life as a teacher (being up to date). Actually, this course is providing me with beneficial tools I can use in my career. In each session, I add something new to my repertoire!  Google drive, forms, and bloggers made me enthusiastic to learn more and more about such applications. I thought g-mail only can be used to attach assignments for the instructors!!!

In 12th century, it is really essential to be up to date. advancements in technology make our lives much better. Using these applications in my career can help to share my students' published work with parents easily. Moreover, the students can easily be provided with a variety of resources that help them to do a project for example (web quest). As a result, the world is becoming smaller; students, parents, and staff members can be simply reached! Also, I can post my reflections on different educational fields/domains and share them with people in the same domain; these people can provide me with constructive comments.