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Inclusion
By Melissa

Amy,

I, too, am a new teacher, but during my recent student teaching experience, I had 8 inclusion students, with exceptionalities ranging from learning to behavioral. The most important thing for you to remember when managing
and teaching an inclusion classroom is to INCLUDE (just like it sounds) all students in all activities. You do this by making modifications when needed. I found that with a lot of my lessons, the students, especially those with attention problems, just neede something legitimate to do that was part of the lesson. I tried to make my lessons as interactive as possible so that my easily

distracted students would be engaged. To manage other difficulties, such as students who were constantly out of their seats during the lesson, I gave them something legitimate to do, such as help me hold up a poster or a book. This kept their attention, and it made my day much easier. I start my first teaching job next week, and I will again have a number of inclusion students in my classroom. Let me know how these suggestions work for you.