1. Inclusive Teaching:
why every child matters in your classroom and strategies to deploy to ensure this happens within drama
Thursday 30th June

2. Inclusive Teaching:
why every child matters in your classroom and strategies to deploy to ensure this happens within drama
What is inclusion?
Why does inclusion matter?
What are the benefits of inclusion on drama?
What strategies could be deployed in my drama classroom to be more inclusive?

3. This project used a mixed-methods approach using both qualitative and quantitative data to understand inclusion in my classroom.  The process was as below:

4. Quantitative results
On a scale of 1 – 10 (10 being the top score), Drama scored higher for every statement in comparison to the rest of the school.

5. Qualitative results
Comments on the surveys and further investigation through focus groups found that students felt included in drama because they enjoyed lessons, they liked working in groups, and they felt their teacher understood them as an individual and as a class therefore they felt the classroom was inclusive.

6. Findings

7. Inclusive Teaching:
why every child matters in your classroom and strategies to deploy to ensure this happens within drama
What is inclusion?
Why does inclusion matter?
What are the benefits of inclusion on drama?
What strategies could be deployed in my drama classroom to be more inclusive?

8. Next Steps…
Ensure data is used within the department to get to know our students
Look into a buddying system between teachers in order to support each other with inclusion
Have inclusion champions within teaching staff
Review SOW for group work, enjoyment, scaffolded worksheet (task design)