What are the fundamentals for building an inclusive school? José Miguel Freitas from Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal speaks about the essential conditions for ensuring access to all students.
2. Summary
• Key concepts
• Inclusion
• School organiza?on
• School Leadership
• Emerging ac1on dimensions of the leadership prac1ces
• SeBng direc?on
• Professional development
• Redesigning the organiza?on
• Monitoring the teaching and learning programs
• Final Remarks
7. Inclusion as a school mission
• The idea of inclusion of children and adolescents in
regular classes is being much more accepted in theory than
in prac?ce (Bunch, Lupart & Brown, 1997)
• Working in the implementation of inclusion requires a
stable framework (policies and educa?onal project) under
discomfort and
(Macmillan & Mayer,
pain of teachers living a great
discouragement in professional terms
2006)
• The idea of inclusion has lel many schools and even its
all the educa?onal systems struggling to understand
implica?ons that result in the daily life of schools
Have they succeeded?
14. Leadership - the agency
Place the "change of life" in the center of the ac?on
requires a shared vision, set priori?es and work direc?ons
with others, including parents and community
.
• Undertake the challenges that is only possible with an
organized collec?ve ac?on
•This can only exist with a par?cipa?ve leadership
framework
•The influence of the leader in student learning is only
possible indirectly;
• The influence of the leader is strong in working
condi?ons; moderate in students mo?va?on and
commitment; the low in students capacity of learning
16. Distributed leadership in school
• Difficul1es in implemen1ng the shared leadership
– Commitment of teachers
– central placement of teachers who can not mean the
iden?fica?on with the school project .
– The boundaries between individual freedom of the
teacher and authority and power of the director
• What solu1on to the problem?
– The director has the task of conquering and involve
teachers in the educa?onal project that has to school