Activity 1: Summary

A. What is inclusive education?

Inclusive education is the Department of Education’s strategy to increase the
participation rate of children. With cooperation from school personnel, students, parents,
and the community, inclusive education emphasizes the principle of accepting all
children regardless of race, size, shape, color, capability, or disability.

B. Sustainable Development Goal and Inclusive Education

The goal is for the entire educational system to support learning settings in which
instructors and students accept and value diversity's challenges and benefits. Individual
needs are accommodated and learning environments are established in an inclusive
learning strategy. Every student has a chance to be successful.

C. Inclusive Education Policies in the Philippines

1. Every child has the right to education.

2. The school and learning environment is accessible.
3. Teachers, including teachers with disabilities, are supported to work in inclusive
education settings.
4. Every child has right to protection from discrimination on grounds of disability.
5. Children are protected from all forms of violence in schools.
6. Children have a right to democratic participation in schools and to be consulted on
education policy.
7. Access to education for children with disabilities is the responsibility of education
ministry.
8. A governmentwide and coordinated approach to inclusive education is in place.
9. Children with disabilities are cared for and supported within their families or
substitute family environment.
D. Facility
A facility that will assist various students in their educational growth. The ability
to provide them with mental, physical, and emotional assistance. The DepEd, DILG,
DSWD, NCDA, NGOs, and the community are among these facilities.
E. Teachers
Teachers' true involvement in achieving Inclusive Education. In every way,
teachers should value, respect, and embrace the diversity of their students. In addition,
instructors' responsibility is to modify all parents' perceptions and acquire their trust in
order to properly execute inclusive education.
F. Parents
Parents' role in satisfying their children's requirements in order to encourage
growth and promote wellness. Parents' psychological, physiological, mental, and
cognitive support and engagement are essential for fully implementing this educational
system. Parents need not be concerned because other sectors, inter-agencies, national and
local levels are all adequately supported to meet their demands.
G. Challenges in Inclusion Implementation and Post COVID-19 Challenge
Challenges emerge not only from professors, but also from students' attitudes about
whether or not they should participate.
Not just from the viewpoint, abilities, and expertise of teaching and supporting special
education students in some standard education institutions, but also from the perspective,
skills, and experience of teaching and accommodating special needs students in a
mainstream learning institution. The ministry of education, as the focal point, should
create laws that promote teachers' capacity building in terms of inclusive education on a
theoretical level, such as requiring all teachers to attend inclusive education training as a
condition of their career trajectory.
H. Recommendations
Educators should be equipped with knowledge and trained in inclusive education
in order to effectively communicate information to exceptional students. Families should
 comprehend and be knowledgeable on how to deal with their disabled kids. Parents with
healthy children should reconsider their attitudes toward disabled children.

SUMMARY

1. PD 603 Child Youth and Welfare Code

Every child has the right to protection against exploitation, improper
influences, hazards and other conditions or circumstances prejudicial to his
physical, mental, emotional, social and moral development.
2. RA 7610 Special Protection of Children Against Child Abuse,
Exploitation, and Discrimination Act
  An act providing for stronger deterrence and special protection against child
abuse, exploitation and discrimination, providing penalties for its violation and for other
purposes. Under RA 7610, children are "persons below eighteen years of age or those
unable to fully take care of themselves or protect themselves from abuse, neglect, cruelty,
exploitation or discrimination because of their age or mental disability or condition.
3. RA 10410 Early Years Act of 2013
An act recognizing the age from zero (0) to eight (8) years as the first crucial
stage of educational development and strengthening the early childhood care and
development system, appropriating funds therefor and for other purposes. Defines the
rights of children to survival, development and special protection with full recognition of
the nature of childhood and its special needs and to support parents in their roles as
primary caregivers and as their children's first teachers.
4. RA 10533 Enhanced Basic Education Act of 2013
It is a statute that develops an educational system that allows students to gain a
globally competitive curriculum, broaden their aspirations, and receive learner-centered,
diversified learner-centered education.
5. Convention on the Rights of the Child
Believing that the family, as basic constitutional group and the natural habitat for
the development including well of all its members, especially children, should be given
the appropriate protection and aid so that it can properly undertake its obligations within
the community,

Knowing that the kid should grow up in a family context, in an atmosphere of

happiness, love, and compassion, for the full and peaceful development of his or her
individuality.
Considering that a kid should be completely equipped to live an independent life
in society and should be raised in the spirit of the United Nations Charter's principles,
particularly peace, dignity, tolerance, freedom, equality, and solidarity,
6. World Declaration on Education for All
The ultimate purpose of the World Declaration on Education for All is to address
all children, youth, and adults' basic learning requirements. If intermediate goals are
defined and progress toward these goals is assessed, the long-term effort to achieve that
goal may be sustained more successfully.
7. The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education
It led to the Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs
Education, arguably the most significant international document that has ever appeared in
the field of special education. In so doing, it endorsed the idea of inclusive education,
which was to become a major influence in subsequent years.
8. Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons
People with disabilities have the right to live with their family or foster parents
and engage in all social, creative, and recreational activities. Disabled people must be
safeguarded from all forms of exploitation and treatment that is discriminatory, abusive,
or demeaning.
9. DepEd (DECS) Order No. 26, s. 1997 Institutionalization of SPED Programs in all
Schools
Support monies are supplied to the field through the program to guarantee that
Learners with Special Educational Requirements are included in the school system by
providing necessary and suitable support mechanisms and accommodations that cater to
their individual circumstances and needs.
10. RA 7277 or as Amended RA 9442 The Magna Carta for Disabled Persons, and
other Purposes
An act to make provision for the regeneration and self-sufficiency of disabled
people, as well as their integration into society and other purposes, as well as special
privileges and benefits, as well as prohibitions against verbal, nonverbal ridicule, and
vilification of disabled people.
11. DepEd Order No. 72 s. 2009 Inclusive Education as Strategy for Increasing
Participation Rate of Children
Provides these children with the right to a suitable education in a normal or
inclusive school setting. With cooperation from school personnel, students, parents, and
the community, inclusive education emphasizes the principle of welcoming all children
regardless of race, size, shape, color, ability, or handicap.
12. EO No. 778 Transforming the Council for the Welfare of Children into the Early
Childhood Care and Development Council
A policy statement is included in the legislation to promote children's rights to
survival, growth, and social protection, as well as to assist parents in their duties as
primary caregivers and first teachers.
13. DepEd Order No. 43 s. 2013 Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of
Republic Act No. 10533 Enhance Basic Education Act of 2013