Inclusive Education

 Objective
An inclusive educational system seeks to give every student the finest learning environments
and opportunities so they can all maximize their potential. All children can learn and develop to
their full capacity if given the chance, adequate instruction, and useful materials.
 What is Inclusive Education?
a classroom setting where students with and without impairments are educated next to one
another, as equals.

- Teachers, families and policymakers recognize inclusive educations to be a more beneficial

way of ensuring that children with and without disabilities achieve their full education
potential, and it is included in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (UNCRPD) Article 24.
- Article 1, Section 1 of the Philippine Constitution
“Shall protect and promote the rights of all citizens to quality education at all levels and take
appropriate steps to make such education accessible to all.”
 The DEPED Vision
- We dream of Filipinos who passionately love their country and whose values and
competencies enable them to realize their full potential and contribute meaningfully to
building the nation. As a learner-centered public institution, the Department of Education
continuously improves itself to better serve its stakeholders.
 The DEPED Mission
- Is to protect and promote the right of every Filipino to quality, equitable, culture based and
complete basic education where students learned in a child friendly, gender sensitive and
safe motivating environment.
 The CHED’s Vision
- Philippine higher education system that is equitable and producing locally responsive,
innovative, and globally competitive graduates and lifelong learners.
 The CHED’s Mission
- To promote equitable access and ensure quality and relevance of higher education
institutions and their programs
 The Importance if Inclusive Education
- When they receive their education in a welcoming setting, students with impairments
perform better academically.
- They will develop greater self-assurance in their skills and improve their capacity to form
enduring bonds with their classmates.
 The inclusive education program is supported by the following by education policy
1. The right to education basic human rights
2. All students and you shall have access to quality education
3. Inclusive education shall be concerned with all learners with focus and those who have
traditionally been excluded from educational opportunities.
4. Support System so be organized and deliver.

Here is some of Philippine legal basis for inclusive education

 1. The 1987 Philippine Constitution (Art. XIV, Sec 1 & 2)
2. RA No. 10533, The Enhance Basic Education Act of 2013
3. RA No. 10157, The Kindergarten Education Act
4. RA No. 9155, The Governance of Basic Education Act of 2001
5. RA No. 8371, The Indigenous Peoples Rights of 1997
6. P.D. 603 – The Child and Youth Welfare Code (P.D. Means Presidential Decrees)
7. RA No. 7610 – Special Protection of Children against Child Abuse, Neglect, Cruelty, Exploitation
and Discrimination
8. RA No. 9344, The Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act of 2006
9. RA No. 9442 amending RA No. 7277 – The Magna Carta for Disabled Persons
10. RA No. 10665, An Act Establishing the Open High School System in the Philippines
11. RA No. 10361, The Domestic Workers Act or Bats Kasambahay

(Script – Policies and Guidelines and Special Education also supports Inclusive Education)

(Script – The Philippines also adopted International Documents an Inclusive Education here are
the...)

 The International Legal and Standard-Settings Instruments that Supports Inclusive Education:
- UN Conventions on the Right of the Childs (1989)
- World Declaration on Education for All (1990)
- UNESCO Salamanca Statement and Framework (1994)
- 2007 UN Declaration on the rights of the Indigenous Peoples
- The Education 2030 Framework for Action

(Script – Inclusion Defined as reaching out to all learners addressing and responding to the diversity of
needs of all students’ youths and adults and involves changes and modifications and content approaches
structures and strategies.)

Corresponds for their educational needs the inclusive Education Program Utilizes

- Programs
- Curriculum
- Learning Materials
- Facilities
- Equipment
 Sustaining Programs for Students with Disabilities
- organizing training sessions for educators who work with students who have different
disabilities
- 648 Special Education (SPED) centers and regular schools in the Philippines offering the
SPED program.
- Provision of SPED Items
- Implementation of various intervention programs like Early Intervention, Transition
Program, and Headstart Program
- Indigenous Peoples Education
- ALS Advocacy Campaigns
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