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 Table of Contents
1. Introduction..............................................................................................................................1

2. Importance of Inclusive Education...........................................................................................1

2.1. Inclusive Education Systems............................................................................................1

2.2. Forming and Establishing An Inclusive Education System..............................................2

2.3. Benefits of an Inclusive Education System.......................................................................2

2.3.1. Facilitates All Students To Have Quality Education.................................................3

2.3.2. Ignoring the ‘Difference’...........................................................................................3

2.3.3. Promotes Equal Support............................................................................................3

2.3.4. Promotes Academic Standards..................................................................................4

2.4. Importance of Inclusive Education for a Country.............................................................4

3. Conclusion...............................................................................................................................4

References........................................................................................................................................5

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1. Introduction
Inclusive education is about developing and designing the schools, classrooms and learning
procedures in a manner under which each and every student would be receiving the opportunity
to learn and participate cooperatively. It is all about assuring that all the students have
accessibility to quality education whilst productively meeting the distinct needs (Singh &
Prajapati, 2021). Students get privileged to take part in a common learning environment
irrespective of belonging to various backgrounds and distinct potentialities to learn cohesively in
an inclusive environment. Inclusive education is based on the moral principle of every child is
having a right to access quality education. Each and every student should have effective and age
appropriate general education irrespective of taking any disabilities into account. It values
variety and distinct contributions to the same learning platform (UNICEF, n.d.).

2. Importance of Inclusive Education

2.1. Inclusive Education Systems
Inclusive education systems are benefiting all the students in a similar way. Students with special
needs would be allowed to stay in a general education classroom so that they can learn with their
peers. Both general education teachers and special education teachers work in a cohesive manner
to meet the demands of students. There exists mainly two types of inclusive classroom settings.
One is the co-teaching model under which a special education teacher would always be present
in the classroom. The other model is the push-in system under which a special education teacher
would be present in the classrooms on assigned times during the day to provide education.
However, under both models, both types of teachers would be available to support students
during the whole day (Osewalt, 2023).

Students with special needs include individuals with physical or emotional disabilities, belongs
to different societal, economic and religious backgrounds and with distinct sextual orientations.
An inclusive classroom assures that all the students are getting treated with respect and have
identical accessibility to general education and technology. Under such classroom the gap
between ‘have’ and ‘have not’ is totally eliminated. The impact of prejudices in social settings
are getting reduced. When inclusive teaching is devised, the difference of every child is valued.

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High level of expectations are attached with every student. Individual support for everyone is
offered when needed. As students are learning according to state adapted educational standards,
despite any differences, every student get prepared for future professions of the country (Denver,
2022).

2.2. Forming and Establishing An Inclusive Education System

There exists multiple methods under which inclusive education can be established in a school
environment. In some schools, specifically selected classrooms are designed as inclusive. Under
such circumstances, randomly selected general education students are allocated into inclusive
and non-inclusive classrooms. In other schools, all are set as inclusive classrooms and allow
students to get equally benefited to get their personalized needs satisfied at all ability levels
(Mag, et al., 2017).

In implementing an inclusive system, one common method is modifying the ordinary teaching
mechanisms, material and resources deployed at classrooms. As indicated above, this is done
with visual aids and creative learning tools that are freely accessible for all children, irrespective
of their skills and potentialities. It is another crucial factor to assure that the classroom setting is
welcoming and encouraging learning of all students to feel comfortable to participate in class
activities. Also, an inclusive education system should create a culture of inclusion within the
school system. All staff, parents and general education students have to be educated and trained
by the state authorities to know the benefits of an inclusive system and guide them to deal with
special needs students. It is mandatory to provide all students to interact with one another while
building up relationships (Foster, 2020).

2.3. Benefits of an Inclusive Education System

Studies have demonstrated that inclusion is bringing in a number of short term and long term
benefits for all the students. Those benefits are not getting limited to the ones who have special
education demands. Students with special education needs, who are in common learning
platforms are getting absent less frequently. They get their reading and math skills developed.
Also they have a high probability of getting job opportunities and getting enrolled into higher
education after completing school education. On the other hand, their co-learners in the same
classroom would be mostly comfortable to tolerate the differences. They would nurture their
positive self-esteem and get involved with more caring friendships with their peers with special

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needs (Singh & Prajapati, 2021). To be more specific, the below mentioned benefits are primarily
associated with an inclusive education system.

2.3.1. Facilitates All Students To Have Quality Education

How students learn gets different from one to another. That is one of the key principles of
inclusive education. Inclusive education environments provide detailed instructions for teachers
to assist students to get developed. Not only for the students with special needs, these strategies
are crucial for every student to make progress. Students are often given privileges to make small
movements. Teachers are frequently making use of positive behavioral interventions and
supports to groom students (University of Bolton, 2020).

A common strategic approach which is being used under inclusive education systems are
breaking students into tiny groups. Under this strategy teachers are providing differentiated
instructions on each group. Further the teacher is getting the opportunity to change the teaching
style in accordance to the learning pattern of the group. Teachers are making use of the
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework to customize their teaching styles according to
the way that each student grooms their best. For instance, mathematics can be taught with the
support of visual aids and supportive elements like cubes and colored chips to aid children learn
new theories. At some classrooms, an interactive whiteboard is there, which is used to keep
students engaged with the lessons (Osewalt, 2023).

2.3.2. Ignoring the ‘Difference’

Inclusive learning platform is composed of distinct types of learners. Each and everyone has
their own plus points and weaknesses. Inclusion allows the students to have an idea about how
everybody masters their learnings in distinct patterns. Specifically the children with special
needs start to think that they have more common characteristics that get matched with peer
students than being different. This may support the students to realize that difference is a normal
part of life. Also, it influences the kids to maintain natural bonds with peer students (Foster,
2020).

2.3.3. Promotes Equal Support

Conventional special educational settings are typically deemed to be considered as pull-out
systems under which kids with special needs are getting moved out of the classroom for
specialized instructions. In contrast, an inclusive education system brings in all instructors

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including speech therapists and reading specialists into the classroom. These instructors not only
support the students with special needs. Information and recommendation on students that do not
belong to the special need category still need additional support to figure out the best fit learning
style on them are provided informally by these learning specialists. That allows students to get
encouraged and receive equal learning support (Llego, 2022).

2.3.4. Promotes Academic Standards

An inclusive educational set-up is ensuring that all the students meet the necessary academic
standards of the country. Those standards specifically emphasize what is expected from students
to learn with regard to each and every subject area. The aforementioned co-teaching and
differentiated instruction systems practiced would support the realization of that objective while
guaranteeing that the children with special needs too learn the same material as other children do
(Tuggar, 2014).

2.4. Importance of Inclusive Education for a Country

Inclusion education validates that all students get equal quality education. The discriminatory
attitudes of the future generation on distinct groups gets eliminated. The initial relationships that
a child forms outside his or her family are bonds they established within their schools. An
inclusive education system would support them to have effective social relationships and
interactions whereby they would learn how to interact effectively and be socialize with distinct
social groups. When education becomes more inclusive, that would enable the student to have
better civic participation, employment and productive community life in future (InclusionNB,
n.d.).

All students would receive a sense of belonging so that their level of expectancy would increase
up. Despite of sensing that they are marginalized groups, children with special needs demonstrate
an active learning under an inclusive educational platform. Thereby, they become better prepared
to hold responsibilities and gain opportunities in upcoming events. As all students have similar
chances to grow, they would contribute their acquired knowledge for the development of the
country whilst effectively working with distinct local and international communities (Open
Society Foundations, 2019).

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3. Conclusion
Inclusive education is an education system under which all children can participate in learning.
Inclusion inspires finding innovative methods to get all students actively involved in learning.
There are number of benefits of an inclusive system. Supporting all students to reach their full
potential apart from differences is the most critical one. When diversity is welcomed at schools,
all students would find out their best way of learning so that they get groomed as valuable
personalities to play different roles in the future societies.

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Foster, C. B., 2020. The Importance of Inclusive Education. [Online]

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InclusionNB, n.d.. Inclusive Education and its Benefits. [Online]

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Llego, M. A., 2022. Benefits of Inclusive Education for All Students. [Online]
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Mag, A. G., Burns, T. & Sinfield, S., 2017. The benefits of inclusive education: new challenges
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Open Society Foundations, 2019. The Value of Inclusive Education. [Online]

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Osewalt, G., 2023. Benefits of inclusive classrooms. [Online]

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Singh, B. & Prajapati, A. K., 2021. Inclusive education. International Journal of Research in
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Tuggar, A. M., 2014. Benefits of Inlusive Education to the Education of Special Needs Children.
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UNICEF, n.d.. Inclusive education. [Online]

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