Impressions about the project (4)

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We propose to you, today, to find out how our project looks at the “Vasile Alecsandri” Theoretical High School in Săbăoani. In this context, we asked Mrs. Laura Cobzariu, remedial education teacher, to give us some thoughts.
“Initially we started with a number of 69 beneficiaries, from first to ninth grade. It was not an easy task, but after a few activities carried out together, the children started coming with love. They were delighted by the games played together, by the fact that they solved their homework and interacted with the other colleagues.
Through the kindness of the director, Prof. Albert Ovidiu, and his collaboration with the people from the Roman Food Bank, the children also benefited from food products for several months. He also coordinated a group of volunteers from the high school to guide the high school students in the project. Every day, 4-5 high school students helped their younger colleagues in solving their homework and this was also seen in the classroom activity of some of the beneficiaries.
Inclusion involves the effort to provide all students – of different languages and cultures, from different families, with any health problems, with different interests and learning methods – appropriate and individualized teaching-learning strategies, without stigmatizing or separating. Inclusion improves the learning process for all students, with and without special needs. Ensuring equal opportunities for students means ensuring maximum development opportunities for everyone, depending on their skills and interests.
In order for the instructive-educational activity to be profitable for all students, it must be carried out differently. Differentiated education aims to adapt the training activity to the different possibilities of the students, to the understanding capacity and the work rhythm specific to some groups of students or even to each individual student.
Inclusive education promotes equal opportunities, offering learning support to these children, who fail to adapt to the demands of school, who encounter difficulties in learning, who sometimes want to, but…can’t or don’t know how to manage certain situations.
Inclusion implies not only accepting and tolerating children with special needs in a mainstream education class, but also adapting to the requirements of these children, including them in educational programs alongside all other children, but also the responsibility to provide them with services at the same time specialized, individualized support programs. It means assuming some changes in the organization and development of the instructional-educational activities carried out in the school. ” says teacher Laura Cobzariu.