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Inclusive education is a phrase used to describe the joint education of special needs and typically developing children. It’s an often misunderstood and misused concept; many schools claim to be inclusive, but with the best will in the world, few are. So, what is it all about? What is inclusive education? Inclusive education means students and special needs students learn while sharing the same physical space and interacting socially and academically. It’s not either-or; simply sharing the same physical space, but engaging in completely different activities, is not inclusive. Because of this, it’s important for a school’s whole community to understand inclusion and make it a goal: School administrators, teachers, parents and kids all have to buy into its value. When this happens, everyone benefits. The importance of inclusive education At its core, inclusive education is about appreciating each individual’s differences and unique set of strengths and limit...

Introduction            After the formation of NCERT in 1961, Kerala has been following all the curriculum reform efforts initiated at the national level. For instance, the state initiated the process for reforming its curriculum following the national curriculum framework 1975. The state also took steps to implement NPE 1986 and the programme of action. It was in 1997, that an effort for the formulation of a comprehensive curriculum focusing on the process of teaching and learning was attempted in Kerala. Rooted in the emerging methodology and strategies, an integrated method of learning, a process oriented activity based approach, viewing learner as a constructer of knowledge, recognizing the role of society in knowledge construction and idea of continues and comprehensive evaluation came into effect. However the state’s curriculum reform effort gained further impetus with the formulation of NCF 2005. NCF 2005 and the position ...

The  National Curriculum Framework (NCF 2005)  is one of the four National Curriculum Frameworks published in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005 by the National Council of Educational Research and Training NCERT in India. The executive had taken the decision at its meeting head on 14th and 19th July 2004 to revise the national curriculum framework for A.Padmalatha who is in pursuit of completing her M.Ed The Framework provides the framework for making syllabii,textbooks and teaching practices within the school education programmes in India. The NCF 2005. document draws its policy basis from earlier government reports on education as Learning Without Burdenand National Policy of Education 1986-1992 and focus group discussion. After wide ranging deliberations 21 National Focus Group Position Papers have been developed under the aegis of NCF-2005. The state of art position papers provided inputs for formulation of NCF-2005. The document and its offshoot ...

The Communicative Approach is based on the idea that learning a language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning. In the Communicative Approach, the main objective is to present a topic in context as natural as possible. In this page, On TESOL introduces the principles, features, and techniques used in the Communicative Approach. You will also find free video tutorials on how to teach grammar, vocabulary, and language skills using the Communicative Approach. PRINCIPLES OF THE COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH: Language learning is learning to communicate using the target language. The language used to +/*communicate must be appropriate to the situation, the roles of the speakers, the setting and the register. The learner needs to differentiate between a formal and an informal style. Communicative activities are essential. Activities should be presented in a situation or context and have a communicative purpose. Typical activities of this approach are: games, prob...

eacher and blogger Larissa Albano, who won our latest monthly Teaching English blog award, explains how using pictures as a teaching aid can help language teachers engage their students. If I say 'picture', what do you think about? I guess the words 'drawing', 'photo', 'painting', and 'film' might come to mind. As for me, well, I think a picture is much more than an image, especially when I teach English. Pictures are essential when it comes to engaging students who are learning a new language at any level. They can be successful study aids during lessons, and they can act as useful prompts to help students when they are practising speaking. So how can you use pictures in the classroom? Here are seven tips for bringing visual aids into your lessons, each starting with one of the letters in 'picture' to help you remember them. P redict: Students can look at pictures or watch the first part of a video in order to predict what th...

Language Acquisition Device Anybody who has had or known a child knows that children take to learning language at a remarkable rate. In fact, it seemed a little too remarkable for one linguistics researcher. Noam Chomsky, a pioneering linguist and a professor at MIT, put forth an idea called the language acquisition device or LAD, for short. The LAD is a hypothetical tool hardwired into the brain that helps children rapidly learn and understand language. Chomsky used it to explain just how amazingly children are able to acquire language abilities as well as accounting for the innate understanding of grammar and syntax all children possess. Keep in mind that the LAD is a theoretical concept. There isn't a section of the brain with 'language acquisition device' printed on it and a big switch to turn on and learn a new language. Rather, the LAD is used to explain what are most likely hundreds or thousands of underlying processes that humans have in their brains tha...

Cognitive psychologists challenge the limitations of behaviorism in its focus on observable behavior. They incorporate mental structure and process into their learning theories. Like behaviorists, they engage more in the hypotheico-deductive scientific inquiry. The primary focus of the research study in cognitive psychology emphasizes the internal processes and structures processes inferred through the observation of behavior. However, the focus on the mental structures and processes in cognitive psychology does not explicitly indicate its philosophical position. The internal representation of the learners can echo the external reality, which asserts a position of objectivism that the mind can stand separate and independent from the body. Thus, knowledge can be transferred from the outside of the mind into the inside of the mind. knowledge is transferred from the outside of the mind into the inside of the mind. Wilson and Meyers (2000) illustrate such a position pretty well by indic...