35 activities for inclusive classrooms
Teaching and learning in diversity
This guide is designed for dealing positively with diversity in the classroom, using experiential learning and humor.
It provides teachers with an effective approach using innovative activities for exploring diversity with their students aged 6 to 12. Its 35 experiential activities help learners welcome diversity in its many forms, while providing them with differentiated learning paths.
35 activities for inclusive classrooms
Growing up together and experiencing happiness in diversity
6 – 12 years old
August 2020 – Hatier editions
Introduction
Inclusion concerns all students in school and society. This guide is designed to help students develop inclusiveness and school satisfaction using differential learning, experiential learning and humor. It covers many forms of diversity with the aim of overcoming the risks of stigmatization of one type or another. These include:
- identity
- ease or difficulty in learning
- disability
- gender
- socioeconomic differences.
The activities are designed to help students experiment collaboration, consideration and empathy in reciprocity as well as mutual aid. Through dialogue-based learning, they develop human values and life skills, of which socio-emotional and inclusive skills that develop openness to the diversity around them and in the world. With these skills, many more students can develop feelings of belongingness to the community and achieve personal fulfillment which are key for their academic success.
Developed for classroom learning:
- Activities are participatory, collaborative and fun, while designed to develop student metareflexion.
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All are In line with the school curriculum (French, Swiss)
and easy for teachers to implement and adapt. -
Each activity offers 3 paths to cater for differential learning
- The cartoon-like illustrations are colourful, humorous, yet meaningful.
- Little or no specific equipment is required.
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