Inclusive strategies and methodologies for improving learning among students with special needs

Maja Mitevska-Poceva

Abstract

Education changes the lives of all people around the world, opening opportunities and potential for development and change. Children need a quality education that will help them reach their full potential and increase their chances of becoming happy, healthy, successful, and useful members of society. Children need a quality education that will help them develop into polite, self-confident, critical, and well-integrated beings in society. Most of all, children need quality education that is easily accessible to all. Inclusive education is an educational approach that strives to include all students, regardless of their differences and needs. This paper explores inclusive strategies and methodologies for improving learning for students with special needs, focusing on the various ways in which teachers can adapt their teaching practices to create a supportive and inclusive school environment. The need for inclusion in education and the search for ways to best implement it have been particularly relevant in the last 20 years and are visible in the adopted international documents that advocate quality education for all and the various professional movements for their revival in practice. Traditional education, "equal" for all, proved unable to provide quality education for all. It is therefore necessary to adapt it to the needs of different groups and individuals. Inclusive education implies that all children are included and accepted, with particular attention to children who may be marginalized, discriminated against, or excluded from the educational system. They are included in regular classes and are provided with adequate conditions for learning, progress, and participation in the life of the school.

Keywords: Education, Inclusion, students with special needs