There is a lot going on every day in the classroom. Teachers are stretched to the bone spending their time dealing instruction, differentiation, IEP’s, department requirements, state requirements, national requirements, parents, and administration. This does not leave much flexibility, time, or patience to deal with classroom conduct problems, and needs.

 

Students with specific learning needs that require a specific classroom environment. For example, students with ADHD will not learn well in a classroom where students are constantly talking and interrupting the teacher. Students with hearing impairments will suffer in a class if there is a lot of background noise or distractions that may affect the audio of the students hearing device.  In other cases some students just need a supportive environment where they can feel comfortable asking for questions.

 

Quite possibly the most important way to have a successful and inclusive classroom is to develop a positive classroom climate based off of respect, trust, friendliness, and one that promotes interaction teacher-student and students-students. When a classroom is built off of these pillars of a positive classroom climate, it makes the teacher’s job easier and more enjoyable, and it also creates more inclusion for the students. In a classroom that has an established respect; when the teacher is talking students will remain quiet out of respect for that teacher. In this situation the teacher will not have to become frustrated from constantly spending time requiring students to listen when the teacher is talking, and it benefits students that have attention problems or hearing impairments. In a classroom that takes a positive stance on building student-teacher relationships, it promotes students with special need to self-advocate for their classroom needs. It can be intimidating for students to make request to the teacher, or remind teacher of special accommodations that they are supposed to be considering. By making this classroom climate the students now feel more comfortable to speak out to their teachers, and this helps the teacher be sure that they are constantly providing the necessary accommodations.