Inclusive curriculum and lesson planning: Adaptive lessons to meet students’ needs

In this five-part series, I am exploring inclusion and belonging in the classroom. In part one, I said there are three areas of professional practice to consider: Lesson-planning, teaching and assessment .

I have already provided some advice for each area. Inclusive lesson planning, I said, requires 3Rs:

But what does this look like in practice? To answer that question, permit me another three-point plan – this time, my 3Cs:

A SecEd Series: Inclusive and adaptive lesson planning, teaching and assessment

1, Cross-curricular connections

We can help disadvantaged learners to succeed at school by encouraging them to make more sense of the school curriculum. The more meaning they can attach to the curriculum, making abstract information more concrete and real, connecting the new with the familiar, the more learners will be able to transfer that knowledge across domains.