This paper addresses the topic of inclusive school as the key to successful education for everybody. Today’s multifarious forms of problems related to diversity and manifesting themselves in classroom impose a change on the school: to outgrow uniform and straight organizational and teaching models in favor of a flexible approach that responds to the special learning needs of individual pupils. Quality of school is measured by its ability to develop inclusive learning processes, that is to say to provide adequate and effective answers to each and everyone. Through the analysis of the experience made in the school Oliver Twist in Como, this paper highlights the distinctive features of inclusive good practices which ultimately lead to deliver successful education for everyone, starting from the integration of disabled students. Acknowledging the value of diversity and differences as a resource is a challenge to the traditional role of the special education teacher, whose role in this school has evolved into the innovative profile of a co-teacher, thus extending the inclusive perspective to a competent special education framework.
Author: Cristina Ciociola
PhD at Università di Bergamo in Human Capital Formation and Labour Relations, I got my degree at Università Cattolica in Pedagogy for disability and marginality; I am Case Manager (master at Università Cattolica). Since 2011 I have been teacher in Oliver Twist VET school of Cometa Formazione, in charge of supporting students with disabilities and learning disabilities. My tasks include: adapting texts, simplifying comprehension, producing documents PDF, PEI, PDP (ICF classification), mediation and assisting teachers as co-teacher. My aim, both in practice and research, is to create an inclusive and personalized approach in learning activities; to support students in gaining basic skills and in their placement.