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"An inclusive, learning-friendly environment (ILFE) welcomes, nurtures, and educates all children regardless of their gender, physical, intellectual, social, emotional, linguistic, or other characteristics. They may be disabled or gifted children, street or working children, children of remote or nomadic peoples, children from linguistic, ethnic or cultural minorities, children affected by HIV/AIDS, or children from other disadvantaged or marginalized areas or groups"--Page 6. "Through this Toolkit, you will learn what an "inclusive, learning-friendly environment" is and how your school and classroom can create such an environment (Booklet 1). You will also learn how very important families and communities are to the whole process of creating and maintaining an inclusive, learning-friendly environment, as well as how to involve parents and community members in the school, and how to involve children in the community (Booklet 2). You will learn what barriers exclude rather than include ALL children in school, how to identify those children who are not in school, and how to deal with barriers to their inclusion in school (Booklet 3). You will learn how to create an inclusive classroom and why becoming inclusive and learning-friendly is so important to children's achievement, how to deal with the wide range of different children attending your class, and how to make learning meaningful for all (Booklet 4). You will learn how to manage an inclusive classroom including planning for teaching and learning, maximizing available resources, managing group work and cooperative learning, as well as how to assess children's learning (Booklet 5). Finally, you will learn ways to make your school healthy and protective for ALL children, and especially those with diverse backgrounds and abilities who are more prone to becoming ill, malnourished, or victimized (Booklet 6)"--Page 11.

OCLC: 705782533