Introduction

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Inclusion means that all students feel as if they belong and all students are successful in the school system. Inclusion is not just changing classes or teaching certain subjects aimed at making the students feel included.
 * Definition: **
 * __What is inclusion? __

It could be any student who feels alienated from school. It could be any student for whatever reason .Because of disability, race, economic factors, gender or culture, students not accepted for themselves.
 * __Who does not feel included? __

Inclusion does not happen because of attitudes, tradition, prejudice, ignorance, arrogance.
 * __Why does this happen? __

Inclusion happens when attitudes change, where there is a need, when schools and society analyse why some students are failing, when all students are recognised as having rights to belong.
 * __When does inclusion happen? __

Inclusion occurs when there is a global or social need for change, when schools begin to question how students’ are achieving at school, when parents are concerned;
 * __How does inclusion occur? __

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 * “Differences of the students’ experiences become disadvantages if the school system does not include all children to succeed". ** (Tunmer.W., 2007)

A meta-analysis by Slavin (1990) (as cited in Steel, 2005) found that there were no significant positive effects of ability grouping for any programmes, except acceleration for the gifted. Slavin & Braddock (1992) states that the gifted might only constitute 3%-5% of students and although special attention has to be provided to these students, it should not be to the detriment of the rest of the bigger group. As already suggested by Slavin (1995), a possible approach would be cooperative learning where the needs of the entire mixed ability group are catered for.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">The school, and not the teacher, determines if they will employ ability grouping in their classes and if they will only limit it to certain subjects, like mathematics. A good teacher should always apply a differentiated method of teaching as both heterogeneous and homogeneous classes will always have a range of ability to cater for and it is the teacher’s responsibility to make sure that learning occurs in either case.

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