I find the image where three young people are attempting to watch a ball game very powerful, it is a great example to demonstrate equality and equity. It highlights the idea that we should identify the barriers and overcome those so that all learners are able get the most out of their learning experience.

In my lesson, students will be offered the choice of how they can access the content, information will be represented in a variety of ways, for example, I will provide reading materials, videos for visual and auditory learners. I will also use the interactive resource on H5P to create some formative questions that students can answer while they are watching a video; this will help them check their understanding, if they grasped the key points.

I will offer students different options through which they can express themselves and demonstrate their learning; they can write an essay or present their work in a video or infographics.

I will provide various means of engagement. Learners will be able to collaborate with other learners through discussion sessions and this will allow them to feel part of the learning community. They will also have the opportunity to reflect on their learning, completing self-assessments; for example, they can have a better insight on how they learn best.

In my lesson, there will be mixed abilities discussion groups. I believe that it is a great way to help learners without special needs to develop the “cognitive effort required to explain themselves and [to benefit] from the contributions of peers with SEN from which they can learn”. (Roldán, Marauri, Aubert and Flecha, 2021).

If ever there is a pandemic, I will adjust my lessons to ensure that all my students are able to access the learning. I will implement blended learning, synchronous and asynchronous. Sometimes, not all the students are able to access their lessons if it they are being taught synchronously. Perhaps, there is only one computer in a household and if more than one learner has to use it to attend their classes, then some of the learners are bound to miss the synchronous learning. Therefore, by including asynchronous content in my lesson, my learner can access the learning content in his or her own time.

I was reading a peer’s blog ESL Technician (opened.ca) and I found that it was very interesting that they have modified their plan, changing in from a debate to a role-play in order to ensure that all the learners could benefit from the learning.

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Roldan, Silvia Molina, et al. “How Inclusive Interactive Learning Environments Benefit Students Without Special Needs.” Frontiers in Psychology, 2021, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8116690/. Accessed 1 Jul. 2023.