Innovation and care of students with Special Educational Needs

Abstract

We present the reflection on the relationship between innovation and educational attention to diversity in three parts:

- The concept of educational attention starting from the professional experience in a new school center, because as Carbonell (2006) says, an innovative project in a state school has to be both inclusive and integrating.

- The organization and methodology to encourage every single child to become the center of their process of learning, developing all their abilities and potentialities. Reflections upon the teacher’s role with these new approaches and the relationship established with the school families providing communication and participation. The use of active methodologies as free choice learning environments and project works helps direct and improve individual attention. These methodological strategies encourage to look for different ways of doing to be able to deal with the students individual attention in the school, regardless of what their needs are. However we must continue working with more resources, mainly with human resources, to improve towards an education absolutely inclusive.

- Guiding and monitoring the students with special needs inside the school, in order to be able to progress within their capabilities and make them feel part of the learning community, always from a positive look to continue improving.