The inclusive learning theory suggests that the environment of your classroom affects your students' ability to learn. If your lessons are focused to specific groups of students, other students will grow detached from your lecture. This theory suggests a multicultural or multiperspective approach to teaching, while paying close attention to your own behavior and how it establishes feelings of equality and inclusion in your classroom.
As a teacher, you should learn and use your students' names, recognizing each of them as individuals in your classroom. This is socially empowering and similar to the responsibility to acknowledge people when you are speaking to them socially. Prepare your lessons from multiple backgrounds, acknowledging the different perspectives in your students. This includes using a few different examples, inspired by the personal backgrounds of your students. Provide accommodations for students with special needs but make sure the accommodations allow them to remain as part of your class. This may include special out-of-class work or group work in class that helps reinforce your lesson to special needs students.
The goal of an inclusive learning environment is a fair and equal classroom that encourages participation instead of discouraging it. This entails understanding how discouragement works and learning to avoid it. Another goal is for you to develop a learning environment where you do not sustain microinequities in your classroom. Microinequities are subtle discouraging or discriminating policies, such as disregarding some female students when they speak or always asking male students for answers before you ask your female students. You should always strive for positive encouragement.
Inclusive learning theory suggests that a teacher's curriculum can be filled with discouraging perspectives or microinequities. You should review your lesson plans, asking yourself from what perspective you wrote each lesson. Include additional perspectives or concerns with all of your lessons, in order to connect with and make your lessons relevant for all students. For instance, a lesson about the Civil War may already include perspectives from African Americans and men from both sides of the war, but you can include information about women from the period, how they contributed and what their views were.