Mapping of New Student Admission in Inclusive Education Learning at Al-Firdaus Elementary School Surakarta

Abstract

Inclusive education is an educational service system that provides opportunities for all children to study together in the school with attention to diversity and individual needs. This research aims at knowing about how school doing identifying all children as special individual needs. This study uses descriptive qualitative research methodology. The authors observe directly to the field to obtain the primary data and conducted documentation studies to collect secondary data. In addition, the researchers employ direct and indirect interviews. This work concludes that the implementation of inclusive education, especially the identification of special individual needs of all new students in al-Firdaus elementary school, going through five steps; (1) mapping assignment of new students with special individual needs, (2) appointing teacher who is in charge of classification of new students with special individual needs, (3) Implementation of the mapping, (4) tools preparation for mapping, and (5) following-up mapping with learning needs of new students with special individual needs. Keywords— special individual needs; inclusion; learning.