ABSTRACT
Issues of equality of opportunity and educational inclusion are very high profi le and
important in current policy debates on education. Ensuring inclusion means responding to
the needs of each individual pupil. This means respecting all kinds of diversity within the
classroom, as well as making the curriculum accessible to all learners. It is the teacher’s
role to enable each pupil to feel part of the learning process, and to make sure that all
learners make progress. Dale Banham (2014) makes the point that if you are to get all pupils
to commit wholeheartedly to learning in their history lessons, every pupil must feel that
they can get something out of the lesson, and there is an art to getting across to pupils that
they can all make progress in history, whether they are able pupils, or struggling to do well
in the subject.
