Task

You will need access to a pen and paper or a drawing tool on your phone or laptop.

Complete the following exercise using only your left hand.

Write a statement about what you would like to study and share your statement with another person.

Please see the examples below from our demo students:

Questions:

What do you think of this activity?
Was it inclusive?
How did you feel about it?
Did it enable you to do your best work?

For anyone who is left-handed, we would expect your responses to be positive. If you are right-handed, you may have had a different response. Here are a few responses from the sample images above this panel:

My left-hand effort – I had to work hard to write coherently, and it took me much longer than normal.
I really didn't enjoy doing this task - I had to do it in a public work space and it made me feel really useless and stupid. I was embarrassed what people would think if they saw my work - I didn't want to show it to anyone! There has got to be inclusive practice in education - doing things one way doesn't work for everyone.

We can all probably draw on experiences in education where we have felt included and excluded. We all have a responsibility to learn about how we can make our practice inclusive through listening, learning and appreciating the different journeys we have all had with educational experiences.

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