SOME PECULIARITIES OF SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL SKILLS OF EDUCATORS OF DIFFERENT SPECIALITIES
Topicality of the article is determined by the growing demand of the modern society for evaluating the readiness of the educators to put inclusion in teaching process into practice in accordance with the educational and occupational standards. Significant trends in the skills enhancement of those educators who can turn out to be in demand in the process of developing continuous professional training of teachers of general educational institution are analysed. The comparative research on the degree of maturity of special educational skills possessed by educators of different specialties – teachers, education psychologists, logopedic teachers, special educators – based on the diagnostic study on metadisciplinary pedagogic skills, has been presented for the first time. The expanded description of individual indicators of the competence and the level of its mastering by different experts is given. The significant positive characteristics of the personal and professional attitude of pedagogues, which are related to the high level of conative willingness to work actively with children with limited health capacities in terms of inclusive environment and to the gathered experience of the psychological and pedagogic interaction within the context of existing organisational structures of the educational institutions. Typical professional shortages stemming from insufficient level of mastering of special technologies, methods and tools of developing of special educational environment are defined. The reflexive self-evaluation of the professional activities in the context of inclusive educational practices has been done as well.