scholarly journals Analysis of the Possibilities of the Initial Teachers Education Programs for The Development of Inclusive Competencies

Author(s):  
Lejla Muratović ◽  
Amer Ćaro

The implementation of inclusive education in practice results in greater complexity of the teacher's role, andpre-professional teacher's training imposes new approaches, values and expectations. The initial education is the first step in teachers’ professional training. Training of future teachers for competent performance in the field of inclusive practice should be one of the priorities in the development of curricula and programs of initial teacher's education. The aim of this research was to determine the possibilities of initial teacher's education for the acquisition and development of inclusive competencies. To obtain the necessary data, we used the documentation analysis procedure. We analyzed the initial teacher’s education programs at the University ˝Dzemal Bijedic˝ of Mostar, the University of Tuzla and the University of Zenica. The analysis of initial teacher’s education programs showed inconsistencies in the number and representation of subjects relevant to inclusive education at three universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, lack of cross-curricular approach to inclusive education, and lack of integration of theoretical and practical participation in curricula intended for the development of inclusive competencies. The obtained results imply the direction of changes within the initial teacher education program that would lead to the more efficient acquisition of inclusive competencies of future teachers.

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-37
Author(s):  
Chin-Wen Chien

Teachers should adjust their curriculum and instructional practice to meet the needs of individual learners, because one size does not fit all (Kaplan, Rogers, &Webster, 2008; Tomlinson, 2003). This study focuses on the implementation of differentiated instruction in products, “tiered assignments,” in a Children’s English class in a teacher education program in Taiwan. The study concludes that 52 college students held a positive attitude toward these tiered assignments and that they learned theories and instructional strategies not only from lectures and tasks in the university classes but also from completing different choices. Another important finding is that participants’ choice of completing these assignments is based on the level of easy of the assignments. Two suggestions are made to effectively implement differentiated instruction in products in teacher education programs in terms of explicitly modeling and explaining differentiated instruction in products and designing tiered assignments based on the levels of challenge as well as learners’ readiness, interests and profiles.


2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Anne Block ◽  
Paul Betts

Teacher candidates’ individual and collaborative inquiry occurs within multiple and layered contexts of learning. The layered contexts support a strong connection between the practicum and the university and the emergent teaching identities. Our understanding of teacher identity is as situated and socially constructed, yet fluid and agentic. This paper explores how agentic teaching identities emerge within the layered contexts of our teacher education program as examined in five narratives of teacher candidates’ experience. These narratives involve tension, inquiry, successes and risks, as teacher candidates negotiate what is means to learn how to teach, to teach and to critically reflect on knowledge needed to teach. We conclude that navigating teacher identity is a teacher candidate capacity that could be explicitly cultivated by teacher education programs.


2021 ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Ольга Анатольевна Козырева ◽  
Елена Петровна Хвастунова

Анализируется проблема необходимости формирования готовности будущих педагогов к инклюзии в процессе профессиональной подготовки в вузе, а также ее структурные компоненты и их содержание. В структуре указанного вида готовности выявляются мотивационный, когнитивный и операционно-деятельностный компоненты. Констатируется, что проблема готовности будущих педагогов к профессиональной деятельности в условиях инклюзии является проблемным полем в современном научном дискурсе, так как ее системное решение пока не найдено. Целью является исследование сформированности готовности будущих педагогов к инклюзии школьников в процессе профессиональной подготовки в вузе. Приводятся результаты эмпирического исследования сформированности готовности будущих педагогов к инклюзии школьников. Даются рекомендации по формированию профессиональной готовности будущих педагогов к инклюзии школьников в процессе обучения в университете, где изучаются на третьем и четвертом курсах следующие дисциплины: «Обучение лиц с ограниченными возможностями здоровья», «Психолого-педагогические основы инклюзивного образования»; происходит введение производственной (технологической в системе инклюзивного образования) практики на базе организаций образовательной и социальной сферы, оперативный мониторинг сформированности готовности будущих педагогов к инклюзивному образованию школьников с ОВЗ. The problem of the need to form the readiness of future teachers for inclusion in the process of professional training at a university is analyzed, as well as its structural components and their content. In the structure of this type of readiness, motivational, cognitive and operationalactivity components are revealed. It is stated that the problem of the readiness of future teachers for professional activity in conditions of inclusion is a problematic field in modern scientific discourse, since its systemic solution has not yet been found. The aim is to study the formation of the readiness of future teachers for the inclusion of schoolchildren in the process of professional training at a university. The article presents the results of an empirical study of the formation of the readiness of future teachers for the inclusion of schoolchildren. Recommendations are given on the formation of professional readiness of future teachers for the inclusion of schoolchildren in the process of studying at the university, consisting in enriching the content of training in the third and fourth years of the disciplines: «Teaching people with disabilities», «Psychological and pedagogical foundations of inclusive education»; the introduction of industrial (technological in the system of inclusive education) practice on the basis of educational and social organizations; operational monitoring of the formation of the readiness of future teachers for inclusive education of schoolchildren with disabilities.


Author(s):  
Ayman Massouti

This qualitative single case study aimed to examine the logics of one teacher education program towards preparing pre-service teachers for inclusive teaching from the perspectives of the program’s coordinators. In particular, the study aimed to understand the practices of these coordinators and how these practices are influenced by inclusive education and teacher education policies. This examination would reveal how education policies are enacted in this particular case. New-Institutionalism (NI) theory (DiMaggio & Powell, 1991) constituted the theoretical framework that guided the methodology as well as the analysis of the findings. The study revealed that the coordinators’ understanding and practices around the existing inclusion and teacher education policies emerge from their own experiences in this particular program, intermingled with their beliefs about how inclusion should be enacted in teacher education and schools. Key findings included coordinators developing inclusive mindsets among pre-service teachers, negotiating their logics towards inclusion through modeling inclusive teaching practices in the university classroom, and engaging them in critical discussions around inclusion policy practice in schools, and coordinators calling for a curriculum policy change. Recommendations for future teacher education programming in response to the evolving inclusive education are offered.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
Kalashnikova Svetlana A. ◽  

The relevance of the research is determined by a new social demand related to the implementation of inclusive education, the need to transform the content, forms and methods of professional training of future teachers in order to form their professional readiness to work in an inclusive educational space. The subject of a meaningful and structural analysis is the psychological readiness of future teachers to implement an inclusive approach in education within the framework of competence-based and axiological approaches. The study was conducted using theoretical methods-analysis, generalization, comparison, systematization. The main features of inclusive thinking as the basis of psychological readiness of future teachers for inclusive practice are selected: acceptance of inclusion as a normal way of functioning of an educational institution; understanding of an inclusive educational space as open to everyone; reorientation of the priorities of a teacher’s professional activity from achieving academic results to creating conditions for the formation of life competencies and successful socialization of children with disabilities; orientation to team interaction with all participants in the educational process, etc. The experience of forming the psychological component of inclusive readiness of future teachers is described in detail. It is argued that the technologies of contextual learning most meet the tasks of forming the psychological readiness of future teachers to implement inclusive practice. The scientific data on the methods of assessing the psychological readiness of teachers to implement inclusive practice are summarized. It is shown that the formation and qualified assessment of the psychological readiness of a future teacher to work in an inclusive education should be of a systematic and complex format. The presented materials can be taken into account when designing the content of professional educational programs in order to increase the effectiveness of the formation of future teachers’ psychological readiness to work in an inclusive practice. Keywords: professional readiness, inclusive readiness, psychological readiness of future teachers to implement an inclusive approach in education, inclusive thinking, formation and assessment of competencies


Author(s):  
Susana S. Garcia ◽  
Danilo V. Rogayan ◽  
Kenn Lesley M. Gagasa

The vision, mission, goals and objectives (VMGO) of any institution serve as its founding pillars in realizing its thrusts, mandates and aspirations. This descriptive cross-sectional survey research gauged the level of awareness and acceptability of the stakeholders on the university vision and mission statement, and the goals and objectives of the teacher education programs of a state institution in Central Luzon, Philippines. A total of 118 stakeholders, composed of administrators, faculty members, staff, alumni and students, served as the study respondents. Results showed that the stakeholders are very much aware of the university’s new vision statement and mission. They are also very much aware on the goals and objectives of the teacher education programs. Almost all stakeholders have full participation in the reformulation of the vision statement. Further, the VMGO are clear, understandable and acceptable as assessed by the university stakeholders. Massive information dissemination of the VMGO in all types of media is recommended. Stakeholders are also encouraged to take part in the realization of the university’s target outcomes and mandates


2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hemmings ◽  
Stuart Woodcock

AbstractSurvey-based research was conducted with preservice teachers, from a large regional Australian university, to explore their views about inclusion and their readiness to teach in inclusive classrooms. Open-ended questions were included in the survey to glean information on the respondents' feelings and concerns about inclusion and inclusive practices. In addition, questions were framed to allow the respondents to discuss ways that the university could better prepare them as practising teachers. The responses to each of these questions were content analysed to delineate categories, and frequencies were calculated on the most salient categories. The results of this analysis are reported and comparisons are made of the views expressed by the respondents before they experienced an inclusive education subject and a related practicum with those expressed after. The implications of the results for teacher education programs are considered.


1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 34-44
Author(s):  
Helen McDonald

James Cook University of North Queensland currently offers an affirmative action program enabling Aboriginal and Islander people to enter teacher education programs. This program - the Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education Program (AITEP) - began in 1977 at Townsville College of Advanced Education, now amalgamated with the university. In July 1987, there were about 130 undergraduate students enrolled in teacher education programs, having entered the university through AITEP. A similar program in community welfare now operates with over 20 students enrolled. Currently there are possibly around seven Aboriginal or Islander undergraduates who gained direct entry to university and four graduate students, including three who began their undergraduate studies through AITEP.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 134
Author(s):  
Munir Ahmed ◽  
Muhammad Azeem ◽  
Professor Dr. Ibrahim Khalid ◽  
Professor Dr. Irshad Ahmad Farrukh ◽  
Dr. Fazal Ahmed ◽  
...  

The objective of the study was to evaluate the present Pre-service Elementary Teacher Education Programs (B. Ed & equivalents) of SAARC Countries to reveal innovative ideas, which may be adopted and adapted in other countries including Pakistan. Reference books, journals, research papers, Encyclopedias of education, yearbooks, national educational policies, internet and such other resources were consulted to have an insight of these nations, their system of education and to retrieve salient features of a good Pre-service Elementary Teacher education program. Questionnaire named as “Questionnaire for Elementary Teacher Education program evaluation” was prepared, preened after pilot study at provincial capitals of Pakistan and presented to a team of local and foreign experts. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted to increase the quality and quantity of responses. In the light of high majority opinions criterion component were finalized. These components in the form of question were sent to the SAARC countries through the relevant Embassies, graduate facilitators, who on my behalf collected data. Collected data was sorted out and matched with the already developed criteria. Result revealed that Indian system of Teacher Education matches the criteria most. Pakistan has many mismatches but Elementary Teacher Education Program offered by the University of Education, Lahore and its associated colleges is bridging this gap successfully. Bhutan, Bangladesh and Maldives are showing improvements. The experiments of Sri Lanka & Nepal have many lessons to learn.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-64
Author(s):  
Mara E. Culp ◽  
Karen Salvador

Music educators must meet the needs of students with diverse characteristics, including but not limited to cultural backgrounds, musical abilities and interests, and physical, behavioral, social, and cognitive functioning. Music education programs may not systematically prepare preservice teachers or potential music teacher educators for this reality. The purpose of this study was to examine how music teacher education programs prepare undergraduate and graduate students to structure inclusive and responsive experiences for diverse learners. We replicated and expanded Salvador’s study by including graduate student preparation, incorporating additional facets of human diversity, and contacting all institutions accredited by National Association of Schools of Music to prepare music educators. According to our respondents, integrated instruction focused on diverse learners was more commonly part of undergraduate coursework than graduate coursework. We used quantitative and qualitative analysis to describe course offerings and content integration.


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