Inclusion in teacher training

Brandenburg is serious: The small state soon forms no more special education - but accumulates all teacher education programs with special educational content to.

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A special education teacher alone does not make inclusive education. It also requires teachers who know what makes a child and what kind of support it needs. The University of Potsdam draws conclusions from it: It starts in the winter semester 2013/14, two new courses for the primary school: one has a focus on "basic education, " the other "educational inclusion".
While the students of the first course in all subjects - from German to social studies to art - are trained, the study focuses on the inclusion of educators on the compulsory subjects German and math But the three focal points are added, which are most in demand in the schools: learning, language, social-emotional development.

Lessons for the future with multi-professional teams

geleistet wird – in Brandenburgs sechsjährigen Grundschulen würde dann ein Klassenlehrer (mit dem Profil Grundschulbildung) gemeinsam mit einem Inklusionspädagogen unterrichten. The idea behind this model is that the lessons of the future is made ​​of multi-professional teams - in Brandenburg six years of primary school teachers would teach a class (with the profile of primary education) together with an inclusion teacher. These two draw specialists added in individual cases - such as a speech therapist for a stuttering child or a psychologist for an autistic child.

That the University of Potsdam and Brandenburg this - really obvious - way to go, is not self-evident. Often, namely the confession ends for inclusion with a bit of fine tuning on the curricula: Thus according to a survey by the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHE) Although made ​​a dozen universities inclusion now made ​​mandatory to focus on the study, which is reported on the certificate. But at second glance, just almost only in the degree programs of special education - often in upper secondary education or vocational schools.

Inclusion does not address the teaching profession throughout

And expertise of the teachers' union shows that inclusion is not addressed throughout the teaching profession. Thus, the requirement that an examination of both inclusion in the study and in the clerkship must be given only applies in Rhineland-Palatinate and Berlin. And only four states to take all types of teaching in the duty - keeping the other inclusion is still a matter of special educators.

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Links:
The Department of Education of the University of Potsdam
The field of action "in school" Aktion Mensch
"School for all clothing": The practical issue of human action for Teachers (PDF)
Inclusion study: Overview of the universities and colleges that offer bachelor's and master's degree programs and continuing education opportunities on inclusion
Master of inclusion? A blog post by Eva Keller on education and training opportunities on inclusion
Inclusion and giftedness. A blog post by Eva Keller on the job training "Including Gifted in daycare and elementary school" at the University of Rostock