ESSENTIAL COMPETENCES IN THE INITIAL TRAINING OF AN INCLUSIVE TEACHER. A PROJECT OF THE EUROPEAN AGENCY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL NEEDS SPECIALS
Keywords:
Initial teacher education, competences, inclusive education, values, believes.Abstract
This paper explain the objectives and some outputs of European Agency for Development in Special Needs Education project, Teacher Education for Inclusion (TE4I), that has explored how all teachers must be prepared via their initial training to be ‘inclusive’. The three year project set out to identify the essential skills, knowledge and understanding, attitudes and values needed by everyone entering the teaching profession, regardless of the subject, specialism or age range they will teach or the type of school they will work in. One output of this project is the Profile of Inclusive Teachers. Core values, believes and areas of competence regarding this profile are describe an analyzedDownloads
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