КОНЦЕПЦІЯ ПІДГОТОВКИ МАЙБУТНЬОГО ВЧИТЕЛЯ ІНОЗЕМНОЇ МОВИ ДО НАВЧАННЯ УЧНІВ З ІНВАЛІДНІСТЮ: СТАН РОЗРОБЛЕНОСТІ ПРОБЛЕМИ

Abstract

According to Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Decree of Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine «On ratification of organization procedure of inclusive instruction in secondary educational institutions» and the Law of Ukraine «On education», children with special educational needs have a right for decent education on equal terms with others. The main prerequisite to fulfill this requirement is the appropriate training of would-be mainstream school teachers and, in particular, foreign language ones. The article is aimed at finding out what training is currently performed and at conducting the analysis of its conceptual. As the research conducted revealed, since 2013, 14 Ukrainian universities have been providing their students with a module «Catering for special educational needs» as a part of a cross-curricular course the Methods of teaching foreign languages. According to the course curriculum, the module is supposed to include 18 hours and to be delivered on the basis of a content-outline recommended. But academics are supposed to choose sources and documents independently. The search for any conceptual bases of preparing would-be English teachers for working with learners with disability showed no results. Thus, the analysis of researches dedicated to the correspondent training of would-be teachers of other specialties was done. It revealed a number of conceptual ideas applicable in English teacher training. It allows us to offer a conceptual idea of preparing would-be English teachers for teaching learners with disability. The structural components of such training are: motivational (students should acquire humanistic values), content (they must learn information related to the education and assessment of children with disabilities), organizational (they have to master the skills and initial experience of teaching and correctional work) and of control and assessment (students should be able to assess the learning outcomes of students with disabilities in inclusive environment).