Abstract

Sixty pre-service teachers were surveyed about their confidence, concerns, and efficacy for inclusive classroom teaching before and after a course on inclusive education. Some students experienced a practicum in an inclusive setting alongside the coursework, and some students did not. Both groups made significant gains in all dependent variables and their subscales from pre- to post-treatment. However, the students who experienced a practicum in an inclusive setting developed greater teacher efficacy in classroom management than those students with no practicum. Given the importance of successful classroom management to teacher retention and student success, the findings support the importance of high-quality inclusive practica as an essential feature of effective inclusive teacher preparation programs. Nous avons fait une enquete aupres de soixante enseignants avant l’emploi; les questions portaient sur leur niveau de confiance, leurs preoccupations et leur efficacite a creer une salle de classe inclusive avant et apres un cours sur l’education inclusive. Certains etudiants ont fait un stage dans un milieu inclusif en plus de leur travail de cours, d’autres n’ont pas suivi le stage. Les deux groupes ont realise des progres importants relativement a toutes les variables et leurs sous-echelles entre le pre- et le post-traitement. Toutefois, les etudiants ayant passe par le stage dans un milieu inclusif sont devenus plus efficaces dans la gestion de salle de classe que ceux n’ayant pas fait le stage. Compte tenu de l’importance d’une bonne gestion de classe dans le maintien a leur poste des enseignants et dans la reussite des eleves, les resultats de cette etude viennent appuyer le role d’un stage de qualite dans un milieu inclusif comme composante essentielle des programmes de formation des enseignants.

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