Preparing would-be specialists to work with families of children with special educational needs

Abstract

Collaboration with families raising a child with special educational needs, is part of the professional activities of special needs teacher and one of the conditions of its efficiency as a whole. The partnership of teachers and families provides effective psycho-pedagogical support of development of the pupils. Accordingly, experts of special and inclusive institutions shall be professionally competent in matters of such interaction. The study revealed certain gaps in the training of students to work with parents, the insufficiency of their practical readiness to work in partnership. Formation of readiness of future special needs teachers to work with families should be implemented in stages throughout the training period. Preparation tasks should gradually become more complex: from development of initial ideas about family education to master the creative experience in working with families. The implement of the underlying interdisciplinary linkages between disciplines of different cycles, practice of students, their independent and research work should be carried out. The technique of formation of readiness of future specialists to work with families of children with special educational needs requires significant changes as well. Development of modern content, methods of complete continuous training of future special needs teachers to work with families of students is the prospect of further scientific studies.