Training Future Teachers to Organize the Educational Process in the Conditions of Inclusive Education

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to develop the methodology of training future teachers to organize educational process in inclusive educational environment and implement it in the educational process in pedagogical university. The pedagogical experiment involved 157 students of H. S. SkovorodaKharkiv National Pedagogical University (EG 152 students) and of Municipal Establishment ‘Kharkiv Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy’ of the Kharkiv Regional Council (CG 54 students). All the participants gave the informed consent on taking part in the pedagogical experiment. The motivational criterion was evaluated applying questionnaires and testing; the content criterion – ‘Diagnosis of future teachers’ readiness to organize educational process in inclusive environment’; procedural and behavioural –task method, business games; reflexive criterion –self-evaluation methods, oral and written surveys. The criteria (motivational, content, procedural and behavioural, reflexive) and the levels of their formation (high, medium, low) were developed to evaluate the future teachers’ formed readiness to organize educational process in conditions of inclusive education. Experimental implementation of the developed methodology testified positive results in the level of formation of future educators’ readiness. The designed methodology promoted development of students’ inclusive education competencies, facilitated modification of the curriculum, adoption of specific strategies that meet the needs of every student, and encouraged students’ positive attitude towards inclusion as an educational phenomenon.