Volume : VI, Issue : X, October - 2017

Teachers for All: Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities

Dev Nandan Kumar

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 Globally we need more well–trained and motivated teachers. Good teachers can help and ensure that every child learns to their full potential from an early age and enters adult life well–equipped to be active citizens and support the development of their community and country. The newly enacted Rights of persons with Disabilities (RPD) Act 2016 mandates all educational institutes funded or recognized by the government shall admit Children with Disabilities and extend all facilities of accessible environment, books, scholarships teacher training, professional training colleges and take all measures on promoting inclusion. Thus the essence of provisions of RPD Act 2016 desires that each and every school in the country has ultimately emerged as an inclusive education. Moreover, as per the clause 47 of the RPD Act 2016, (which envisaged the Human Resource Development), Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) has been bestowed the responsibility to develop special education teachers by making different provision for inclusive education at different level. There is a prime responsibility for the stakeholders of disability rehabilitation & special education to relook at the special teacher’s development programmes prevailing in our country. There is an urgent need to necessary up gradation of curriculum of teacher education in order to cater the need of children with disabilities and promote inclusive education. This paper discusses the required change in the roles and responsibilities of existing teachers in the context of inclusive education, quality of teacher education programmes and its curriculum, strategy to idge the gap of trained teachers and additional competencies that they would need to have in order to be successful in inclusive classrooms.

 

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Dev Nandan Kumar, Teachers for All: Inclusive Education for Children with Disabilities, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-6 | Issue-10 | October-2017

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