Twenty-first century teachers are faced with challenges and rapid societal changes that inevitably require skills that facilitate the development of resilience and coping factors. These factors become fundamental above all for specialized teachers, who today are indispensable figures for integrating and supporting not only the individual student with difficulties, but the entire class group. In this regard, the contribution presents some results of a research carried out on 139 enrolled in the Active Formative Training (AFT) course on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for special teaching, to identify the skills and limitations perceived during their professional career. From the results of the interviews, it emerges that the participants in the training, mostly teachers, consider some aspects related to teaching practices and the working context as indispensable to develop processes of inclusion at school, which in turn are associated with perceived emotional, social, and cognitive competencies.
Le Life Skills come risorsa per avviare processi di inclusione a scuola: uno studio sui partecipanti al TFA.
Gli insegnanti del XXI secolo si trovano di fronte a sfide e a rapidi cambiamenti sociali, che richiedono inevitabilmente delle competenze che facilitino lo sviluppo di fattori di resilienza e di coping. Tali fattori diventano fondamentali soprattutto per gli insegnanti specializzati, che ad oggi sono delle figure indispensabili per integrare e sostenere non soltanto il singolo alunno con difficoltà, ma l’intero gruppo classe. A tale proposito il contributo presenta alcuni risultati di una ricerca svolta su 139 iscritti al corso Tirocinio Formativo Attivo (TFA) sulle Tecnologie Informatiche e di Comunicazione (TIC) per la didattica speciale, per identificare le competenze e i limiti percepiti durante il proprio percorso professionale. Dai risultati delle interviste emerge come i partecipanti alla formazione, per lo più insegnanti, considerino alcuni aspetti legati alle pratiche didattiche e al contesto lavorativo come indispensabili per sviluppare processi di inclusione a scuola, che a loro volta sono associati alle competenze emotive, sociali e cognitive percepite.
The paper aims at investigating what the fundamental characteristics of a trainee of the Courses of Studies in Education and Training Sciences of the University of Rome La Sapienza are, as identified by the company tutors who evaluate them during the traineeship. The aim is to understand whether trainees are trained to act in educational settings. The analysis of a particular item of the questionnaire addressed to the company tutors, has shown that the trainees in the educational field are well integrated in the institution where they do the treaineeship, thanks to the possession of “key skills” that we have deduced from the open responses of the tutors. These skills are also among the most requested ones by the world of work. We conclude that the traineeship is an important formative moment for the professions in the educational field and that it is possible to grasp the necessary link between theory and practice.
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