Remote training of teachers for IT navigation in inclusive education

Abstract

Education moves more and more to the online educational environment where new educational tools and methods appear. For the organization and maintenance of the educational process in the online environment, and especially for the training of people with special opportunities for health and disability, the special knowledge and skills adapted under opportunities of the digital medium are necessary for the teacher. The number of the new requirements connected with the ability to execute functions of the tutor or the navigator in the acquisition of knowledge is imposed on teachers. The description of the developed online course "Adaptive Technologies for IT Navigation in Inclusive Education" is presented in the article. Forming of necessary professional competences of teacherstutors is performed utilizing methodical providing the online course (author's video lectures, presentation materials, online webinars, cases, estimated materials of different types, additional materials, and hyperlinks on actual third-party resources), based on the complex of active methods of training and application of modern educational and information technologies including the e-learning technologies. Implementation of the online course promotes the solution of the problem of training of the teachers-tutors ready to the application of adaptive digital technologies in inclusive education that meets the requirements of the state policy for creation open for all without restrictions of digital educational space