INCLUSIVE EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING

Abstract

This paper discusses the inclusive process and teacher training, which despite being widely discussed, this theme is little experienced by many professionals. Therefore, by focusing on this study, it seeks to bring important elements about the insertion of special students into the regular school environment, focusing on the concept of autism, which is a special condition in relation to teaching and the method of educating special students in relation to the role of teachers. Teachers play a fundamental role in the construction of classrooms for everyone and, in order to fulfill their social function as knowledge transferers, they must acquire skills to reflect on the teaching practices in the classroom and to perform in collaboration with their peers in order to collaborate in the construction of dynamic and inclusive educational approaches. Based on this premise, this research sought to identify the main obstacles and advances in classroom teaching practices, discussing possibilities of investment in the teacher's continuing process and the new challenges in the field of Inclusive education. Therefore, the main objective was to investigate the changes in teaching practice after the continuing education course focused on special education, seeking to identify how this knowledge has contributed to the pedagogical practice and professional growth of teachers working in inclusive education. To do so, the article will start from a descriptive and qualitative bibliographic review, through the analysis and study of articles, books and websites with issues pertinent to the theme. As a theoretical reference, the concepts of the authors CUNHA (2012), BENINI (2016), REGO (2014), among others who deal with the topic in question, were addressed. The research brought to light contents focused on the definition of special education highlighting the autism spectrum disorder (ASD), as well as the inclusion processes and difficulties about education aimed at students with such disorders were topics highlighted in this paper.