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CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR INCLUSION: Scoping provision in Ireland

CARMEL DUGGAN NCSE RESEARCH CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 25 TH

TH 2015

Rationale

Three key aspects:

• Central role of teachers and teaching quality in raising achievement

(OECD, 2005; OFSTED, 2006; WHO, 2011)

• Teachers feel they are not adequately prepared to support students with

SEN (Ware et al, 2011; Kinsella et al, 2014; Fortin, 2010; Tangen,2005)

• One in four Irish school children have a learning or special education need

(Banks and McCoy, 2011).

Objectives

Two objectives

• To identify and categorise CPD available to teachers in Ireland
• To provide a single source of information on CPD for teachers

Process

• Identify provision
• Collect detail
• Categorise in line with agreed template
• Verify information
• Populate data base
• Draft report

CPD – What’s included?

Start broad – narrow later:

• Open to all teachers
• Focused on inclusion, broadly defined
• Wide range of themes / approaches
• Overseas provision supported by SESS

Breadth of provision

• Post-graduate programmes
• Term-time short courses
• Summer courses
• Evening / weekend seminars
• One off / repeated / annual provision

Outputs

• A summary report overviewing current provision and highlighting issues
• A user-friendly updateable electronic database containing profiles of individual
• pportunities

Timeframe

November 2015: Project commences May 2016: First draft for review

Contact details

carmelmaryduggan@gmail.com