Teaching-Learning-Modules for a teacher education sensitive to inclusion

Development, realization and evaluation in the framework of “design-based-research”

Abstract

Given the importance of a teacher education sensitive to inclusion, the project FDQI-HU develops new seminars for students of specific subject didactics in cooperation between six subject didactics and the cross-disciplines general didactics, rehabilitation studies, and language education. In addition to sensitizing future teachers for heterogeneous learning groups, the seminars aim at increasing the students’ adaptive teaching competencies. Following the principles of “design-based research” (DBR), FDQI-HU develops, tests and evaluates corresponding learning and teaching modules. The modules’ contents are based on Beck et al.’s (2008) concept of “adaptive teaching competency”. In addition, issues of language education, sensitivity towards heterogeneity, and principles of the “didactic model for inclusive teaching and learning” feed into the development of the modules. First, the text outlines the need for a teacher education sensitive to inclusion and summarizes the DBR framework. Second, the paper presents the two cycles of the seminar’s development by outlining the theory that the design is based upon, the contents and characteristics of the courses, as well as the accompanying evaluation and exemplary results. Finally, the text discusses the FDQI-HU approach with regard to sustainability in the field of teacher education.