A Cooperative Seminar to Prepare Special Needs Education and Science Education Student Teachers for Collaborative Inclusive Science Teaching

Abstract

The education of prospective science teachers and prospective special education teachers is institutionalized separately at numerous universities. Students who have chosen to study special education or science subjects are confronted with requirements in their later professional practice in which they have to plan, implement and reflect on inclusive science lessons cooperatively with teachers of the respective other teaching profession. In school practice, successful cooperation between special education teachers and science teachers is therefore a central component for the support of all learners in an inclusive science classroom. Against this background, the aim of this paper is to present a cooperative seminar concept that focuses on basic competencies and attitudes of prospective science teachers and special educators for the cooperative design of inclusive science instruction.