THE INCLUSIVE SCHOOL AND TEACHER TRAINING: AN EXPERIENCE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN ITALY

To make the Italian school an inclusive school the MIUR, the Ministry of Education, University and Research, has launched a series of training courses for teachers of Italian schools of all levels to better spread the culture of inclusion and to share best practices on pupils with Special Educational Needs (BES). The Territorial Center of Support (CTS) Cariteo-Italico of Naples, on the recommendation of the MIUR -General Directorate of the Student and of the Regional School Office (USR) for the region Campania, having been commissioned to manage a regional training activities aimed at school teachers of all levels in the region with the aim of forming a contact BES in every school, it has organized training activities with the SInAPSi Centre of the University of Naples Federico II and the University of Salerno. The formation, through the flipped learning model, involved the construction of a theoretical path in e-learning, 12 learning objects structured into video lessons, slides, handouts and assessment sections for a total of 18 hours of use, provided the students the theoretical contents and the fundamental legal references, ways in which it was outlined the path of self-study that the students have deepened to better prepare for the laboratorial lessons; a series of 4 meetings structured as workshop.