Increasing the Quality of Special Education Services for Inclusive Education (IQSES)

Increasing the Quality of Special Education Services for Inclusive Education (IQSES)

TREESP2.1.IQSES

01.08.2019 – 31.12.2023 (Implementation period has been completed on 31.12.2023)

Directorate General for Special Education and Guidance Services of the Ministry of National Education

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(Implementation period has been completed on 31.12.2023)

The Operation consists of a 53 month service and an 18-month grant component.

The overall objective of the operation is to improve the quality of education and training. The specific objective of the operation is to ensure the integration of students with special education needs to the society by increasing the quality of special education services offered.

Within the scope of the service component, through 4 different Interventions; "Institutional Capacity Building", "Awareness Raising", "Scientific and Technical Studies" and “Coordination and Cooperation", it was aimed to provide trainings for MoNE staff regarding special education; to organise awareness-raising activities for families, school managers and local actors; to prepare an impact analysis in the field of special education and to increase cooperation and coordination with the NGOs. Service contract was implemented in 12 pilot provinces; Ankara, Adana, Balıkesir, Bursa, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, İstanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Konya, Samsun and Trabzon.

In the grant component; it was aimed to improve the quality of education for students with special education needs, to diversify the educational materials, to support competencies of mainstream and special education teachers via trainings and to raise awareness of families, students and teachers.

Service contract was signed on 25.06.2019, the project implementation commenced on 01.08.2019 and ended on 31.12.2023.

Within the scope of the service component, by the end of January 2024:

• On 17.12.2019, an opening conference was held with 294 participants (207 from Ankara, 87 from out of Ankara).

• For the development and revision of In-Service Training Programmes, focus group meetings were held with the participation of 131 people and more than 45.000 questionnaires were conducted.

• Training Need Analysis studies for In-Service Training Programmes have been completed, and teacher trainings for 5.000 teachers under 10 special education modules have been completed. A total of 5.080 teachers were provided with trainings. In order to ensure the sustainability of the project, a team of 492 teachers were trained as trainers to carry out In-Service Training programmes.

• Planning and material preparation for STEM trainings under 5 modules, in which it had been planned that 700 BİLSEM teachers would take part, have been completed and 732 BİLSEM teachers have participated to STEM trainings.

• Response to Intervention Model activity, which had been planned as a supporting tool for inclusive education, was developed.

• In order to ensure the continuity of “Response to Intervention” Model implemented in pilot schools, 120 teachers in the relevant pilot schools were provided with training of trainers (ToTs).

• Awareness-raising activities in 12 pilot provinces for families, NGOs, school and RAM managers were completed. 1.645 persons were reached via seminars.

• Impact assessment analysis research activity of the identification and placement system within the scope of 96 RAMs in 12 pilot provinces has been completed.

• Summit on Special Education and Experience Sharing Meeting was held between 21-22.06.2022 with 1.737 participants in Ankara.

• 11 MoNE staff received Sign Language Training between May 29 and June 16, 2023. • Study visits to Finland, Portugal and Finland for the second time were carried out with the participation of 30 teachers from pilot schools.

• Positive Images of Children with Special Education Needs Exhibition and Closing Programme was held in Ankara on December 19, 2023, with the participation of 131 adults and 83 children.

Under the grant component, selection and award of projects have been completed and 43 projects from 26 different provinces with implementation periods ranging from 12 to 18 months started as of 01.11.2021. Due to termination of one grant contract, 42 projects have been implemented and implementation periods of all the grant projects have been completed. 

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