Intervention 12 – Seminars On Roles And Awareness Of Inclusive Education Started

“Seminars on Roles and Awareness of Inclusive Education” within the scope of Awareness Raising Campaign to be conducted for mainstream school managers and Guidance and Research Center (GRC) managers started in Ankara as of 22 June 2021.

The campaign, implemented in order to combat prejudices in inclusion in education, remove barriers to inclusive education and contribute to improving the quality of special education services, is organized for mainstream school managers and GRC managers. In this context, awareness seminars will be held in Ankara, Adana, Balıkesir, Bursa, Diyarbakır, Erzurum, İstanbul, İzmir, Kahramanmaraş, Konya, Samsun and Trabzon, which are the pilot provinces of the Operation. 35 seminars will be conducted in total and the roles of the managers in development of inclusive education, their duties and responsibilities in eliminating the obstacles in inclusive education and methods of communication with the families of children with special education needs will be discussed.

A total of 200 managers from 106 GRCs in 12 pilot provinces of the Operation and 500 school managers selected from mainstream schools in these provinces will participate in the one-day seminars that will be organized as part of the Awareness Raising Campaign.