Role of Teacher Educator in Inclusive Education in 21st Century

From the very beginning, disabled children were considered unwanted and not treated like other children due to lack of knowledge, educational access and technology. After some time education was done in special schools. In present times there has been a drastic change towards disabled children. They joined the same schools where normal students go. Now educationists felt that every child has a right to learn according to his own will. With the Salamanca statement, inclusive education has been spread everywhere. It stated that Governments have to adopt inclusive education as a law where all children enrolled in regular schools. In inclusive education, we required skilled and competent teachers who are skillful to tackle the problem in the classrooms. Due to the lack of competent teachers, the dream of inclusive education cannot be fulfilled. Inadequate training of the teachers is one of the leading factors in the failure of the inclusive programs. The administration should organize in-service training for success of inclusive education. These training are arranged by DIETs, CTEs, IASEs and other national level institutes. But this is not possible without the help of teacher. With more competent, skilled and confident teachers the inclusive education has a very positive impact on the community people. It also helps in increasing the attendance of disabled children in regular school and it also contributes the growth and development of the society. Another important thing is that curriculum in during pre-service teacher education is not sufficient to fulfill the special education needs of differently able children. Therefore, teachers were incapable to fulfill the demands to modify the curriculum. Now in recent times, the teachers himself demands for the training for getting perfection in giving inclusive education.