Autonomy supporting teaching and self-guidance

What is the essence of the program?

Focused training for educational teams working in special education frameworks, which provides them with tools and imparts research-based teaching methods for enhancing the inner motivation of their students, building their sense of capability and developing their reasoned decision-making skills.

Why is this important?

Often, children and youths develop a high level of dependency on significant persons in their lives. Throughout the years, this dependency leads to difficulties in developing a sense of capability, inner motivation and self-guidance, which are required for their lives as adults.

Special education teachers have great impact on their students' future, and it is in their power to aid their maturation process at school in a manner supporting their complex transition to adult life. This is achieved via an innovative educational approach: Autonomy-supporting teaching, which provides the students with tools for self-management through significant learning.

What will we learn during the training?

• What characterizes the maturation process?
• Consolidating identity in youths with disabilities.
• The role of the school and the teachers, and how they affect the development and maturation process of their students.
• What autonomy-supporting teaching is, why it is important during adolescence, and how it is implemented in practice in the students' lives in the classroom.

Who is the program suitable for?

The program is suitable for teachers in special education schools and in small classes for special education students in regular schools.