Design based on ICF. The training courses for in-service teachers

The bio-psychosocial model is increasingly becoming the reference for the planning/organization of inclusive interventions, in Europe and in the Italian schools. The ICF has been one of the main topics (l. 107/2015) in the last three-year Italian teacher training plan but it requires to change the traditional way of consider and train on the design skill of teachers. The work presents the procedures, the technique and the early results of three professional training courses evaluation (years 2017-2019). The courses involved 73 in-service teachers in a southern Italian area and aimed to enhance the design skills of Individualized Education Plan (IEP) based on ICF model. According to the Kirkpatrick Model, the evaluation has been conducted on the teachers’ ‘learnings’ and ‘transfer’ detected through pre-post test and a document analysis of the PEI-ICF produced. The study highlighted few linguistic and semantic difficulties (alphanumeric codes, meanings of capacity and performance in the reading of the Functional Profiles) and a better teachers’ sensitivity to the environmental component of the functioning. It also outlines some procedures in order to evaluate the training ‘results’, in terms of learning stability. This offers some useful arguments for the construction of a possible trans-national platform - sharing of practices, data-base – about the training of school teachers on ICF bio-psychosocial model.