THE ROLE OF ICT FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION TRAINING ON INDIVIDUAL RESOURCES AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE WORK OF ITALIAN TEACHERS

The increase in the number of teachers who experience stress and burnout at work, with a decrease in the quality of their students' learning experience, brings attention to elements that can mitigate stress and burnout in these professionals. The literature reports self-efficacy and engagement in one's work as protective factors, which are also influenced by professional training such as the Italian TFA courses. This study, conducted after a 75-hour TFA Course on ICT for Special Education, aims to identify the relationship between good perceptions of learning outcomes after the TFA experience and some dimensions of well-being in the workplace such as work engagement, coping, work satisfaction and the dimensions of related to the educational technologies investigated by the ITIS scale. The research is based on a self-report structured survey conducted on a sample of 176 Italian teachers which attended the course between June and July 2021. The results confirm that training and support for implementing new teaching strategies has positive impacts on individual resources and attitudes toward work, acting on work engagement, coping with adverse and challenging situations and one’s perceptions of personal professional skills.