11th International Scientific Conference Technics, Informatics and Education – TIE 2026, (pp. 531-536)
АУТОР(И) / AUTHOR(S): Georgia Douliaka 
and Lefkothea Kartasidou
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.46793/TIE26.531D
САЖЕТАК /ABSTRACT:
This paper introduces SINTHESIS, a dynamic professional development system designed to help secondary special education teachers meaningfully integrate ICT into inclusive teaching practices. The study addresses the ongoing fragmentation of ICT training in special needs education (SNE), where an emphasis on technical skills often hinders its application in the classroom. Based on a mixed-methods doctoral study, SINTHESIS combines large-scale needs assessment with iterative design and pilot implementation. The system comprises two interconnected subsystems: ACCORD, a structured framework for diagnosing and prioritizing professional development needs, and Flip2Include, a training model based on iTPACK. Positioned as an extension of the TPACK framework, iTPACK reconceptualizes inclusion as a transversal design principle across content, pedagogy, and technology. Within this perspective, technology is approached as a pedagogically grounded means of enabling access, participation, differentiation, and instructional coherence. Empirical findings from the needs assessment (N = 100) and the pilot implementation (N = 30) informed the system’s iterative refinement, indicating high levels of participant engagement and supporting the functional integration of pedagogical, technological, and inclusive design decisions. This paper argues that ICT professional development in SNE is more effective when needs diagnosis, instructional design, and context-sensitive implementation are systematically connected within a coherent, adaptive framework
КЉУЧНЕ РЕЧИ / KEYWORDS:
iTPACK; teacher professional development; inclusive pedagogy; special education; ICT integration
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