On March 31, 2022, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) issued a Notice of the Plan for the Capacity Development, Recruitment, and Training of Teachers for Special Needs Education (No. 2668) to superintendents of prefectural boards of education, designated cities, and core cities.
This Notice requests boards of education to take concrete measures to implement the contents of the report compiled on March 31, 2022 by the Study Council on the Modality of Training Teachers Responsible for Special Needs Education.
Specifically, the report requests each board of education to devise measures, such as:
For more information, please visit the website below (Japanese only):
Report of the Study Council on the Training of Teachers for Special Needs Education:
https://www.mext.go.jp/b_menu/shingi/chousa/shotou/173/index.html
Notice:https://www.mext.go.jp/content/20220331-mxt_tokubetu01-000021707_5.pdf