Identifying Confidence Levels and Instructional Strategies of High School Agricultural Education Teachers When Working with Students with Special Needs

2010 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-101
Author(s):  
Kristin Stair ◽  
Gary Moore ◽  
Beth Wilson ◽  
Barry Croom ◽  
K.S.U. Jayaratne
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Confidence Levels ◽  
Agricultural Education Teachers

scholarly journals Perceptions and Educational Strategies of Louisiana Agricultural Education Teachers When Working with Students with Special Needs

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61
Author(s):  
Kristin S. Stair ◽  
J. Joey Blackburn ◽  
J. C. Bunch ◽  
Leslie Blanchard ◽  
Melissa Cater ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
After School ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Agricultural Education Teachers ◽  
The Given ◽  
And Training

A teacher’s willingness to accept inclusion has been identified as an indicator of the quality of experience that a student with special needs will have in the classroom The purpose of this exploratory study was twofold: (1) to describe the overall perceptions of working with students with special needs and (2) to determine how teachers in Louisiana are currently working with students with special needs.  A total of 152 teachers attended the Louisiana agricultural education teacher’s summer conference with 43% completing a three part survey instrument.  Data analysis indicated that teachers are confident in their ability to work with students with special needs and they agree that they can incorporate various areas of inclusion within their programs. However, they disagreed that they have received adequate in-service opportunities related to special education.  Regarding educational strategies, teachers in this study identified all of the given inclusion strategies as being used regularly in their programs with the exception of tutoring after school.  They also identified these educational practices as being highly effective within their programs. Due to the exploratory nature of this study, additional research is recommended to further investigate the in-service and training needs of teachers in Louisiana.

scholarly journals TEACHING TECHNIQUES APPLIED IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS (SMALB)

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Puji Rahayu
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Senior High School ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Teaching English ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Mainstream Students

Teaching English as a foreign language to students with special needs is somewhat different of those mainstream students. The teachers may face lots of difficulties and therefore, they must apply different techniques in teaching the students. The goal of this study is to figure out the techniques applied for Teaching English to students with special educational needs. This study is conducted in a Senior high school for students with special needs (SMALB) in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan. The study is based on classroom observations and interview with the English teacher. The findings conclude that teacher applied six different techniques in teaching English as follow; (1) transcription, (2) Question and Answer, (3) Repetition Drill, (4) Reading Aloud, (5) Memorization and (6) Reading aloud.Keywords: students with special educational needs, teaching techniques, english as a foreign language

scholarly journals The Potential To Learn: Pre-Service Teachers Proposed Use Of Instructional Strategies For Students With A Learning Disability

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Woodcock ◽  
Wilma Vialle
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
General Education ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Learning Disability ◽  
Instructional Strategies ◽  
General Education Teachers ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
Mainstream Classrooms ◽  
Service Training

Over recent years, moves toward the inclusion of students with special needs in mainstream classrooms has brought about increasing attention to the way general education teachers perceive these students. Commensurate with this has been a growing interest in what may constitute educational success for children with special needs in mainstream classrooms, plus the ability of general education teachers to provide effective and appropriate instruction for them. It is known that teachers form beliefs about the process of teaching during their pre-service training and also that once a belief has been held for a long time, it becomes extremely difficult to change (Bandura, 1977, and Liljedahl, 2005). With learning disabilities being one of the most common disabilities in the classroom (Clark, 1997, and Clark & Artiles, 2000), it was considered that the need to further explore pre-service teachers’ perceived use of instructional strategies in relation to students who have what is termed learning disabilities, is indeed critical. This study looked at the instructional strategies Australian pre-service teachers reported they would use for students with a learning disability compared to students without a learning disability. The findings show that pre-service teachers favour more direct teacher-centred instructional strategies for students with a learning disability and more learner-centred instructional strategies for students without a learning disability. The greatest discrepancy in strategy use between the two groups of students was the higher cognitive level instructional strategies within a learner-centred environment. Pre-service teachers would use these strategies more frequently with students who do not have a learning disability. Implications for future practice and recommendations for future research are presented.

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