scholarly journals Beyond the School Walls: Keeping Interactive Learning Environments Alive in Confinement for Students in Special Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garazi Álvarez-Guerrero ◽  
Ane López de Aguileta ◽  
Sandra Racionero-Plaza ◽  
Lirio Gissela Flores-Moncada
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Interactive Learning ◽  
Interactive Learning Environments ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
World Population ◽  
Education Students

The COVID-19 pandemic and the accompanying safety measures, including confinement, has meant an unprecedented challenge for the world population today. However, it has entailed additional difficulties for specific populations, including children and people with disabilities. Being out of school for months has reduced the learning opportunities for many children, such as those with less academic resources at home or with poorer technological connectivity. For students with disabilities, it has entailed losing the quality of the special attention they often need, in addition to a more limited understanding of the situation. In this context, a case study was conducted in a special education classroom of a secondary education school. This class started implementing Dialogic Literary Gatherings with their special education students before the COVID-19 confinement and continued online during the confinement. Qualitative data was collected after a period of implementation of the gatherings showing positive impacts on the participants. The case study shows that interactive learning environments such as the Dialogic Literary Gatherings can provide quality distance learning for students with disabilities, contributing to overcome some of the barriers that the pandemic context creates for the education of these students.

scholarly journals Interface das políticas da Educação Especial e Educação do Campo sobre a formação de professores

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Arlindo Lins de Melo Junior ◽  
Ivan Fortunato ◽  
Jackeline Silva Alves ◽  
Teresa Cristina Leança Soares Alves
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Special Education ◽  
Rural Education ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Rural Schools ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Legal Documents

In special education and rural education interface we find important points about teacher training and their reflexes in the schooling of special education students in rural schools. This paper fulfills the objective of analyzing fundamental documents of the two teaching modalities in question in order to understand mainly what concerns teacher training. The methodological path used in the construction of this text was guided by documentary research of four legal documents of the two teaching modalities. In the policy interface, we saw that the investigated documentation shows concern with the quality of teacher training, although it does not deal with careers and professional development, nor with more specific aspects of the role of Higher Education Institutions in their training. In the end, it is hoped that the discussions presented here will help to promote new and denser research on the fundamental role that teachers play in rural schools.

scholarly journals The Impact of Evidence-Based Dialogic Training of Special Education Teachers on the Creation of More Inclusive and Interactive Learning Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Rodríguez-Oramas ◽  
Pilar Alvarez ◽  
Mimar Ramis-Salas ◽  
Laura Ruiz-Eugenio
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Special Needs ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Special Education Teachers ◽  
Interactive Learning ◽  
Interactive Learning Environments ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Students With Special Needs ◽  
The Impact

In the international context of a progress toward more inclusive educational systems and practices, the role of Special Education teachers is being transformed. From an inclusive perspective, these professionals increasingly support students and their teachers in the mainstream classroom, avoiding segregation. However, Special Education teachers often struggle to reach and support all students with special needs and their teachers to provide quality inclusive education. For this reason, more research is still needed on in-service training strategies for the inclusion of students with special needs that effectively translate into evidence-based school practices that improve the education of all students. This article analyses the impact of two evidence-based dialogic training programs of Special Education teachers working in mainstream schools carried out in Mexico during the 2018–2019 school year. Through in-depth interviews with participants, it was identified how, after the training, teachers increasingly grounded their actions on scientific evidence and promoted interactive learning environments that improved the educational inclusion of their students with special needs. This training also became the venue to make evidence-based educational actions available to other students without special needs, improving the quality of education provided to all students.

Impact of Occupational Instruction on the Performance and Vocational Identity of Special Education Students

1996 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Roessler ◽  
Karen Foshee
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Regular Education ◽  
Vocational Identity ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Special Education Teacher ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Barriers To Employment ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Vocational Situation

A special education teacher in a small rural high school instructed 23 students with disabilities in the occupational domain of the Life Centered Career Education curriculum. The students increased their Performance Battery scores from pre to post test, achieving both mastery on the competency tests and a skill level comparable to that of regular education students (n=15). Although the instructed students tended to report increased levels of occupational information from pre to post testing, they did not report fewer barriers to employment or increased vocational identity on the My Vocational Situation test.

scholarly journals Access and Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Virtual Learning Environments: Implications for Post-Pandemic Teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-61
Author(s):  
Susan G. Porter ◽  
Kai Greene ◽  
M. C. Kate Esposito
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Virtual Learning ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Virtual Learning Environments ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Education Students ◽  
School Closures

This article reviews the extant literature showing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to inclusive education for students with disabilities. It also explores the disproportionate impacts of distance learning and school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on the legal rights, social-emotional supports, and quality of instruction for special education students and their families. Early data show that educational impacts of COVID-19 have exacerbated long-standing issues of inequity; these impacts may have long-term repercussions for this underserved group of students. The authors introduce frameworks that may inform future instructional practices to successfully teach students with disabilities in virtual learning environments.

Washington view: How have special education students fared during the pandemic?

2021 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-63
Author(s):  
Maria Ferguson
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Recovery Plan

Maria Ferguson talks with Lindsay E. Jones, president and CEO of the National Center for Learning Disabilities, about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on students with disabilities. So far, there has been little research into the effects of the pandemic, but previous research shows that being away from school has more of an effect on students with learning disabilities. They also discuss how states are planning to use the funds made available under the American Recovery Plan and the challenge of balancing the need for flexibility to distribute funds quickly with the need to ensure that students’ needs are being met.

Kaedah E–suara Dalam Peperiksaan Murid–murid Pendidikan Khas

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohd Hanafi Mohd Yasin ◽  
Mohd Mokhtar Tahar ◽  
Lokman Tahir ◽  
Md. Amin Kasbin ◽  
Fauzi Ramli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Conventional Method ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Alternative Evaluation ◽  
Paper And Pencil ◽  
Examination Question ◽  
Better Than

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengenal pasti keberkesanan kaedah e–suara dalam membantu murid-murid pendidikan khas kategori bermasalah pembelajaran dalam menjawab soalan peperiksaan tanpa melakukan modifikasi dari segi isi kandungan atau kualiti soalan peperiksaan berkenaan. Pentaksiran alternatif yang dilakukan dalam kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan penyampaian soalan berbantukan komputer, iaitu suatu transformasi daripada pentaksiran pendekatan konvensional berbentuk paper–and–pencil. Dalam kajian ini, sebanyak 163 orang murid tingkatan 3 pendidikan khas bermasalah pembelajaran dari seluruh negara diambil sebagai sampel kajian. Sampel ini dibahagikan kepada tiga kumpulan, iaitu (1) kumpulan murid yang menjawab soalan peperiksaan dengan menggunakan kaedah konvensional; (2) kumpulan murid yang menjawab soalan peperiksaan dengan menggunakan kaedah e–suara I, iaitu melihat dan mendengar item soalan melalui komputer tetapi menjawab dengan cara biasa/konvensional; (3) kumpulan murid yang menjawab soalan peperiksaan menggunakan kaedah e–suara II, iaitu membaca dan mendengar item soalan melalui komputer dan menjawabnya dengan bantuan komputer. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tahap pencapaian subjek kajian (SK) pendidikan khas bermasalah pembelajaran yang menggunakan kaedah e–suara II lebih baik dengan skor min sebanyak 8.35 berbanding dengan dua kaedah penilaian lain. Secara keseluruhan, kajian ini membuktikan bahawa kaedah e–suara dapat membantu murid–murid pendidikan khas bermasalah pembelajaran menjawab soalan peperiksaan dengan lebih yakin berbanding dengan kaedah lain. Kata kunci: Pentaksiran; e–suara; pendidikan khas; peperiksaan; teknologi pendidikan This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of e–suara in helping special education students categorized as learning disabilities in answering examination questions without changing the content or quality of the questions. The alternative evaluation carried out in this research was computeraided which was a transformation from the conventional paper–and–pencil approach. A total of 163 special education form two students nationwide were selected as sample in the research. They were divided into three groups; (1) group of students who answered the examination questions by using the conventional method; (2) students who answered the examination questions by using the e–suara I method, that is seeing and reading and listening to the examination questions through computer but answered the questions by using the conventional method; and (3) group of students who used e–suara II method that is seeing/reading and listening to examination questions and answered using the computer. Findings show that students who answered questions using the e–suara II method performed better in the examination with min score of 8.35 compared to the other two groups. Generaly, e–suara method can help special education students to answer examination question better than the conventional method. Key words: Assessment; e–suara; special education; examination; educational technology

The Relationship Between Inclusion, Absenteeism, and Disciplinary Outcomes for Students With Disabilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 016237372096855
Author(s):  
Kaitlin P. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
General Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Disciplinary Referrals ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Inclusive Settings ◽  
The Relationship

Students with disabilities (SWDs) are more likely to be suspended or expelled than their general education peers and more likely to be chronically absent. This study uses 5 years of student-level data for all Michigan special education students to examine the relationship between educational setting, absenteeism, and disciplinary outcomes. Using within-student variation in an educational setting, I find that the degree of inclusion is associated with fewer disciplinary incidents and better attendance. However, the relationship between inclusion and disciplinary outcomes only exists for certain subgroups, and primarily for students who transitioned from more to less inclusive settings experiencing more disciplinary referrals and suspensions after these moves.

Categorical and Programming Changes in Special Education Services

1993 ◽  
Vol 59 (6) ◽  
pp. 547-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Halgren ◽  
Harvey F. Clarizio
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Special Education Services ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Parent Survey ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Record Review ◽  
Initial Classification

Special education students (N = 654) were studied to determine what proportion had a categorical or programming change and what factors (child, school, and home) were associated with change. The study included all students with disabilities from preschool through secondary school in a tricounty rural district. Data were gathered through a record review and parent survey. Change was found to be more common than is generally perceived: 38.2% of the students had a classification change (21.9% by termination and 16.3% by reclassification). Rates of change varied significantly among classifications and the student's initial classification, grade level, and comorbidity were significantly predictive of change in classification.

scholarly journals “We Kind of do not Dare to Tell Everybody that we are in a Program for Disabled Students, Because Some are Afraid that they will be Made Fun of.”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Anna Björk Sverrisdóttir ◽  
Geert Van Hove
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Special Education Students ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Disabled Students ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
The Way

Abstract Implementing inclusive education has proven problematic all over the world. The reasons are multiple, but one of them can presumably be related to the way students with disabilities are “created”, viewed, and responded to as “special education students” within schools. To challenge this, we need to understand students’ position within the school. In this article, the focus is on identifying the position of students who receive special education in schools in Iceland by mapping their power relations and resistance within the discursive norm of special education. We use the method of thinking with theory and read data in accordance with Foucault’s theories of power relations and resistance and Deleuze and Guattari’s concepts of line of flight and becoming. Findings show that power relations affect students variously and although students’ resistance is manifested differently between individuals, a common thread is visible when resisting their static position as special education students.

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