SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS’ OPINIONS ABOUT ACTIVE LEARNING ACTIVITIES USING TO EDUCATE MENTALLY DISABLED STUDENTS
ZİHİNSEL ENGELLİ ÖĞRENCİLERİN EĞİTMEDE KULLANILAN AKTİF ÖĞRENME AKTİVİTELERİNE İLİŞKİN ÖZEL EĞİTİM ÖĞRETMENLERİNİN DÜŞÜNCELERİ

Author : Zehra Nur ERSÖZLÜ -- Gülay BEDİR - Ayşegül ALTUN
Number of pages : 1195-1216

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine teachers’ opinion about active learning activities in special education schools which educate students who have mentally disabled. Within this general framework, the special education teachers’ knowledge about active learning concept and personal preferences to apply active learning activities in classroom and, the problems that they faced were investigated. The study group consisted of eight special education teachers who worked at Osman Yildirim Work School in Amasya, Turkey. The semi-structured interviews were used to collect data. Teacher’ responds were recorded by tape recorder during the interviews and were reported by giving a kod number for each teachers. When the interview results were analyzed and reported all conversation was reported without correcting all sentences that the teachers spoke during the interviews. Descriptive tecniques were used to analyze the interview data. According to results of this study revealed that most of the special education teachers heard about active learning concept first time and they had little knowledge about it. Some of teachers explained the active learning concept just as students’ active attandence during the course activities. Besides, teachers stated that they had to teach their courses in

Keywords

Special education, mentally disabled student, student activities, special education teach

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