The specific learning disabilities with the primary focus on dyslexia as one of the special educational need are characterised in the thesis. The theoretical part provides thorough clarification of the individual disabilities as well as the enumeration and explanation of the re- educational approaches towards the specific learning difficulties aimed at the process of teaching English as a foreign language. The qualitative research conducted on the second stage of the basic school constitutes the empirical part of the thesis. The major aim of tracing the needs of the learners with dyslexia was achieved by combining the results of the analysis of the textbooks and the self-created worksheets, observations from the lessons and the interviews with the participants. The main research question, discussing the degree of appropriateness and suitability of the created material in opposition to the regularly used textbooks, was answered in favour of the designed worksheets. Moreover, the thesis provides well-structured and comprehensive summary of the recommendations to enhance the learning process of the learners with dyslexia. Key words Dyslexia, foreign language teaching, lower secondary level, re-education, special educational needs, specific learning disabilities

This diploma thesis is divided into a theoretical and practical part. In the theoretical part, the author derives from the historical findings of Educational Counselling Facilities in the Czech Educational system. Furthermore, she focuses on the definition of Educational Counselling Facilities before the introduction of the new concept of Individual Integration in 2016, including the working methods of school guidance counsellor. The author defines the terms of Individual Integration in detail and deals with the amendment and its consequences in the work of school guidance counsellors and teachers. The practical part includes an empirical research based on semi-structured interviews with school guidance counsellors. The author summarizes the findings of her questionnaire survey carried on among schoolteachers. In the final part, the author specifies the changes in the working methods of school guidance counsellors after the implementation of the new concept of Individual Integration starting from 1st September 2016. The author also clarifies the impact of the Individual Integration concept on the everyday responsibilities of the teachers and the educational facilities from their point of view.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:33:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Clementina Terezinha de Jesus Monfardini.pdf: 473375 bytes, checksum: edf40dae3e17e45d8d6b100d774675a3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-10-29 / This Masters Thesis is inscribed under the research approach named: University and preparation of teachers for Elementary and Middle school levels. Analyzing two state elementary schools 1st to 4th grades) in the state of So Paulo, this project discusses the challenges and dilemmas set before the preparation of educators, considering the complexity of the educational context, where various assessment strategies often result in the production of failure, as seen in signs of exclusion and discrimination, both in special education, and in regular education. While focusing on strategies and mechanisms schools use to move children from regular education to special education, and vice-versa, we are able to perceive how discrimination grows, leading to failure in school. This issue underlines the need to promote teacher training in a mode that avoids classification, selection and discrimination processes of children who are mostly from underprivileged classes. In the case of the schools we studied, such crystallized processes are evident in the sending of students to the SAPEs (Specialized pedagogical support services), a governmental program. Throughout the ten months we followed the assessment procedures, we were able to show that decisions about sending special classes and resource classes are defined beforrehand, by the school team or health care specialists. This investigation indicates that teacher preparation is one of the major pathways for meaningful change of this landscape that along with changes in working conditions, teacher salaries and higher value for teaching as a career choice. / A presente disserta??o insere-se na linha de pesquisa "Universidade e Forma??o de Professores para o Ensino Fundamental e M?dio". Objetiva analisar, por meio do estudo de duas unidades escolares de 1a a 4a s?ries da rede estadual de ensino do Estado de S?o Paulo, os desafios e dilemas postos para a forma??o dos educadores, em fun??o da complexidade dos contextos escolares. O foco recai principalmente sobre as formas de avalia??o que, muitas vezes, resultam na produ??o do fracasso escolar, expresso em suas marcas excludentes e discriminadoras, tanto para a Educa??o Especial como para o Ensino Regular. Ao atentarmos para as estrat?gias e mecanismos utilizados pela escola, quando se colocam "crian?as em tr?nsito" do Ensino Regular para a Educa??o Especial e vice-versa, percebemos a reprodu??o de formas de discrimina??o, j? mencionada, configurando a produ??o do fracasso escolar. Esta problem?tica aponta para a necessidade de se promover uma forma??o docente que rompa com os processos de classifica??o, sele??o e discrimina??o de crian?as, em sua maioria, origin?rias das camadas populares. No caso dessas escolas, esses processos perpassam, inclusive, pelos procedimentos estratificados de encaminhamento dos alunos para os Servi?os de Apoio Pedag?gico Especializado (classes especiais e salas de recursos) SAPEs criados pelo poder p?blico. No decorrer de dez meses de acompanhamento dos mecanismos de avalia??o, evidenciou-se que as decis?es sobre o encaminhamento dos educandos para a classe especial e sala de recursos s?o definidas a priori pela pr?pria equipe escolar ou pelos especialistas da ?rea de sa?de. Esta investiga??o vislumbra a forma??o de professores como uma das vias mais importantes para altera??es significativas desse quadro, aliada ?s mudan?as na condi??o de trabalho e de sal?rio do educador e na valoriza??o da carreira do magist?rio.

The purpose of this master thesis is to investigate the role of special education teacher at elementary school in the present condition. It's concerned especially with the position at school, with the activities and methods of the work and with the professional relationships. The theoretical part focuses on the development of the special education and mainly on the contemporaray special arrangements. This master thesis describes the groups of pupils who need the arrangement from the school and other school institutions. The text shows the charakteristics of individual eduactional plans and of school consultancy services, including the special education teacher and the particular aspects of this profession, based on scientific literature. The empirical part is based on the mixed research. It schows the examples of the practice, the issue is the analysis of five interviews with special education teachers from the basic schools. These interviews illustrative the current role and activities of this profession. Subsequently I analyse data of the questionnaire of forty respondents, directors of basic schools, who described their experience with special school teachers. The master thesis tries to show the objective point of view of the special education teacher at basic schools. The present text can be...

The purpose of this diploma thesis is to investigate the advisory role of an elementary school special education teacher. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the activities and methods of the teacher's work, his position at school and his cooperation with other entities in supporting pupils with special education needs. The special activities are described in favour of pupils, groups of pupils and teachers. The purpose of this thesis is also to describe the development of the special education discipline, documentation and ethical aspects of this profession. The practical part is focused in the form of qualitative research on the Prague elementary school teacher's view of the special education teacher. The core of the research consists of analysis of five interviews with teachers at Prague school. Subsequently, the importance of the individual work in the form of intervention and therapeutic to be evaluated on basis of five case reports.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T14:32:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 solange.pdf: 2775683 bytes, checksum: 46071894d9093e9a49db563b8828e03d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-13 / The present study is related to the current issues concerning the process of inclusion of students who have special educational needs in regular education. It aims at understanding how such students have been included in state public schools in Ensino Fundamental Ciclo I, Ciclo II and Ensino Médio , and how regular schools and their professionals have responded to the students needs. The research is focused on public schools, their differences in hierarchy and respective management, as well as on teachers continuing education process regarding inclusion. In order to reach those goals and understand the present situation, it is necessary to look back in the past through book and document references, searching for historical data that have followed the process regarding public policies. Besides, the field research helps make a triangulation to support that complex subject. The collected results view some kind of educational scene that points out significant advances and possibilities in inclusion. They also show good willing educational professionals who have effectively committed to the inclusion of students who have special educational needs. On the other hand, there are still some issues that must be considered regarding the uniqueness of different educational realities / O presente estudo se relaciona às questões postas na atualidade em relação ao processo de inclusão de alunos com necessidades educacionais especiais na rede regular de ensino. Tem como objetivo compreender como esse processo vem de fato acontecendo na Rede Estadual de Ensino no Ensino Fundamental Ciclo I, Ciclo II e Ensino Médio, e como a escola regular e seus profissionais têm encontrado alternativas para atender à demanda desses alunos. O foco da pesquisa é a instituição escolar pública, observando suas diferentes instâncias hierárquicas e respectivas gestões, como também os processos de formação continuada de professores no que tange a essas questões. Para tanto, faz-se necessário uma incursão no passado através da pesquisa bibliográfica para compreender o presente, utilizam-se recursos na modalidade da pesquisa documental, buscando historicamente os dados que acompanham esse processo em relação às políticas públicas da atualidade e caminha-se também na modalidade da pesquisa de campo de modo a buscar uma triangulação que possa sustentar a complexidade dessa temática. Os resultados obtidos representam uma determinada realidade educacional que imprime marcas significativas nos avanços e possibilidades desse processo, e retrata igualmente a predisposição de profissionais da educação que efetivamente se comprometeram com o processo de inclusão de alunos com necessidades educacionais especiais. Ao mesmo tempo, ressignifica tal processo, inferindo imperativos que deverão ser repensados e construídos a partir da singularidade das diferentes realidades educacionais

The diploma thesis focuses on the role of teacher assistant in the nursery class. Its aim is to capture the activities that the assistant teacher performs in this class through qualitative research. The main aim of the research was to describe the activities of the teacher assistant that support pupils directly in the logopedic class of the kindergarten. The research was carried out at the nursery class of the kindergarten. The case studies of five pupils were processed on the basis of documentary analysis and observation and teacher assistant activities were categorized. It has been found that pupils has disruptive communication skills that has been shown since the beginning of development and, besides communication skills, involves in other areas of development. Teacher assistant pays attention to all pupils in the class. Activities that encourage them to engage in education and all kindergarten activities do not differ in content. His work focuses mainly on ensuring understanding, orientation and involvement of pupils in every situation. KEYWORDS Teacher Assistant, Pupil with Special Educational Needs, Speech and Language Disorders, Nursery School, Class for children with speech and language disorders, Special Education

The Diploma Thesis represents teachers' approach to the inclusion, and the inclusive education in a common primary school. The theoretical part provides information about the basic legislation in the field of inclusion, and explains terms such as integration, inclusion, inclusive education. It focuses on the supportive arrangements for pupils with special educational needs, and analyses specifics of inclusive settings in the concrete school. The practical part describes the research. The aim of the research was to point out the teachers' attitude towards the inclusion and to evaluate their experience with the inclusive settings at the concrete school. The research reveals positive as well as negative opinions. It also summarises difficulties regarding the inclusive education. The research points out that there is slightly more of a negative attitude among the teachers towards the inclusion, however more than half of the teachers feel the importance of inclusion regarding pupils with specific educational needs. For further development of inclusion, the teachers would appreciate a reduction of students in their working groups, as well as an increase number of teacher assistants. Furthermore, the teachers expressed a wish for a better supportive methodical help while working with students within this...

For a long time, inclusion or inclusive education (IE) has been high on the agenda both internationally and in Sweden, not least since the signing of the Salamanca Declaration in 1994 and the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2006. These call for inclusion to be the norm and are guided by the principle that all pupils, regardless of needs, feel that their social, emotional and academic needs are being met. Since the introduction of Lgr11 (2011), the most recent Swedish curriculum, special educational needs (SEN) should be seen as arising out of educational environments and methods that are not adapted enough to be accessible to a wide diversity of pupils. Despite a significant body of research into inclusive education, several researchers raised that few studies focused on the pupil perspective, few were collaborative and few focused on all pupils, that is to say, their focus lies only on pupils with SEN. Arguably, selecting certain groups to investigate goes against the ethos of inclusion and risks missing information from pupils experiencing difficulties that are not yet identified.  When considering factors impacting feelings of inclusion, many studies have raised the importance of socio-emotional functioning alongside academic self-concept. This collaborative study looks at how included pupils in a free school in Stockholm feel, with a focus on whether there is a difference between the pupils’ perception of inclusion depending on whether they have self-reported SEN or not, what grade they are in and their gender. This is measured using a new instrument, the ‘Perception of Inclusion Questionnaire (PIQ) - student version’, which is also being validated as a tool for measuring inclusion in Sweden. Results indicate clearly that pupils with SEN feel significantly less included than their typically-developing peers across all three scales, emotional inclusion, social inclusion and academic self-concept. In addition, grade has an impact, with pupils in Grade 8 having lower feelings of emotional inclusion, social inclusion and academic self-concept than in Grade 5. This difference was apparent for all pupils but the effect was greater in pupils with SEN. Gender returned insignificant results on all three scales. Another interesting result is that more pupils self-report actual or suspected SEN than the school reports, indicating that there are a number of pupils with difficulties who would be overlooked in studies that do not include all pupils. The Swedish version of the PIQ for Students has been validated.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how high school students felt that the computer helped or hindered participation and self-esteem in the learning situation and if the students experienced any differences between when they had been relatively alone in using a computer compared to when everyone had their own computer. The starting point was the national one-to-one projects made to give every student access to a personal computer and how it affected students in special educational needs and previous research. The theoretical approach was based on socioculture/activity theory and theories of self-esteem. Ten high school students in grade one at a senior high school that previously had started up a one-to-one project was interviewed. The results showed that the students primarily used the computer to write and to search the Internet, but even as a alternative or compensatory tool. Students felt that the computer contributed to increased motivation and self-esteem and better results both in secondary and senior high school. Several students stressed the teacher's importance for if and how the computer was used as a learning tool. The main difference between the computer utilization was seen between the high school programs. Students in the individual program felt the education more individualized and customized compared to secondary school, while students in the vocational program used the computer less as a special education tool than in secondary school. Therefore, any conclusion re-garding one-to-one and its impact could not be drawn. / Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur gymnasieelever upplevde att datorn bidrog till eller hindrade delaktighet och självkänsla i lärsituationen samt om eleverna upplevde någon skillnad mellan då de var relativt ensamma om att ha en egen dator jämfört med då alla elever hade en egen dator. Utgångspunkten var de nationella en-till-en-satsningar som gjorts för att ge varje elev tillgång till en egen dator och på vilket sätt det påverkade elever i behov av särskilt stöd samt tidigare forskning. Den teoretiska ansatsen grundade sig i sociokulturell teori/verksamhetsteori och teorier om självbild. Tio gymnasieelever i årskurs 1 på en gymnasieskola som precis startat upp en en-till-en-satsning intervjuades. Resultatet visade att eleverna i första hand använde datorn till att skriva och till informationssökning i skolan, men även som alternativt eller kompenserande lärverktyg. Eleverna upplevde att datorn bidrog till ökad motivation och självkänsla samt bättre resultat i skolarbetet både i grundskolan och på gymnasiet. Flera elever framhöll lärarens betydelse för om och hur datorn nyttjades som lärverktyg. Den största skillnaden mellan hur datorn nyttjades kunde man se mellan gymnasieprogrammen. Eleverna på det individuella programmet upplevde att de fick mer individualiserad och datoranpassad undervisning jämfört med i grundskolan, medan eleverna på det yrkesförberedande programmet använde datorn som specialpedagogisk verktyg mer sällan jämfört med i grundskolan. Någon slutsats angående en-till-en och dess påverkan kunde därför inte dras.