Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.32633/eb.4.6
Educational strategies and active learning in one-teacher-education with an autistic student on the example of a natural science topic (a case study)
Darinka Kiš-Novak
orcid.org/0000-0002-1690-8043
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb
Anita Špehar
; Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb
Abstract
Working with students with special needs, primarily working with autistic students is very demanding and requires special preparation and education of teachers (and teaching assistants). Educational strategies are teaching and learning, strategy of experiencing and of expressing experienced things, strategy of practicing (exercising, training), and the strategy of creating. Various procedures can be used in active teaching. The research is based on the strategy of educating students with autism by means of concrete examples using the ABA method. The results of the research conducted with the autistic student show that the learner has successfully mastered four concepts in two school hours thanks to active learning with an individualized and adapted syllabus (programme). Although for this research study the amount of the teaching content that can be acquired in one or two school periods is not essential, but rather to prove that a learner with autism will master the teaching content more effectively with active learning. The student has responded well to concrete examples of fruit (apple, pear, banana, avocado, pomegranate, melon, lemon), showing signs of joy and interest while in traditional teaching and learning (by means of photography) he has not paid such attention to fruit or given any signs of joy. Already during the assessment of teaching and learning, he has showed signs of tiredness and disinterest. With encouragement and stimulation, the assessment has been made. This work is also a case analysis over a given period, namely a case study or case analysis.
Keywords
active learning; natural science; educational strategies; a case study; a student with autism
Hrčak ID:
216499
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2018.
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