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TRAINNING OF SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS ABOUT CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT - IZOBRAZBA EDUKACIJSKIH REHABILITATORA O RAZVOJU KURIKULUMA
Deniz Ozcan
orcid.org/0000-0001-5495-8036
; Faculty of Education, Near East University, North Cyprus, Turkey
Huseyin Uzunboylu
orcid.org/0000-0003-3222-6808
; Faculty of Education, Near East University, North Cyprus, Turkey
Abstract
The aim of this study is to determine the needs of special education
teachers about curriculum development, and to implement the constructivist approach to in-service training programme for special education teachers. Furthermore, this study seeks to evaluate the developed in-service training programme. The descriptive and experimental methods were applied in this study. The sample consists of 84 special education teachers that have completed the needs analyses questionnaires that has provided the basis for the development of the in-service training programme. An experimental design has been used in the second stage of the study. The experimental group of the study consists of 31 special education teachers. The implementation of the in-service training programme has taken 36 hours over a 6 months period. According to the results of the study, special education teachers need a higher level of training for curriculum development. Also, there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the achievement test.
Moreover, teachers have declared that the programme is beneficial and also that their knowledge levels about curriculum development have increased.
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Cilj istraživanja je utvrditi potrebe edukacijskih rehabilitatora iz
područja razvoja kurikuluma i implementirati konstruktivistički pristup programima izobrazbe edukacijskih rehabilitatora. Ovo istraživanje pokušalo je ocijeniti uspješnost razvijenog programa izobrazbe za edukacijske rehabilitatore. Deskriptivna i eksperimentalna metoda korištene su tijekom istraživanja. Uzorak čine 84 edukacijska rehabilitatora koji su popunili upitnik procjene potreba, koji je bio osnova za izradu programa izobrazbe. Eksperimentalan pristup koristio se u drugom dijelu istraživanja Eksperimentalnu grupu ispitanika činila su 31 edukacijska rehabilitatora. Implementacija programa izobrazbe trajala je 36 sati tijekom perioda od 6 mjeseci. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju na potrebu za višom razinom izobrazbe iz područja razvoja kurikuluma. Utvrđena je i značajna razlika u pre-test i post-test rezultatima testa uspjeha. Edukacijski rehabilitatori izjavili su da im je program koristan i da je se njihovo znanje o razvoju kurikuluma poboljšalo.
Keywords
Curriculum Development; Constructivism; In-service Training; Special Education Teachers; Experimental
Hrčak ID:
156696
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2015.
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