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04 Dec 2023 09:21

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Requirement of Teachers for Special Education

Dec 3rd being the International Day for people with disabilities, I thought this thread may give some insights for common men to give support to them. For that one may do B.Ed. in Special Education and teach in the schools as special educators. Many universities are offering this course.

There are some avenues people may choose to teach them honorarily and now with the advent of online classes people are teaching subjects online except science which may need additional support of practical classes for which only they may have to visit the host institution.

Members may share additional inputs and experiences too if any.

#775966

04 Dec 2023 10:27

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We have an NGO of which my daughter-in-law is a member. That NGO serves physically challenged students in their education. We record lessons, question papers and answers to questions and those audios will be sent to blind students who can't read by seeing. They hear these videos. We will accompany them to examination centers to write examinations on their behalf. We read the questions to them, and their answers will be written. Some of my family members and some friends help her with these services.

One of my sisters is deaf and dumb. There are special schools for such children and my sister studied in one such school and completed her 10th class and she got a government job in Andhra Pradesh as a junior clerk.

I feel we all should help such physically challenged students and see that they will be successful in their education and get good jobs.

drrao
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#775967

04 Dec 2023 10:30

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Considering the large population of our country, there is an urgent necessity of spreading education among the disadvantaged classes. If we look around, we can observe that there are the concentrations of poor families who are doing the varieties of jobs for their survival and their kids even support the families with their engagements in the hotels, restaurants and other petty jobs leaving their primary activities ie education. In fact, their parents never motivate their kids to attend schools.
If the youths are interested to a degree of B.Ed through the distance education in their leisure hours and come forward to help the disadvantaged groups, it would help the disadvantaged students a lot in making them educated. The youths, in turn, would be benefited with the experience which will be helpful to them to get a promising job in their future.

#775969

04 Dec 2023 16:25

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Thanks @Dr.Rao and Jha for your inputs. I raised on the basis of my experience with the audio, video, scanning and whatever possibilities to reach them and thanks to technology like zoom, meet, facetime for apple and sometimes vis wa too.

Even at the time of examination help may be given in the form of scribe.

shasthranaam Ganitham moordhanisthitham

#776073

17 Dec 2023 07:23

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Today many people are engaged in educating disabled persons and most if them are doing it in NGO or charitable organisation category.
There are a good number of people in our country who are one way or other disabled and cannot get education and learning through the normal channel. For them government has also devised many schemes and many facilities but there is still a gap in between and more efforts are required.
Thinking from that angle the selfless help provided by some good citizens in this matter is really commendable and wherever possible we should also contribute in this area through our free support.

Knowledge is power.

#776075

17 Dec 2023 10:16

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These days there are special training courses designed for candidates who want to teach specially challenged students. For deaf students, the teachers use a language by signs using both hands. In the same special skills are being taught to teachers who want to teach blind students.

drrao
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#776081

17 Dec 2023 18:49

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It is essential to train the teachers for special education. Many teachers are doing B.Ed. in special education where they are trained to teach disabled students. The Govt. has also started to train the Govt teachers for the same. It is not an easy task and you have to be dedicated to do this work.

Honesty is the best policy.

#776097

19 Dec 2023 19:31

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The teachers must be trained to teach the disadvantaged students suffering from some ailments such as being deaf or dumb but are interested to acquire education with the latest technology available to them for raising their efficiencies.
For the general students, they can have their education in the most of the schools known for the quality education. However, in our Indian System, we lack the appropriate schools for the disadvantaged students.
The plan needs to be upgraded so that enough teachers are trained to take care of the needs of these students and the same can be done with the appropriate training to the teachers for the students unable to see or speak. Hope, this aspect should be taken care of by the connected officials.

#776101

20 Dec 2023 10:57

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In this connection, I would like to mention that candidates opting to do a B.Ed in special education must be made to undergo a screening test in which their attitude and aptitude must be put to test so as to ascertain their suitability for a job as teachers for special students. As Hakimuddin has rightly said, it is not an easy job and requires lot of patience and dedication.

'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all'.
-Aristotle

#776105

20 Dec 2023 14:16

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I feel happy to see the responses to this thread. i feel members may even share as every member represent ddifferent states which university/college is offering this course in their states. To start with in TN TNOU is offering.

shasthranaam Ganitham moordhanisthitham

#776141

22 Dec 2023 20:05

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The author dragged a good point. Taking special care for special children is need of the hour. A School organizer Ms.poornima subramanian got special name for that.

#776191

26 Dec 2023 09:44

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In the context of education for children with disabilities, we have miles to go in breaking the barriers to get them inclusive into the mainstream. The education of children with disabilities began long back in our country while we were under British rule with formal schooling for children who are disabled physically and intellectually in 1918. After independence, this type of segregated setup continued and numerous special schools for children with various disabilities have been streamlined.

In the 1970s, The Ministry of Welfare, Government of India initiated Integrated Education of Disabled Children to include children with minimal disability in the regular schooling system. Despite various schemes enacted by both the central and state governments to promote this integrated schooling system, the success percentage was achieved only to a small extent. To promote education among children with disabilities, the government passed the Persons with Disabilities Act in 1996 to provide equal opportunities and full participation of children with special needs. Though these measures have been adopted by the government, the lack of adequately trained teachers is a big challenge. Inadequate resources or infrastructure specially designed for them in schools is an added factor. One more point, I would like to add is that the teachers must be paid adequately. Unless these issues are resolved this would be a standstill strategy.

Requirement of Teachers for Special Education

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