- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Needs perceived by regular secondary teachers in working with handicapped students in the mainstream, 2003
- Creator:
- McCamey, Jimmy D.
- Date of Original:
- 2003-07-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to identify from a selected group of regular secondary teachers in the Atlanta Public Schools the skills they perceived as required to work effectively with handicapped students mainstreamed into their classes. Findings As a result of the study, the following findings were revealed: 1. Subjects perceived the need for training and/or programs that will orientate them to the characteristics of handicapped students to be a need in helping them to do an effective job in working with those handicapped students mainstreamed into their classes. 2. Subjects perceived instructing techniques to be a need in helping them to work effectively with handicapped students. 3. Subjects perceived classroom management to be a need in working with mildly handicapped students. 4. Subjects perceived understanding of language development, fine and gross motor skills of students as well as being able to program instruction in a variety of ways to be needs in working with handicapped students that are mainstreamed. 5. Subjects perceived self help and social skills to be a skill that teachers should be able to perform in order to do an effective job in working with handicapped students mainstreamed into their classes. 6. Subjects perceived being able to evaluate students as a need of regular secondary teachers in working effectively with handicapped students mainstreamed into their classes. 7. Subjects perceived knowing how to work with and help parents to understand their children who are handicapped to be a need in doing an effective job in a mainstream program. Conclusions The following conclusions were drawn from this study: 1. Regular secondary classroom teachers need help in understanding the nature, behavior, and characteristics of handicapping conditions; 2. Regular secondary teachers need to be trained in how to teach handicapped students and how to control and manage their behavior; 3. Regular secondary teachers felt that they need training in the following areas in order to do a more effective job in teaching handicapped students: instructional techniques, task analysis, curriculum planning, language, gross and fine motor development, record keeping, parental involvement and behavior modifications. Implications As a result of the findings and conclusions, the following implications were drawn: 1. Administrators and school officials should look at in-service preparation for its teachers as it relates to mainstreaming handicapped students or providing the least restrictive setting for all students; 2. Regular classroom teachers should be given time to observe and work with special educators in acquiring methods and techniques for working with the mildly handicapped; 3. School systems should make available to parents and teachers seminars and workshops that help them understand the nature and characteristics of individual differences. Recommendations The summary, findings, conclusions, and implications gave bases for the following recommendations: 1. Inservice work sessions should be conducted to aid parents and teachers in working with and understanding the handicapped student. 2. On-the-job training should be provided for regular classroom teachers. 3. Material centers containing resources applicable to handicapped students should be made available. 4. Extended planning time should be considered for those regular educators who have handicapped students mainstreamed into their classes. 5. Modifications should be made in class size, scheduling and curriculum design to accomodate the shifting demands that mainstreaming creates.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2003_mccamey_jimmy_d
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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