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Teachers development and training Problem Statement
Teachers development and training Administrators should be involved in the development and training sessions that prepare educators to be able to take care of the needs of students with disabilities and provide them equal student rights. They should strive to come up with ways to improve the overall school performance of students, and use opportunities to build relationships between teachers and students with disabilities. There should be a willingness to be part of change and make adjustments that will lead to better performance. Additionally, there should be the availability of technology that supports the students with special needs to overcome the challenges they face, leading to poor performance.
The problem is lack of trained and skilled teachers to handle the students with disabilities, lack of technology devices to facilitate learning, and lack of professional development to provide teachers and administration on better ways to handle students with disabilities. According to the scholarly articles, the problems of financial costs were experienced by the institutions, this made it difficult for the institution to provide a better training session to their staff members, the training session is said to be more expensive than many institutions could afford, and if they could afford to pay for the session then it could only be done once in a year. Lastly, financial issues lead institutions not to hire qualified and advanced teachers because they require a high salary that they could not afford. (Simpson, 2017). Teachers development and training
When the institutions are experiencing unstable finances, they face several problems compared to those in a stable state. Students who require special needs care are seen to be more affected hence a need to implement a solution to safeguard the education that is meant to model them to be better people in society despite their disabilities. A solution that needs to be implemented to resolve the problem faced in an institution that takes care of students with disabilities is to seek financial assists from a financial institution that is concerned with education; and use the finances to develop better facilities, and purchase the technology devices needed for their learning activities.
Other current studies about the problem include research done by Newman et al.,2020 Aguirre et al., 2020 and a research done by Cheng and Lai. These researchers recommend further research concerning the problem that is extensively discussed in step two of the template which specifically deals with the different ways in which a teacher can be trained to facilitate the teaching of students with disabilities.
Purpose Statement
The purpose of the qualitative study is to perform research on the problem of limited support in education curriculum for children living with disabilities. It will include proving that students receive limited support, explaining why the support is limited, and providing possible fixes for the problem. There have been issues related to lack of trained teachers and technology that creates better environment for learning. Use of surveys is the applicable study method to generate insight into the current curriculum and how it provides development for students. It is common to encounter problems when the curriculum does not get structured to handle educational improvement for students. Special education requires technology use to facilitate differentiation learning and flexibility (Dikusar, 2018). In this way, it would be easy to encourage students and to track their progress.
Descriptive design would get applied as the study design since it adopts the use of variables to generate insight into the research process (Ranganathan & Aggarwal, 2018). It would be easy to facilitate learning once teachers receive technical assistance and are able to provide services suitable to their students’ needs. The independent variable is ability of special needs students to gain educational improvement while the dependent variable is the need to improve on technological adaptations. The target population is children in high school and those living with physical and learning disabilities. Solution of issues like lack of enough technology for the school with special needs students will hinder the school staff from learning the federal guidance put by the society (Dikusar 2018).
After application of the study method, it would be easy to generate reliable techniques of handling support for students based on the ability to implement programs aimed at educational improvement. Issues like lack of trained teachers is detrimental and requires training handled early for proper learning environment (Mader, 2017). Application of sample size determination and hypothesis testing are suitable techniques of handling the educational improvement for students (Dillard, 2018). In these ways, the qualitative study would generate better learning. Teachers development and training
Research Questions
- What is the impact of requiring teachers to attend training on the performance of students with disabilities?
- What effect does the support on educational curriculum have on the performance of students with disabilities?
- How would the use of technology assist students with disabilities in improving their academic performance?
Hypothesis
Null hypothesis: Training teachers has a beneficial impact on the performance of the students with disabilities.
Alternative hypothesis: Training teachers has no beneficial influence on the students with disabilities
Null hypothesis: Support on the educational curriculum has a positive impact on the performance of students with disabilities.
Alternative hypothesis: Support on the educational curriculum has no positive impact on the performance of students with disabilities.
Null hypothesis: Technology would help students with disabilities to improve their learning ability.
Alternative hypothesis: Technology would not help students with disabilities to improve their learning ability.
The highlighted research questions and hypothesis are about the education aspects of the students with disabilities. The discussion is more about how training of the teachers would have an impact on the academic performance of the students. The other research questions elaborate how the support of the curriculum through offering necessary resources that include the technology in the education would impact the academic performance. The research questions are measurable in terms of the academic performance of the students before training and after offering the training services. It is also distinct in the fact that the introduction of technology would have an impact on the students learning ability and this matters in terms of equity in the education sector.
References
Aguirre, A., Carballo, R., & Lopez-Gavira, R. (2020). Improving the academic experience of students with disabilities in higher education: faculty members of Social Sciences and Law speak out. Innovation: The European Journal Of Social Science Research, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/13511610.2020.1828047
Cheng, SC., Lai, CL. Facilitating learning for students with special needs: a review of technology-supported special education studies. J. Comput. Educ. 7, 131–153 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-019-00150-8
Newman, L. A., Madaus, J. W., Lalor, A. R., & Javitz, H. S. (2020). Effect of accessing supports on higher education persistence of students with disabilities. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000170
Postholm, M. (2018). Teachers’ professional development in school: A review study. Cogent Education, 5(1), 1522781. doi: 10.1080/2331186x.2018.1522781
Simpson, R. (2017). Inclusion of Students with Behavior Disorders in General Education Settings: Research and Measurement Issues. Behavioral Disorders, 30(1), 19-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/019874290403000104
Dikusar, A. (2018) The Use of Technology in Special Education Retrieved on 27th June 2021 from https://elearningindustry.com/use-of-technology-in-special-education
David F. Bateman and Jenifer L. Cline (2016) Special Education and the Laws That Affect It Retrieved on 27th June 2021 from http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/116019/chapters/Special-Education-and-the-Laws-That-Affect-It.aspx
Dillard, J. (2018). 5 Most Important Methods For Statistical Data Analysis. Retrieved 25 June 2021 from https://www.bigskyassociates.com/blog/bid/356764/5-Most-Important-Methods-For-Statistical-Data-Analysis.
Hayes, A. (2020). Stratified Random Sampling. Retrieved 25 June 2021 from https://www.investopedia.com/terms/stratified_random_sampling.asp.
Ranganathan, P., & Aggarwal, R. (2018). Study designs: Part 1 – An overview and classification. Perspectives in clinical research, 9(4), 184186. https://doi.org/10.4103/picr.PICR_124_18.