The Needs of Functional Academic Teaching Materials for Special Education Teachers With Visual Impairment
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.200814.013How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- functional academic, teaching materials, teacher, students with visual impairment
- Abstract
Functional academic learning is crucial for students with visual impairment, since it is a basis for problem solving in life. This learning aims to increase students’ independence in daily life. The purpose of this study was to determine the needs of functional academic teaching materials for special teachers of students with visual impairment. The research implemented descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of this study were teachers at one of SLB for the students with visual impairment in Yogyakarta. Data collection was conducted in this study by using observation, interview, and documentation techniques. The data was analyzed by using qualitative descriptive analysis techniques. The results of the study showed that the special teachers of students with visual impairment require functional academic teaching materials that are more organized and systematic based on the learning stages with the syntax of contextual learning models. Good teaching materials should have brief, communicative, solid, and systematic language use. The scope of the content contained in teaching material should be suitable with the students’ conditions as the learning subjects.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Sayidatul Maslahah AU - Mumpuniarti Mumpuniarti AU - Ishartiwi Ishartiwi PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/14 TI - The Needs of Functional Academic Teaching Materials for Special Education Teachers With Visual Impairment BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Seminar on Guidance and Counseling 2019 (ISGC 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 59 EP - 63 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200814.013 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200814.013 ID - Maslahah2020 ER -