Teacher’s training refers to training in the form of lectures, discussion, and hands-on exposure imparted by experts/specialists in the field of specific learning disorder aimed at improving knowledge level, positive attitude, and realistic understanding of general education teachers, special education teachers, or teacher educators.
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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practices of Primary and Secondary School Teachers on Specific Learning Disorder
Nandini Jayachandran (Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences, India), Mary Iype (Government Medical College Trivandrum, India), Poovathinal Azhakan Suresh (Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences, India), and Divya Vinod (Institute for Communicative and Cognitive Neurosciences, India)
Copyright: © 2018
|Pages: 33
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4955-0.ch004
Abstract
Early identification of Specific Learning Disorder (SLD) is essential not only for effective remediation of their problems but would also prevent the problems from aggravating. The role of general education teachers in early identification becomes crucial, as they are the ones who first identify the academic and behavioral issues of school children. The main aims of the study are to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and current practices pertaining to SLD, among pre-primary, primary, and secondary school teachers in public schools from Trivandrum, India, to find whether there exists any relation between years of teaching experience and awareness on SLD and to assess the effect of a short-term training program on the knowledge, attitude, and practices of school teachers. In conclusion, short-term training programs of a multi-disciplinary nature are found to be effective in bringing about improvements with both pre-primary and primary teacher's knowledge factor, but such training is maximally beneficial for improving attitude and practice of teachers in the primary level.