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Questioning confidence in integrated classes
Researcher to examine how teachers feel about their ability to teach students with special needs in regular classrooms. By Antonia Maiolo.
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It is difficult to teach integrated classes that have a number of special needs students in them. Having worked in two schools now where 10% of the school population are special needs (and 30-40% learning support), I have found the needs of these students are often not being met fully and comprehensively. Often the problem is funding for sufficient teachers to cover these students needs, something which the present State and Federal governments have no notion of. Confidence is not the problem, but burnout is.