ARTIKEL 2

Disediakan Oleh:

Norizan Abdul Ghani, Zahidah Anisah Mohamad and Che Wan Takwa Che Wan Abu Bakar

Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia

https://docs.google.com/a/siswa.upsi.edu.my/file/d/0B93f2gQbQ0SqYmNvTVh4bXhNeWc/edit

Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences, 7(3): 284-291, 2013

ISSN 1995-0772

Teachers’ Challenges in Educating Special Children in Special Classes of Three Selected Primary Schools, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia

Abstrak

In Malaysia, special classesfor special children have been implemented ever since their first establishment in the 80's. These special classes were introduced in order to overcome the 3M difficulties namely reading, writing and calculating among primary school students, particularly those in the firstgrade. This study was conducted in three selected primary schools in Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia. Qualitative methodology was used and data were obtained through observations and interviews. Respondents consisted of 12 people; special-class teachers,school administrative officers and representative of each officer from the special children unit in the Department of Education, Terengganu. Findings showed that there are students who suffer dyslexia placed in special educational classes. Such a scenario made the teachers involved with these classes to experience challenges. The main challenges that they are facing include no in-depth exposure given to the teachers, emotionally stressed, burden with other workloads, and limited time to teach. Other challenges are limited allocation of funds; teachers show no interest in teaching, inadequate teaching materials, bullies and no recognition given by any party. It is crucial for the authorities to give extra attention not only to the special needs children, but also to the teachers teaching special remedial classes. This is parallel with the national education policy – improving the educational standard for children with special needs.

Ulasan

This article is about Teachers’ Challenges in Educating Special Children in Special Classes of Three Selected Primary Schools, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia by Norizan Abdul Ghani, Zahidah Anisah Mohamad and Che Wan Takwa Che Wan Abu Bakar.

This research gives a lot of useful information to the readers. It is clear and readers can understand the contents easily. From the article, we can see that there are a lot of problems facing by the special education teachers. They are facing those problems for quite a long time. Nobody take action for it. I think this article should gain more attention from KPM. Special need children should not get abandoned. They can help our nation in the future too. However, in order to help them, teachers’ problems must settle. If teacher are facing so much of burden, they are surely not able to teach well. More problems will come and the children might become the victims.

This research is a qualitative research. The researchers only do it in a small area. So, I think that they should continue research for this study. The research should carry out on larger target group. This will gain more attention if they can make it public. Further study is really needed.

Then, the Linus program should get improvements too. We can see that the Linus is still not quite complete and perfect especially for the special need children. More methods, tools or allocation should given to the special need children’s classroom so that they can learn and master Linus contents more effective and efficient.