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Nektarios, Greece

nektariosf — 2018-10-29 12:38:10 UTC

I am a general primary school teacher and before collaborating with others I would like to have some time together, know each other better, talk about our common activities and decided what and how we will do it.

Lidija, Croatia

lidijaantolic — 2018-10-29 13:52:16 UTC

I am a general education teacher. When collaborating with people I need a safe environment, without negative comments.

2018-10-29 14:24:05 UTC

talk together and collaborate

Ayşe, Turkey

fable_tugcee_90 — 2018-10-29 14:54:56 UTC

ı am ageneral teacher and my school is a general school but We have some disabled students in the classroom and we generally talk and work together and we plan weekly.

ŞULE/TURKEY

sule_ogrt — 2018-10-29 15:00:17 UTC

I am a PRIMARY SCHOOL teacher but I get support from special education teachers. I agree with the courses.
(Pre- shool teacher)

lara italy7

2018-10-29 15:00:48 UTC

I am supported by a special education teachers. we program weakly

Helen, Spain

helen119 — 2018-10-29 15:06:08 UTC

I am a general education teacher. I need time and space to collaborate with the SEN teachers in my school. Unfortunately, due to bureaucratic paperwork and other issues, this time is not frequently available - if available at all. An additonal challenge is that I have a part time contract, which often means that coordination is limited to that done via e-mail or in the halls.

Rosi, Austria

2018-10-29 15:11:30 UTC

I am a special education teacher. Sometimes it is quite frustrating to collaborate with general teachers. Some of them are great! But some aren't. They are not interested in working together. So that's what doesn't make me happy sometimes.
The "good" general teachers and I meet weakly to work on our programm and make it together.

Petra, Croatia

2018-10-29 16:29:44 UTC

I am a general education teacher. In the school where I teach, there are no special education teachers. So, from my experience, I see that there is a need for a special education teacher in my school. General education teachers in my school do not have the time or space to dedicate themselves to SEN students.

I`m a general education teacher. There is an obvious need for special education teachers in my school.

ana_sudac1 — 2018-10-29 16:40:18 UTC

Maria, Italy, Special

damoramary7 — 2018-10-29 17:00:24 UTC

i'm a special teacher. I think work with general teacher is easier when that teacher know sen problematic or when he/she is been a special teacher in past. For me it's necessary to have a good relation with the general teacher. the problem there is when teacher have different idea about the way of behaviour with children...

NH

2018-10-29 17:06:43 UTC

I am Certified in special-education and general education. Although I teach regular education students, at times I get students that show at an early age of four years old the need for special education services. That is why it is critical that I cooperate with other preschool teachers and determining assessment at the preschool age.

Tanja, Croatia

2018-10-29 17:19:20 UTC

I am a general education teacher. But, last year I had to go to education in working with SEN kids (behavioral disorder students). This is not formal education in our country so I have no certificate for special education as a physics teacher.

Ayşegül,TURKEY

yavuzcanayse2 — 2018-10-29 17:27:09 UTC

special education is important in problem, patience and love. Planned work ahead to work again and again must be willing.

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yavuzcanayse2 — 2018-10-29 17:27:14 UTC

George

2018-10-29 17:29:06 UTC

George, Gree

2018-10-29 17:29:06 UTC

I an a general education teacher. There is a need for special education: we need special teacher and also a specific training in order to be able to manage difficult situations. We really don't know how to design special education activities

Francesca, Italy

francesca_borghi — 2018-10-29 17:32:46 UTC

I am a general teacher. In the Italian school system I think there is good idea of inclusion but the real problem is the lack of resources: human (special education teachers) and material. So I must say that I really need special education teachers. I have many SEN students but only few support collegues and sometimes they are motivated and willing to collaborate but not properly prepared because of lack of tr

Carmen, Romania

2018-10-29 17:52:27 UTC

Community members can support students and families by assisting to connect them with needed services and resources, and employers can provide internships, work-study experiences, apprenticeships, and jobs for young adults with special needs, and can help other businesses to understand the benefits of doing so.

Caterina Fantini - Italy

cate_67 — 2018-10-29 17:58:18 UTC

In my class I've got some SEN students and also the support teacher. We collaborate and work together, but the problem is that in Italy there are not many specialized support teachers and so SEN students don't have the the right help for their needs. Even the classrooms are not structured to favor a truly inclusive work .This is a great problem.

Daniela, Italy

2018-10-29 18:02:25 UTC

I am a common teacher with little experience with children with special needs. For a real and real inclusion a collaboration between school collaborators, common teachers, specialized teachers, families and specialized resources is necessary to create a close network and give voice to those in difficulty.

Jasna, Croatia

vinkovicj — 2018-10-29 18:10:29 UTC

I am a general education teacher. There aren't special education teachers in my school, so I can't collaborate with them. I would like to see a team of experts in every school; they would help SEN students with their difficulties and they would help teachers with advices on how to approach SEN students. We would often talk about progress and try to see what can we do different. Then it would make some sense.

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:14:04 UTC

A commission was created for problem behaviors in our school. This commission includes special education experts and guidance specialists. Students with problem behaviors are primarily evaluated here. When the solution cannot be found, support is received from the university and the hospital.

Abdullah, Turkey

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:16:35 UTC

Our school is a school for the mentally disabled. General teachers enter the courses together with special education experts. General teachers and special education experts decide on what to do with students on holiday time.

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:16:56 UTC

Our school is a school for the mentally disabled. General teachers enter the courses together with special education experts. General teachers and special education experts decide on what to do with students on holiday time.

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:17:55 UTC

Yes - working with pupils with additional needs takes time and effort but the rewards can be amazing

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:18:29 UTC

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:19:24 UTC

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:19:56 UTC

This is so true - is it possible I wonder for you to meet with a specialist teacher either in Greece or possibly apply for Erasmus KA1 to job shadow a specialist teacher in another country?

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:20:19 UTC

I`m a general education teacher. There is an obvious need for special education teachers in my school.

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-29 18:21:29 UTC

I am a special education teacher. Sometimes it is quite frustrating to collaborate with general teachers. Some of them are great! But some aren't. They are not interested in working together. So that's what doesn't make me happy sometimes. The "good" general teachers and I meet weakly to work on our programm and make it together.

İSHAK KURT - TURKEY

kurtishak16 — 2018-10-29 18:22:10 UTC

I need to know about the student's capacity and skill areas. I need to know his learning background and needs. These should be given to me as a report. My other colleagues should share the materials they use.

Jasna, Croatia

2018-10-29 18:24:21 UTC

I work in a mainstream school with no special education teachers. I strongly believe they would make great difference because sometimes we, regular teachers, don't feel competent enough. In many situations we would welcome some help from special education teachers.

İsmail Erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkiye

aseka — 2018-10-29 18:44:06 UTC

Fistly I have to say what I dont need: I dont need a lesson or daily plan, maybe I need a general plan. But I need more materials, cause I know that speacial students need special materials. I see that speacial students love to produce themselves something. Whether disabled or talented, in fact all the students need producing, but specials need more..That's like: all animals are equal, but some are more...

Anja, Austria

2018-10-29 18:44:45 UTC

I work in a "normal" school with no special education teachers. Some of my collegues have studied "Special education teacher training", but we are a normal mainstream school.
My needs are:
How can I co-op children with special needs and "normal" children in one class - that everybody is able to learn in the best way?

Petra Kokeza, Croatia

pepy5 — 2018-10-29 18:47:03 UTC

I am a primary school teacher. We don't have a suport of special education teacher in our school. It would be great to have somebody who can help you with SEN students

Begoña, Spain

2018-10-29 18:47:42 UTC

I am a general teacher and I don't have any support within the classroom context. Some of my students go outside the classroom 1h/week to work with the speech and hearing teacher, but there's no support teacher working with me in the classroom.
I try to do my best but at the end of the day I feel frustrated because I feel that I'm not attending my SEN students' needs neither my no SEN students' needs.
Sometimes I don't even feel the support of my collegues, who justify their work just giving copies to SEN students and thinking that 'that's enough'.
I think that without a overall cooperation between family, school and INSTITUTIONS this cannot work

Sandra Leite - Portugal

2018-10-29 18:49:32 UTC

I am a teacher of special education and I work with children with special educational needs, severe ... very severe. I work in a unit.

Jolanta

2018-10-29 19:07:42 UTC

I work as a general teacher in secondary school and we do not have any suporting teachers in this type of schools. THey work with primary school students and this is definitely not enough.
The next obstacle is lack of time.

Maria Italy

damoramary7 — 2018-10-29 19:11:16 UTC

In my work is very important working together, collaborate and overcome different point of views or misunderstandings, among teachers, parents, therapists and others adults

Nertila, Albania

nertilamucka — 2018-10-29 20:05:56 UTC

I am a primary teacher (general school) and I have 28 students in the classroom, 2 of them are with SEN. I learn all the subjects and I do it with passion. What I most need is just a supportive teacher for my 2 SEN pupils,

to help them in their duties.

Monica, Italy

2018-10-29 20:10:20 UTC

I am a general education teacher and when I collaborate with people, maybe even other colleagues, I like to share my point of view and compare myself with them to work in a perspective of full sharing of the ways of intervention, of the strategies to be implemented , of the objectives to be achieved. Moreover I have had the modality to understand that the cohesion among the educational operators is always perceived by the students.

Zita, Lithuania

2018-10-29 20:15:08 UTC

I work as a special education teacher. I am the youngest techers in whole instiitucion, so what is sad I faced the problem - the idea of others "you are young, you do not know many things like we do". Plus there is a problem that often other teachers do not want to try new strategies, they have theirowns and not really want to change it or try something more effective. In other cases I miss consistency and without it is hard to change something.

Ana, Portugal

2018-10-29 20:29:47 UTC

I work as a special needs teach and my main problem is about time, I need more time with SEN students, more educational materials and more space to develop all the necessary activities. I have many students with SEN and little time to be with each one. The same goes for specialist technicians such as therapists who are short on time with students.

Jenny (Evgenia) Karoumpali, Greece.

2018-10-29 21:04:27 UTC

I teach music in a comprehensive junior high school. In the school I work there is no special education teacher, which is a problem. I feel too alone in the classroom, when I have no special education teacher to talk to about my SEN pupils.

I have cooperated with special education teacher in the past. This was a very good experience. Although we were not together in the classroom (according to the legislation a special education teacher is in the classroom together with the non special education teacher in case of a pupil with autism spectrum. Such pupils rarely go to comprehensive school in secondary education, they go to special schools in Greece) we discussed about the pupils with SEN outside classroom. The special teacher education used to give me very good advice with regard to the pupils with SEN.

In my opinion, secondary schools should have more special education teachers (especially in comprehensive schools).

Dilajla, Croatia

2018-10-29 21:10:34 UTC

I work in mainstream school with no special education teachers. Collaboration is very important and it would be great to have a support team which can provide you with help you need. Usually you just have to fill paper work and handle the situations by yourself

Mirjana, Croatia

2018-10-29 21:29:09 UTC

I think the same as my colleagues 
from Croatia.    I am a general education teacher. There is no special education teacher in my school. It would be nice to have special education teacher at school who could help sen students in their work and also help us, teachers, giving us advice and confirmation if we are doing good or what we should do different or better for our students.

Doinita B., Romania

2018-10-29 21:32:48 UTC

In my school there are only teachers of general education. We are all working to meet identified needs in students with special educational needs, and we often succeed in doing so. Indeed, experience has shown that our concern to meet the special requirements also benefits ordinary students. When we can not easily find solutions to different issues, we collaborate with special education teachers and find effective solutions.

Emine Yüksek/İzmir

2018-10-29 22:16:06 UTC

I'm a kindergarten teacher. Special education and support training teachers do not enter the classroom. I don't have any staff to help other kids in my class when I plan an event. That's why he has to wait for the integration student. I need backup personnel. And I have a class of 23.

Ljubica Ruzhinska, Macedonia

rljubica_78 — 2018-10-29 22:59:52 UTC

I am a general teacher in a mainstream primary school and teach English as a second language. We don't have special education teachers in our school. From the start of this school year we do have 4 teaching assistance in our school, which are assigned to work with some of the SEN students during regular classes, but we are a large school (1400 students) and having only 4 for the whole school is not enough (but it's better than having none).
I've always loved the idea of co-teaching and I would love to be able to have that support from special education teachers in my classes because I can see all the benefits from this type of cooperation and collaboration.
I do try to cooperate and collaborate with other teachers in my school (those teaching in the same grades as me) so we can talk, discuss, share ideas and good practices, be able to observe each other lessons (even when we don't teach the same subject because you can always learn something new and interesting which can be adapted for my own lessons and subject) and try to give feedback and support to one another.

A strong team obtain high results! The collaboration among teachers is very productive during this special process. In the school of my children, here in Rome specially, unfortunately every year teachers change school because of their short term contract causing troubles to SEN pupils and their families, and also to the permanent teachers. I would hope this situation goes better

2018-10-30 02:36:32 UTC

Vincenzo M. Italy

2018-10-30 08:18:24 UTC

Many times work with special kids requires time and effort, but in the end the results are always satisfactory.

Sam

2018-10-30 08:31:39 UTC

I am a general teacher working with early years children (4-5 year olds). The school setting is a primary (IB PYP) school in the UAE. There are 1200 students ranging from 3 years to 11 years. Over the last year, more provision for children with additional learning needs has started to be addressed more consistently across the school. Working in an early years classroom I have been fortunate to work with two teaching assistants (with a class of 25 students). Communication is key in developing a successful curriculum and programme that can be accessed by all the students. Regular meetings - sometimes formal, other times informal, are so valuable in sharing ideas about what works / doesn't work with each individual student. Working with young children often means that we are the adults who are identifying the children's learning needs and if necessary, involving specialist teachers in developing an appropriate programme for that student to succeed. A working relationship with each child's parents is essential in helping their child move forward. Understanding their home background & cultural diversity plays such an important part. So, communication (both speaking and listening, collaboration and cooperation with all team players is essential when having a shared interest of helping each child to succeed whilst having fun at school.

Inge, Belgium

2018-10-30 09:05:32 UTC

It is not easy, but i have a lot of nice colleagues who want to help. But a also have others. It is not easy to collect knowledge. We now have special need teachers who come in the class, but they are new in the field and also searching for answers.

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

2018-10-30 09:06:30 UTC

I am a general education teacher. I have never worked together with other teachers in the same class and I am not sure I can manage it. I believe I want to know more about collaboration between teachers working together in a class with students with special needs.

Eleni

2018-10-30 09:24:50 UTC

It's so nice when you can collaborate with others teacher in order to help your students and improve their school life. But it's not easy all the time. Sometimes teachers feel like that the other teachers want to judge their work. If only teachers are open minded, they will have better results in their classroom.

Dajana,Croatia

dajanajelavic — 2018-10-30 10:22:04 UTC

I am a general education teacher and I would like to have support but I don't have any .

Raúl C, Spain

liowa10 — 2018-10-30 11:07:24 UTC

I am a general teacher and I need less students, more time and sure more formation. I think is primordial a good children evaluation. Sometimes the profesional team don't make a good evaluation.

Yavuz, Turkey

yavuzyildiz69 — 2018-10-30 11:53:51 UTC

I'm a deputy principal in elementary school. There are students in our school who need special education. In our special education classes, two teachers are working together to help each other. One teacher teaches our students who need support education services in our other classrooms. These teachers usually receive help from our guide teachers. As a school administrator, we provide our best contribution to students, teachers and parents who need special education. But I believe we have more information to learn on this road.

Marco, Germany

2018-10-30 12:37:37 UTC

I teach mainstream students. I need reliable, honest partners when collaborating with others. Furthermore, a certain open-mindedness is appreciated as well.

Géraldine, France

mrsmazue — 2018-10-30 13:56:41 UTC

I'm an English teacher in a vocational school for special needs students aged 11 to 19 years old. In my school we do co-teaching with the professional fields. What we need most is the time for preparing things together.

Maddalena Farruggia (Italy)

2018-10-30 13:56:45 UTC

I am a general teacher and I think that collaboration with the support teachers is necessary in order to help the child with disability.

Rosa,Italy

2018-10-30 14:47:01 UTC

The greatest difficulty is to cooperate. Activities should be planned together with the support teacher in conjunction with the class curriculum for all disciplines but this does not always happen. There are few opportunities to meet.

Athina Paroussi/Greece

mara_lina23 — 2018-10-30 15:04:44 UTC

I never collaborated with an other teacher in my classroom , I love to collaborate , I think is the best wqy to advance yout work .To find new roads , to find solutions that never imagine . The problem in my country is that the teachers thinks that a SEN pupil in the classroom is an obstacle , and the parents hardly admit that their children need special education . In my classroom I have almost every year 1 at least pupil who need special education , and but , no assistance a cause of this climate

Ana, Portugal

ana_montenegro5 — 2018-10-30 15:06:38 UTC

I'm a general teacher and one of the main difficulties that I find when working with a special education teacher is time. It requires a lot of time to plan, organize and to finally put our hands on the strategies we define together. Sometimes we also find people with a different point of view, that isn't compatible with yours and it's difficult to manage these differences in order to achieve what is best for the child in need.

Michela, Italy

2018-10-30 15:16:34 UTC

I'm a general teacher. Cooperating with special education teachers can be a challenge, sometimes.
You have to share a role that has traditionally been individual: to share the goals, decisions, classroom instructions, responsibility for students, assessment of student learning and classroom management.

Svetlana, Serbia

2018-10-30 16:02:18 UTC

Collaboration is important in every class tipe. We should be open for new ideas and new experiences, and motivated for collaboration.

HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY

mavimavi2316 — 2018-10-30 16:03:31 UTC

I need less student more time and sure more formation. I would like to have support...

Lisa, Belgium

2018-10-30 16:08:32 UTC

It's important that we get a close cooperation between general en special education teachers and guidance staff. Right now often special education teacher or guidance staff are seen as 'the believers' and not all general teachers believe in their opinions; this needs to change.

Alessandra Amideo,

2018-10-30 16:13:33 UTC

ITALY

I am a general education teacher, but I also studied for the role of a special teacher. I often collaborate with the colleague of special education and I find it very stimulating to look for new solutions and inclusive strategies. Co-teaching is not easy, it needs a flexible mind and adequate studies, besides it is necessary to know how to work in a group.

Stanley,Nigeria

2018-10-30 16:14:32 UTC

I supervise general education teachers.Specialist teachers are actually in short supply.What we do is to research the learning challenge and find teaching strategies that match it.We however collaborate with others to discuss workable solutions.

Ioanna greece

2018-10-30 16:18:01 UTC

I a SEN teacher and I think that we should be in the sameness classroom with general education teachers and teach at the same time parallel! That’s the only way to achieve inclusive education. Two teachers for one class, two teachers for all students

I'm a specialized teacher and I'm a member of CTI, TERRITOTIAL CENTER For the inclusione. That IS the provincial CENTER.

2018-10-30 16:49:08 UTC

Violeta, Romania

violeta_crst — 2018-10-30 17:16:19 UTC

am a general teacher and i work with SEN students. It would be great if sometimes i could collaborate with a special education teacher because i think it would be for the benefit of SEN students. Untill now i dindt had this chance but i think the collaboration between a general teacher and a special education teacher would offer great results for all students, not only SEN students.

Sara, Mexico

2018-10-30 17:16:55 UTC

I am an ELT, my main interest are ICT and academic wriring. I hve taken lots of Moocs and online courses in diffent areas of teaching English and Spanish as foreign language. I think I could support SEN students by using ICT in the process of learning ELF:

violeta_crst — 2018-10-30 17:20:23 UTC

I am a general teacher and i work with SEN students. It would be great if sometimes i could collaborate with a special education teacher because i think it would be for the benefit of SEN students. Untill now i dindt had this chance but i think the collaboration between a general teacher and a special education teacher would offer

Needs.

2018-10-30 17:23:00 UTC

I am a special education teacher and I work in collaboration with Head of Departments and Education Officers from mainstream education as to both have a better picture of our situation.

Serdal, Turkey

2018-10-30 17:31:06 UTC

Collaboration between general and special education teachers is a integral part of effective teaching for all students, including those with learning difficulties.

Marija Huzjak-Saban, Croatia

mhsaban — 2018-10-30 17:45:51 UTC

As a general education teacher I work alone in the classroom although I can always ask for help and advice. There is a school team for support (a social worker and psychologist) and other colleagues who are always ready to collaborate. We need more time together to discuss problems and to make plans how to overcome them. I would be very happy to have a colleague who would work with me in the classroom and take care of the part of the class because I sometimes feel I can’t teach at the same time SEN students and general students so I feel uneasy and frustrated.

Angelica P., Italy

angy_prof2012 — 2018-10-30 17:55:23 UTC

I am a general teacher and sometimes I worked with SEN students. Until now often I collaborated with the special education teachers, but when I didn’t chance of this collaboration it was very difficult achieve good goals. I think the most important need of a general teacher is the collaboration and sharing of knowledges and experiences.

Sabrina, Austria

2018-10-30 18:14:05 UTC

I work as a general and a SEN teacher asisting class rooms. We have a doctor, a psychologist in our school and teachers, who the students can talk to if needed and the class room asistence. Sometimes we would need more rooms or smaller groups. Very important, as they said in the videos before, is the importance of communication, feedback, openess between the staff and the mind set. I can understand that is could be weird having another teacher in the class at first, but things change and we should be open for news or changes and give it a try. I like the idea of the buddy system and we have it in our school (younger and older, social peers) and I can imagine that could be useful with SEN students. Last year that happened without being discussed before, because a girl was so nice and just did it.

Barış ,Turkey

2018-10-30 18:19:08 UTC

I am special education teacher. We have been working together with the foreign language teacher for a few weeks. Generally compatible.İf she had a pedagocical formation about SEN students,she would know the students easily.success then gets closer.
My class is narrow. I need a broad class.Workshop needed for new learning

José María, Spain

2018-10-30 18:28:22 UTC

I have full confidence in the good work of my special teacher at school but he can not do it all with everyone! It´s necessary an excellent collaboration between him and all of us and that we all have a good training on these issues. In my case, only I (in my school) is following an apprenticeship as in this MOOC. I wish there were many more companions here!

Zeynep, Konya Turkey

abdullahozturk42 — 2018-10-30 18:31:47 UTC

There is no good cooperation between general and private teachers. General teachers are not familiar with students' barriers and how to train them. First of all, they need to edit their perspectives.

Annamaria, Italy

annam_ronchetti — 2018-10-30 18:44:30 UTC

I'm a general teacher and very often I work together with specialist education teachers.
It's a challenge because a good result depends on individuals. You can collaborate in different ways, but I think that co-teaching is the best one. Each student sees general and special education teacher as equal and there are no differences between them. Of course, you have to talk and to share and to decide lesson plans together.

DERYA TURKEY

skynett98 — 2018-10-30 19:27:32 UTC

I AM A GENERAL TEACHER.I COLLABORATE WITH COUNSELLORS AND SEN TEACHERS.IT IS USEFUL

Hana, Croatia

2018-10-30 20:34:28 UTC

I am a special teacher and I work well with other teachers. They are gladly to accept my advice, but the problem is that sometimes it is not easy for them to apply everything I propose to them because of the number of students in their classroom, the time they have available and each student's different needs.

Donatella Passiatore, Italy

2018-10-30 23:04:53 UTC

I teach Design and History of Art in a scientific high school and I relate every year with 9 classes. I also have the title of special support teacher and I have been doing this highly educational experience for 7 years. I firmly believe that the teacher is a cultural mediator, whose task is to transmit knowledge in compliance with ministerial programs using them as tools for guiding the educational goals that society asks.
The role of the teacher is therefore fundamental in the cultural and emotional growth of all students, including those with learning difficulties. It is therefore indispensable the collaboration between teachers of general and special education to achieve an effective teaching. Only through teamwork, where culture, educational tools, trust, esteem and consensus are put into play, can a climate be created to develop the right learning.

ALEV KAPAN -TUREY

2018-10-31 05:57:25 UTC

Collabration between a general and special teacher provides good results but in my school there is none special education teacher so everything depends on the special effort of a general teacher and this is not enough

Melek Göksu

2018-10-31 08:05:11 UTC

Working with cooperation is going nice. It relaxes us

Rajka, Croatia

2018-10-31 10:02:53 UTC

I'm part of expert team. We have good co- operation with most of teachers. Problem is that general teachers don't feel competent in feld of work with SEN students.
Some time they don't understand why they need to do somthing in certain why.
With some of teachers we have a problem because they don't want cooperate with us. They think because we are not in class with SEN students we don't understand, and that we are only know theory.

Kristian, Croatia

2018-10-31 10:06:05 UTC

I think general teachers who have students with SEN in their classroom should more cooperate with the expert team (pedagogues and special education experts) during the development of a curriculum for the student with SEN, and during the whole school year.

Snjezana Kovacevic

knjiznica_zlata — 2018-10-31 10:07:08 UTC

I am general teacher. I work in school library and often collaborate with my colleagues teachers. Collaboration is nesessary, mutual help, cooperation with expert service in the school is important also.

2018-10-31 10:09:38 UTC

co-operation

Natalia, Italy

2018-10-31 13:56:57 UTC

I teach foreign languages in middle schools. In my opinion there are not enough comparisons between the parties in Italy, everyone works on their own and do not exchange material, when I do I look like an alien.

Marijana, Croatia

2018-10-31 14:18:19 UTC

Oh, wow! In our school some SEN children have support assistants assigned directly to them (individual support), but the idea (and, more important, practise) about SEN coteachers for different subjects in curriculum assignet to whole school is just genious. There is no shame, no stigma or- no exclusion of SEN child, there is only help and support to all children and the mainstream teacher as well. Totally universaly designed!
I'd talk to the assistants that are already in the classroom would they like to be support teachers for everybody in the class, and ask them would they help me to improve my plan according to the capacity of given SEN student, but in the same time accordingly to all children. I think they would accept.
I am very, very thrilled with the idea ;-)!

Anita, Croatia

anita_simac — 2018-10-31 14:38:38 UTC

Peer sharing between children and colleagues is brilliant. PLCs is a term I have heard of but have not had an opportunity to put into practice. More cooperation and collaboration between teachers should be advocated.
In this day and age, with all the demands our curriculum brings, extra support is always welcome.

Konstantina, Greece

konstantinakokmotou — 2018-10-31 15:55:25 UTC

I am a general education teacher and I have collaborated with special education teachers. I believe that this combination can help students with SEN. Collaboration is meaningful!

As teachers, we should help each other while educationg SEN students. We can do better!

2018-10-31 16:07:58 UTC

Francesca N.,Italy

2018-10-31 16:09:53 UTC

I work as a general substitute teacher in primary school.When I teach I need to know my students but it happened that I start to work without knowing anything about the pupils. Futhermore I did not have the chance to know the specif situations of all the SEN children. The staff should be more organized. Teachers need more time to plan together.

Claudya, Romania

claudia_neacsa — 2018-10-31 16:18:02 UTC

I am a general education teacher and I work with kids with SEN. unfortunately, not all schools can benefit a specialised teacher to support us and collaborate with..

Sara, Italy

saradiberardino_sdb — 2018-10-31 16:52:08 UTC

I am a general teacher and I teach in a high school. It happens very often that we go into new classrooms but we don’t know if there are kids with “problems”, so we don’t put a special attention to them. Moreover, if there is the special education teacher, it is not always possible to talk and discuss about that student as we don’t have enough time to do so!

Lorenza, Italy

2018-10-31 17:07:08 UTC

I'm a specialised SEN teacher. I collaborate daily with my colleagues, and what I find more useful, when collaborating, is organisation. If a general teacher knows, has planned what to do with the class, he/she will be able to say which objective he/she wants to reach by that learning unit. In this way I can plan lessons without improvising and trying to make the objective universal, having the time to well adapt tasks, assessments, tools etc. I want to know it in order to make the SEN students access the same contents of their classmates.

Maria Jacinto, Portugal

luisad741 — 2018-10-31 17:55:49 UTC

I am a general teacher. I feel that the lack of time is the main problem to work in collaboration with the special SEN teacher. Moreover in Portugal some interpretations of the law left many SEN students without a special needs' teacher collaboration in class which I find very disturbing.

Hakan,Turkey

bekenbolu — 2018-10-31 18:10:21 UTC

I am a general teacher. I personally believe the importance of cooperation with anyone or any institution involved in the process but the problem is that pupils with SEN in the mainstream education have no SEN teacher or a support teacher. The guidance service send us a paper stating that this pupil is a SEN and arrange your teaching accordingly. Every child has a different kind of need of learning and the time is very limited.

Daniela, Italy

2018-10-31 19:20:12 UTC

I’m a special educational teacher in a Secondary art school, where I had the opportunity to start working eight years ago. Consequently, I have not a long teaching experience. Despite this, I had some positive experiences in terms of cooperation with general teachers with whom I was able to plan some activities for all students in the classroom. Two years ago, I taught in a classroom where we had many different educational needs and it was very difficult for my general colleagues to face this situation. I proposed many strategies, and one of this was the alternate co teaching for some students who needed to improve their skills in English, as I’m also an English teacher, and this was a very successful experience as students were more involved and improved their way to approach difficulties but also to solve them. Furthermore, SEN teachers should have a restricted field of competences, I mean that they cannot provide support for any discipline but only for those they have specific competences.

I have really loved the video on co-teaching and I believe that this is the best way to face nowadays educational challenges. It should become the ways schools organise their staff and methodology and not just the sporadic initiative of a good will teacher.

Serenella Silenzi, Macerata, Italy

s_silenzi — 2018-10-31 20:15:02 UTC

I am a general/mainstream teacher in an upper secondary school in central Italy, in particular I am an English teacher and my pupils are from 14 to 19. In all my classes there are from 2 up to 5 or 6 SEN pupils. Each one has got its personalized “learning contract”, an agreement between school-family and medical equipe. Sometimes my pupils have got an assistant and a support teacher but, if their diagnosis is not too severe, they just have their general teachers. I can say that the staff often meets to focus on SEN pupils, yet it is not enough. We would certainly need more time to plan, share stories as well as methodologies. Moreover we should be in closer contact with their families and know more tools to facilitate their learning and give them more educational opportunities. Last but not least I would like to increase co-teaching in order to build up a more inclusive school where cooperation is the class routine, everyone is valued, and granted the chance to get the highest learning achievements.

Alma, Lithuania

abidve — 2018-10-31 20:41:51 UTC

I am speech therapist andI colloborated with teachers, special teachers, psychologist, social educators. And I think that it is very important thing in my job. Sorry but my english isn't good:)

I'm a general teacher and i would like to have the support of a special education teacher in every class with SEN students. Co-teaching is a great idea.

2018-10-31 22:22:08 UTC

I'm a support teacher. in my school we collaborate through an exchange of opinions and planning together. Sometimes the relationship is very difficult because in some cases colleagues think that I should provide answers to solve problems of some children in particular with behavior problems. The point is, however, that very often some problems can not be solved unless faced by everyone. Sometimes perhaps the hardest thing is to accept that there is a problem and that it will not be solved right away.

mat_ia — 2018-10-31 23:07:21 UTC

Rossana; Italy

rossana_zunino — 2018-11-01 08:18:12 UTC

Serious team work is what we need. I won't say the Italian SEN teachers are not professional, but too often they are left on their own and the time to share ideas is not enough. So the efficacy of the teaching actions is left to their intelligence and commitment. It's not enough.

Ida, Italy

2018-11-01 10:16:04 UTC

I believe in cooperation, I think it is fundamental. There are not so many times to meet each other and design the activities together. I would have a week-meet also in the secondary school. In Italy it works very well in the primary.

Katjusa, Italy

2018-11-01 10:31:17 UTC

I am a general teacher who believes that co-presence and cooperation are crucial to any class, let alone to classes where some students have special needs. Unfortunately, lots of colleagues don't like cooperation or copresence, as they feel judged. Hence, what is needed first of all is trust

Tania, Italy

tania_vagnoli — 2018-11-01 11:07:16 UTC

I'm a general teacher and I think collaboration among teachers in general is fundamental for effective teaching for all students. Unfortunately it's often difficult to realize "on a systematic basis". In secondary schools each class has about 10 teachers who teach different subjects and who meet all together about once a month/two months to discuss and analyze
the situation of the class, the behaviour and the results of each students. In my opinion that's no enough for a real collaboration because we should have more time to plan together, to share our observations, to work together. Moreover, we don't have enough SEN teachers and specialized educators. They are provided only for SEN students and only for a few hours a week while SLD students (students with dyslexia, ADHD, etc) are left "alone", only with the help of the general teacher. They have an individual learning plan but it is carried on only by the general teacher who, very often, has in his/her class at least 3/4 students with SLD and no help or possibility of co-presence with other teachers of the class: too little to realize effective cooperation and inclusive practices.

Franca, Italy

2018-11-01 11:44:10 UTC

_{I am a general education teacher, but I have been also a special education teacher. I think teachers should be prepared on special education needs so that each teacher should be both general and special teacher at the same time: his/her school time could be divided with collegues so that at times he/she teaches, but at other times helps SEN students and look at things from other perspectives, children perspectives.}

Majlinda, Albania

anikapana — 2018-11-01 12:12:48 UTC

I am a general teacher. I teach pupils in a primary school, but I have often had students who need special attention in my classroom. I always try to get the latest information and to be updated regarding to the teaching methods and needs. To achieve this, I always discuss every situation with my colleagues. It would be ideal if we had special education teachers to discuss with...
What I really need is professional advice and the possibility to get trained...

I'm a general teacher. I think that collaboration between general and special education teachers is very important.

2018-11-01 13:22:41 UTC

Darija, Croatia

2018-11-01 13:49:22 UTC

I work as a general teacher and in the classroom I do not have any help from special teachers. At the beginning of the school year, from the school psychologist we get brief instructions on each SEN student according to which we would have to compile the work plan and program for each student in particular. We can ask for help, but mostly we depend on ourselves.

It is a great idea to have special teachers in the classroom and this would make it a lot easier because sometimes I can’t teach SEN students and general students at the same time.

Darija, C

2018-11-01 13:49:28 UTC

Adelio, Portugal

2018-11-01 14:25:11 UTC

I work a general teacher and as a special teacher, and i have SEN students in my regular classes and SEN students that I work alone with them. Every time I need something for a student I have the help of my colleagues and the coordination of SEN students who provides us with the information and the tools needed to work with those students. In order to improve my methods and knowledge about SEN subjects I often do formation on this. The first time I had to work with a SEN student was very frightening but he led me by the hand and showed me the way to teach him, it was magical. Nowadays I often work with diferent students with SEN and I love it, their drive is so amazingly strong that you have to cope.

Simona, Italy

2018-11-01 14:58:42 UTC

I'm a general teacher in a primary school and I work with two special education teachers and an education assistant. I think that in order to be successful as teachers we have to build a good professional relationship among us, based on trust and equity. It's not a matter of who is more experienced or talented, what matters, I think, is believing that anyone can learn from collegues, anyone can teach them something and what makes us a team is the common objective of caring for our pupils.

Jessica, United States

2018-11-01 15:16:07 UTC

I've worked as a general educator and a special educator. The main thing I've realized is that you must be flexible in either setting and know that worked one day may not worl the next. The focus should be on positive progress and the reflection should include areas of improvement.

Clara Cristino, Portugal

clara_cristino — 2018-11-01 16:33:24 UTC

I would like to have another adult in the classroom, no doubt., for complementary work purposes. I'm a general teacher and I believe the meaning of inclusive education cannot be away from inclusive teaching - meaning different teachers, with different teaching styles, collaborating to give students as much individual attention as possible, and providing them with what they need. As in medicine, if I were a general practicioner I would recall on a colleague specialist to give the patient the best health treatment possible.

Anna Chiara, Italy

2018-11-01 16:45:14 UTC

I am a general teacher in a secondary school. I used to teach in the vocational classes where there are at least two SEN students. We usually have support teachers but unfortunately they often change because they have not a fixed position. I would like to collaborate with the same support teachers over the years, especially with whom who really are about their students.

Federica from Italy

2018-11-01 17:13:00 UTC

I'm a general teacher in a secondary school. The biggest problem in my school is number of pupils in the classes (up to 30 pupils). And then it's very difficult to have a contact with students and to understand all their needs. Teachers need to have a support during the lessons and families collaboration after the school hours.

Angelica, Italy

2018-11-01 17:15:05 UTC

I’m still studying, so, by now, I never had to collaborate with a special education teacher during my internships. Anyway, I think that two teachers who collaborate can reach more students. For example one teacher can see the work of the other teacher from a different point of view, so, if they communicate, they can help each other to plan more effective activities for students and learn new things from the colleague. Plus, it's better to have 2 teachers when the students are like 25/30.

Annabella Tamburrini Trieste

decanushc — 2018-11-01 18:30:19 UTC

I’m a general teacher in a primary school; when, in my classrooms, there are SEN pupils with serious disabilities (for example autistic syndrome), for the 104/92 law they have the right to use a special education teacher. This colleague is a member of the teacher class team and he/she works with the SEN pupil at the same time he/she can do it with all the pupils. In my reality, unfortunately the special education teacher often works only with “his/her” SEN pupil and he/she doesn’t feel invested of the same responsibility for the other pupils. It always depends on the singular person, but I think it’s a “forma mentis” typical of these colleagues.

Sofia, Ital

emmaros — 2018-11-01 19:03:20 UTC

I am a general teacher and in my class there are always 2/3 SEN students. This year there are 2 cognitive disabled students with two different SE teachers. It has always been difficult to prepare different materials for each SEN student, but this year I want to realize a different approach and using the ULD.

Saša Špoljarić, Croatia

2018-11-01 19:58:32 UTC

I am a general teacher and almost every class has a few disadvantaged students. The biggest problem is that each lesson needs to produce materials for these students. This takes away a lot of time. Unfortunately, there are also those students who do not want to work regardless of what their content is adapting. These situations are demotivating. We need less pupils in the class, more technology and materials.

Kasia, Poland

2018-11-01 22:03:23 UTC

I'm special teacher. We have small class with menthal, visual and movement disability. Two of my students are with autism. My needs are to have more time. I have teacher-helper usually, so it is good situation for students and teacher. I often make workshops for general education teacher. In my opinion special teacher can help general teacher because of experiences and qualifications.

Isabel Nunes, Portugal

isanchesnunes — 2018-11-01 22:39:08 UTC

As a special education teacher I like to work in partnership with the class teacher, I plan to include students with special educational needs in collaboration with others. In my experience this support becomes easier in pre-school and primary school.

The organization of the classroom should also provide for collaborative participation among students, the tables must be arranged in a way that enables group work and allows the various students to sit close to each other, favoring a dynamic of inter -group and inter-help.

The tasks are performed in an interdependent way, the individual objects may be different for each student in the group. The success of tasks depends on the work of everyone.

I think the following ideas are essential:
Careful negotiation
Basis of equality
Mutual learning
Socket joint making
Effective communication
Promotion of dialogue

Elisabete, Portugal

2018-11-01 23:12:12 UTC

As a general teacher, I meet formally and informally mainly with the psychologist, the tutor teacher, the SEN teacher and with other general teachers.
We do talk, whenever we feel it is necessary, but my specific needs go beyond these meetings and talks, they have to do with the teaching process itself, with the lessons themselves, with actually getting things done the right way for all, with my (lack of) experience and training for working with SEN students in class (even less when it envolves large classes), with the fact that we often have too many students and classes, so we do not have enough time to reflect more deeply about how to do the right kind of planning (often involving a plan A, a plan B, a plan C, etc. kind of lesson) and get things done the right way, to select or create varied materials in order to meet every student’s needs, etc.
I believe most of us do our best every day, or try to, but I also believe quite a few of us reach the end of the week (or day) feeling a bit frustrated for being far behind what we were actually supposed to do for ALL.

Dina, Verona, Italy

2018-11-02 06:13:14 UTC

I am a class teacher, that is, a general teacher. I have often worked with the special education teacher, in class with me. I must say that in recent years in Italy it is very difficult to find a special teacher (we call it support) really specialized, trained and adequate. It seems to me that there is a big gap in the training of specialized teachers especially for LSD students. Very often these young teachers ask for advice from me or colleagues with a little more experience. Furthermore, it seems to me that they do not have a true and complete formation on pathologies, on non-traditional teaching techniques. Very often I see that they sit close to the pupil and simply help him to complete the work assigned to the other students. Although rarely, I have nevertheless had the opportunity to work with very competent support insiders with whom we could collaborate, interact and find alternative ways of working to improve everyone's inclusion and learning. My expectation is that all teachers, class and support, are more scientifically and didactically prepared.

Catherine Dourmousi

2018-11-02 07:09:18 UTC

I am a TEFL teacher and I work at a private foreign language institute. Unfortunately I never collaborate with a special education teacher. I am trying to do my best...

Petra, Croatia

2018-11-02 08:54:36 UTC

I am a special education teacher and I don't have opportunity to collaborate with general teachers. I collaborate with other special education teachers in my school, we share ideas, knowledge and experiences about our pupils.

Mirela, Croatia

Miroza — 2018-11-02 09:25:08 UTC

I am a general teacher and I don't have he opportunity to collaborate with special education teacher. Only for some of the students I work with an assistant in the class but it quite often happens that the assistant can't assist adequately because he / she doesn't know German and can't help me out.

Giusi Ridulfo Italy

g_ridulfo2 — 2018-11-02 09:36:21 UTC

I'm a general teacher. I have often worked with the special education teacher, in class with me.
I think the most important thing is the collaboration between the teacher of general class the teacher teacher of special education, if there is agreement and collaboration will be a benefit for SEN students
I too seldom have the opportunity to work with very competent support staff to work together, interact and find alternative ways of working to improve everyone's inclusion and learning.
it is very difficult to find a special teacher who is really specialized, prepared and adequate and I agree with my colleague Dina, Verona, Italy when he says that "I think there is a big gap in the training of specialized teachers, especially for LSD students. Very often these young teachers ask for advice from me or colleagues with a little more experience, and they do not seem to have a true and complete training on pathologies, on non-traditional teaching techniques. "

I am a special education teacher. I just want to state that not always there is collaboration between the general teacher and the SEN teacher. Some of them just want the student be quiet and doesn't make noise.It seems something like " it is your business". Fortunately not the general teachers are like that but it is really disappointing!

2018-11-02 09:38:57 UTC

Renata.Lithuania.

aiduke — 2018-11-02 09:42:40 UTC

I'm social educator. I work with students with special needs. I carry social lessons for them. First of all, in order to make things wrong, you need to be confident in your student, and the student must trust his teacher. Then things are much easier. Collaboration is one of the most important things for working with children. It is necessary to cooperate with both teachers and teachers and with various institutions.

Maria Rosa (Sicily)

maryroseprof — 2018-11-02 10:11:44 UTC

I’m a general teacher, but in the class where there are SEN students the special teacher collaborate with me to help students to reach good level not only in term of competences in my subject but in the relationship with the other students. I always say thank to special teachers who work with because they help me in preparing materials and tests for SEN students and I use sometimes the same materials for normal students too.

I think that a special teacher spending more time with the students than a general teacher knows better the needs of all students and so can help us to reshape our programs if it will be necessary .

I'm a general teacher and I don't have collaborate with special education teacher. I work with an assistent in the class for some of the students.

2018-11-02 11:20:22 UTC

Sven, Croatia

2018-11-02 12:06:21 UTC

I am a general teacher and I collaborate with other SN teacher on curriculum.

Annamaria, Italy

2018-11-02 12:52:32 UTC

I’m a general teacher and I have often collaborated with special teachers. I have always thought that the presence of a teacher specialized in sen was a wealth for the class. I hope to meet again special teachers so prepared and collaborative

Martina, Croatia

2018-11-02 14:29:56 UTC

I am a general teacher. I collaborate with special education teacher and assistent. Sometimes it is hard to work with assistent because he/she does not know the curriculum, but the collaboration with special education teacher I find usefull because we are trying to find the best way of learning for some SEN student.

Jelena, Croatia

jelena_erf — 2018-11-02 17:24:07 UTC

I am a special education teacher and I collaborate with general teachers and with assistent of SEN students. I am trying to help them with their curriculum so they can adapt goals and methodes for SEN students.

Bernarda, Slovenia

bernarda_boznar — 2018-11-02 17:55:42 UTC

I am a general teacher. i have not worked with special educator teacher yet. But I have sometimes asked the mfor advice on certain students, what activity, method would suit him/her. I have worked few times with classroom together wit hother teacher. We combined geography and english class. And on project days on our school it is common that two teacers of the same or different subject work whole day together with the same students.

Senka, Croatia

2018-11-02 18:11:43 UTC

I'm a general teacher. I teach English as a foreign language. I have never collabrated with a special teacher, only with assistants and I have had different experiences, some were good and some were bad. It was mostly very difficult because they had poor knowledge of English and I had poor knowledge of the SEN pupil's difficulty...mine was more easily solved since I only had to adjust some things, with their help of course....but in the end I remember dreading the time when they would leave and I would be alone again.

sylvie

2018-11-02 18:16:46 UTC

I am a special education teacher and at this moment I work only with sen students.
I believe that collaborative work, cooperation and sharing, whatever the profession, are always beneficial. Working with someone whom we can talk, exchange ideas, create and develop is much more beneficial and it allows us to grow as individuals and as professionals.

In school it has been very difficult to implement collaborative work among teachers, whether they are in regular or special education. And one of the reasons is that teachers do not have time to meet and work together after a long day of classes with too many students. Another reason is also the insecurity felt by some teachers.

Silvia, Italy

2018-11-02 18:33:39 UTC

I'm a general teacher at primary school. I think that whe I work in classrooms with children with SEN the most important need to me is time to project the activities with my colleagues that are specialized. Other things that I think are important to work better and include SEN students are: adeguated spaces in the classrooms and in the school, free ICT tools like a pc, tablet, printer, internet connection, free software - all things that a teacher can use to shape the teaching for each student's need!

Lada, Croatia

2018-11-02 18:58:26 UTC

I work as a vocational teacher in high school. At the beginning of the school year I get a brief instruction from the school pedagogue about every SEN student and according to these instructions I have to draw up a curriculum for each student. I have to do the initial assessment of the student and make a support plan for each student. The problem is that there are more and more such students every year. In the classes we have 20 students of which 3 SEN. To have less pupils in the classroom, to have the working conditions in my school better, to have the help of SEN specialists, it would be easier for me.

Dijana, Croatia

2018-11-02 19:38:07 UTC

I am a general teacher in primary school. Every year, at the beginning of the school year, all teachers gather information about students with special needs and they have to make a curriculum which suits their needs. Every year there are more and more students with special needs and it is difficult to meet all their needs while working in the classroom with those who are average and excellent. I have the feeling that I neglect either the excellent ones or SEN students. Support from school pedagogue is inadequate and useless. Collaboration with special educators is non existing.

Vincenza Rinaldi - Salerno Italy

2018-11-02 19:43:01 UTC

I am a general teacher in a secondary school in Italy but I have also worked as a specialized teacher in the past. I think that the collaboration between general and specialized teachers is fundamental: together we plan the lessons and organize the materials and this helps all the students, not just those SEND, to achieve the best results. Unfortunately, collaboration is not always possible when the mainstream teacher is 'jealous' of the class or when the specialist teacher thinks he is only the teacher of the SEND pupil and not of the whole class. All the teaching tools and softwares are very important as well, but unfortunately not all the schools are provided of the right equipment

2018-11-02 19:43:31 UTC

specialized

Gülcan, Turkey

gulcanayazfidan — 2018-11-02 20:06:07 UTC

I'm a general teacher in a high school. Unfortunately, we do not have a special education teacher in our school. We also collaborate with other teachers. We talk about our work or problems we have experienced for our students and we try to solve the problems by getting support from parents. Sometimes we ask for peer help.

Nurullah Kaya, Turkey

gulortmen — 2018-11-02 20:33:45 UTC

I am a Physics teacher in a high school. Like some of teachers in my country, Unfortunately, we also don't have a special education teacher in our school. We also collaborate with other teachers. We talk about our work or problems we have experienced for our students and we try to solve the problems by getting support from parents. Sometimes we ask for peer help.

Barbara Trivelli

dotriv — 2018-11-02 21:03:25 UTC

I'm a general kindergarten Teacher from Italy

Giovanna, Italy

2018-11-02 21:11:44 UTC

I'm a general teacher in a secondary school. . Teachers need to have a support during the lessons and families collaboration after the school hours

Emine YÜKSEK/TURKEY

2018-11-02 22:50:17 UTC

There are 23 students in my class, but I'm alone. There must be a deputy teacher. For a special education student, one-on-one tutor is required to increase his / her harmony with his / her friends in simple steps.

Leonor, Portugal

2018-11-03 00:12:18 UTC

I am a special education teacher and I try to work as a team with all teachers, because only then can we help students to improve their learning. I collaborate with teachers in the realization of strategies of pedagogical differentiation, adaptations in the curriculum and evaluation, in the organization of the classroom, in order to ensure a quality education for all students.

I try, whenever possible, to develop my work with students with SEN within the classroom, since inclusion in the classroom allows them to recognize the right to learn together with their peers without special educational needs, providing learning social interactions.

tea sisko, croatia

tejasisko01 — 2018-11-03 06:21:44 UTC

I am a general education teacher combined with special education teacher in one person. I have a need of education how to work better with sen students, share experience and connect to other sen teachers.

Miriam, Italy

miriamscafatihpg23 — 2018-11-03 08:16:10 UTC

I am a general education teacher. I haven't special education teacher in my school

Antonella P

avenusitita — 2018-11-03 08:36:09 UTC

As I said in the previous module, I am a general teacher and I would like to collaborate more with the SEN teacher. I would like the SEN teacher to be a teacher of the whole classroom to avoid the SEN students to feel uncomfortable. The ideas that are shown in the videos are very interesting, in particular, the class rotation of the students. this rotation is not only useful to the SEN students' inclusion but also to the other students to build the classroom as a whole.

Giuseppe, Italy

profgiuseppevullo — 2018-11-03 09:34:06 UTC

I'm a general teacher in a middle school. I have a good relationship and collaboration with my collegues special education teacher. I see them as an enrichment for the class and not just for students with SEN.

Yiota, Greece

YiotaKouf — 2018-11-03 13:16:17 UTC

I teach English as a foreign language and I often co-operate with the assistant teachers who help the SEN students. What I need is to have SEN teachers in all classrooms throughout the school year (for the time being they are temporary staff in Greece)

Dragica, Serbia

2018-11-03 13:59:54 UTC

I am a general teacher, I teach German as a foreign language. In my classroom I have from 20 to 28 (sometimes even more) students, and unfortunately we do not have a special education teacher. I would like to have one in the classes where I have SEN students. Also I would like to collaborate more with other teachers from my school who has SEN students, to exchange experience, thoughts and approach. In this little cooperation we have on this occasion most teachers only feel frustrated and incompetent. I wish we are all more open in my school for challenge that we have with including SEN students. And the most important that we educate ourselves on this topic.

Jana, Croatia

2018-11-03 15:05:05 UTC

I am a general teacher, I teach music. I have between 20 and 28 students in my classes. We somethimes have assistant but only one SEN teacher who has her own class and no time to be in my classes at the same time. I can talk to her about students but she can't be in my classes. I need more special support in class

Lucija, Croatia

2018-11-03 15:43:51 UTC

I'm a general teacher in 1st grade. I can ask the experts for SEN students in my school for help, but mostly they do not have time for spending it in my class. More special support is needed in the classroom.

Marzena, Poland

marzenkamazurek — 2018-11-03 17:05:33 UTC

I am a general teacher, I teach Polish. In my classroom I have from 20 to 28 students. We have not got any assistant of SEN pupils or specialist. I always know earlier somtehing about my SEN students, becouse we have a meeting with their parents. I red about their possibilities and barriers I red the documentation and talk with psychologist, and than I plan my work with them. I take part in professional courses and I exchange my experience or I am looking for solution. I have friends who work in integrating school so I can ask them too. Sometimes I feel that I need a specialis in my class, but it is not possible in my school.

Sema, Saltık

2018-11-03 17:19:30 UTC

I am a general teacher . I teach Enlgish in a secondary school.I have a SEN pupil in my classrom. In my school there are also two SEN teacher for severe students. We generally colaborate with them. We exchanes our ideas and experiences with each other.

Christos, Greece

christos_chachoudis — 2018-11-03 18:38:34 UTC

I am a SEN teacher and this year I work in a SEN school. Last year I worked in a general school where I was teaching in an integration class. Most of the other general teacher were bad informed about the integration class, thinking that the students there were just not to make trouble i their class and moreover they had to get better in order to get "hilled" from their problems. This was very sad to hear from people and especially teachers. There is a luck of information in my country and many teachers think this way, I hope the new teachers are more informed and more flexible in their classes. You can understand that we couldn't collaborate even I tried every possible way to approach them. Only one teacher was openminded and we made very good work collaborating in our classes. At the end of the school year as the rest of the others saw our work, told me that we can collaborate next year, but I am not at the same school... I hope they collaborate with the next SEN teacher

Maria, Greece

110961mp — 2018-11-03 18:53:26 UTC

I'm a general teacher in Kindergarten. According to my experience two teachers can work together, combine their professional knowledge, perspectives and skills to achieve learning objectives but they both need to be open-minded and respect each others' work.

Cristine,Italy

2018-11-03 19:10:54 UTC

I'm a regular teacher in a middle school-
I always ask special education teacher advice and we discuss the strategies thay work better

Constraints

2018-11-03 19:18:05 UTC

I am a general teacher; a teacher of English as a Foreign Language in year 11 The first constraint to pinpoint is definitely the time factor. Everyone is so busy with their classes and duties that collaboration constitutes a challenge. Discussions and the exchange of information and ideas are often made in an informal way, on the way from one lesson or meeting to the next.

Even so, the SEN teachers and general teachers (like me) do succeed in dealing with the daily challenges and difficulties we encounter. The SEN teachers in my school (one working full time and the other part-time) support 35 students in at least 10 distinct classrooms, where different subjects are taught during the school day. The role of the SEN teacher is therefore a very difficult one, and while they try to do their best, there is still a lot to be done and much is still left behind.

As a general teacher who was called in to support students who have different needs (and SENs too), I often feel the need know more and try to improve my collaboration by means of in-service training so as to ensure that I can participate in a more meaningful and competent way.

Constraints

2018-11-03 19:18:47 UTC

As a general teacher who was called in to support students who have different needs (and SENs too) I often feel the need know more and try to improve my collaboration by means of in-service training so as to ensure that I can participate in a more meaningful and competent way.
Graça

2018-11-03 19:18:56 UTC

to my own setting and my to my own setting and my role as a Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Cristine,Italy Cristine,Italy I'm a regular teacher in a middle school- I always ask special education teacher advice and we discuss the strategies thay work better Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Maria, Greece Maria, Greece I'm a general teacher in Kindergarten. According to my experience two teachers can work together, combine their professional knowledge, perspectives and skills to achieve learning objectives but they both need to be open-minded and respect each others' work. Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Christos, Greece Christos, Greece I am a SEN teacher and this year I work in a SEN school. Last year I worked in a general school where I was teaching in an integration class. Most of the other general teacher were bad informed about the integration class, thinking that the students there were just not to make trouble i their class and moreover they had to get better in order to get "hilled" from their problems. This was very sad to hear from people and especially teachers. There is a luck of information in my country and many teachers think this way, I hope the new teachers are more informed and more flexible in their classes. You can understand that we couldn't collaborate even I tried every possible way to approach them. Only one teacher was openminded and we made very good work collaborating in our classes. At the end of the school year as the rest of the others saw our work, told me that we can collaborate next year, but I am not at the same school... I hope they collaborate with the next SEN teacher Seu avatar Adicionar comentário Sema, Saltık Sema, Saltık I am a general teacher . I teach Enlgish in

Güneş, Turkey

2018-11-03 19:31:23 UTC

I am an English Language Teacher and I am teaching at a private school. I am attenting online courses to help them better. I learn techniques like multi-sensory techniques to teach my students also I ask for help from my school counselor

Dilek,Turkey

2018-11-03 20:28:08 UTC

I am an english language teacher in a vocational high school.I exactly dont know how to react to special needs students so I attend to online courses.

Elif/Turkey

izmireyy1100 — 2018-11-03 21:23:54 UTC

I am teacher of English and when I need help I ask my school's counsellor. The government open courses for it but as they are time consuming I can't joinn them during the school term so I prefer to join MOOC.

Gönül ,Turkey

eksigonul — 2018-11-03 22:13:21 UTC

I am classroom teacher.I haven't special education teacher in my school.

My needs as a general teacher

f_lelmi1 — 2018-11-04 08:05:40 UTC

I have been teaching for 23 years , I am a general teacher, I started 23 years ago in a Primary School and after a few years I moved to a secondary vocational school where I am still teaching English. Through all these years I have found a poor collaboration with SEN teachers, even if I have always given them the possibility to express themselves and work in the whole classroom. I have often found teachers less informed than me on students' special needs and, mostly, less willing to work diferently from the past...
Since I have been in charge of the whole SEN area for 4 years now, some of them even prefer not to to work with me in the same class, fearing to be judged or made be working harder.

Željka,Croatia

zeljka_v — 2018-11-04 09:36:11 UTC

I am a general teacher and when I need help I ask my older or more experienced colleagues .

Collaborative work - a long way to go in the Portuguese schools

adrianaacurcio — 2018-11-04 11:59:38 UTC

As a SEN teacher, I think, building a collective and / or collaborative work is a great challenge in most Portuguese schools. Teachers have become accustomed to individual work and, moreover, we have not been given time or space for joint planning.
So in our schools we must:
- Organize the times in order to privilege the interaction between the teachers;
- Work together in the classroom with the students;
- Authentic collective work without dispute among teachers; there must be a sharing of the potential of each teacher.

Ksenija, Croatia

Ksenija — 2018-11-04 12:27:01 UTC

I am an English teacher at a primary school. We do not have special education teacher.Everything remains with the teacher. You try things, see what works and what doesn''t yet the challenges are always new and different. We believe that we are an inclusive school, and on a social level we certainly are, yet I am not sure that in terms of teaching we did our best. The needs are multiple and require a lot of work, yet my knowledge and resources are limited.

Tiziana (Italy)

2018-11-04 12:45:03 UTC

I am a general teacher. I have worked with a special teacher in my class a couple of times. I must say that most of the support teachers in my school are very collaborative, which is great, as I believe that collaboration, not just with the special teacher, but with all the class teachers, is crucial if we want to achieve good results. When I happened to have a SEN student (and his/her support teacher) in my class, my colleague and I exchanged ideas, shared opinions about the most effective strategies to use, the best activities or exercises to give the student, I gave him/her materials to choose from and we arranged the contents of the student’s lessons. It worked out great. I acknowledge that not all the general teachers want or feel the necessity of having such a relationship of mutual support and collaboration with the special teachers and, in general, with the other class teachers. What's more, we have such a high number of students in each class that it is hard to find extra time to spend for one student alone. And even when there are formal meetings of the teachers’ staff, we have so many issues to discuss of, that there is always very little time left to talk about teaching strategies for one single student. I agree with Graça who says that “everyone is so busy with their classes and duties that collaboration constitutes a challenge”. It really is. So, most of the times, my colleagues and I exchange information, suggestions and ideas before or after the lesson, during the break, or when we meet in the teachers’ room or in the school corridors. To conclude, I think that what we lack is more time to devote to the planning of activities and teaching strategies for our SEN students and a teachers’ more open-minded attitude towards collaboration.

manuela, Italy

manuelabasu — 2018-11-04 13:14:04 UTC

I am a general teacher and, with regret, I must admit that in my experience cooperation with special teachers has been poor and not really enriching

I am a general education teacher, but I have SEN students every year (and the number seems to be increasing). My first big experience with SEN students was when I became responsible for a secondary class with two autistic students (one Asperger). I really struggled because I felt that neither other students in class, nor most teachers and parents were sympathetic with the students' situation even refusing themselves (teachers) to apply the measures to which students had legal right. This was why I decided to attend a course which made me a qualified SEN teacher. Today I still haven't worked (only) as SEN teacher, but I have SEN students every year, am back working in the same school and I feel that things are different, but there is still a long way to go in collaborative work. At the beginning of the year we learn from the psychologists and SEN staff what kind of adaptations teachers have to do to the way they teach and then we do it as best as we can. I feel that it is pretty much it, really. There isn't much collaboration between general teachers and SEN teachers. So, I also expect from this course that governments can be given some guidelines on supplying time and better conditions for people to work better for inclusion.

prof_saramiranda — 2018-11-04 13:38:15 UTC

Sara Miranda (Portugal)

2018-11-04 13:58:04 UTC

I am a general teacher and we have no special education teachers helping in our schoo but we do have a school psychologist who jumps to help if necessary.

Carmelina Italy

enrico_alosi — 2018-11-04 14:27:38 UTC

I am a general teacher but I have always had SEN students and special education teachers in my class. We have always worked together in the belief that an integrated plan was the best growth opportunity to offer a student with special needs in a truly inclusive environment. I was also lucky because I always worked with very good teachers, even when some students had important and complex problems.

Adriana, Romania

alyna_aly62 — 2018-11-04 14:47:41 UTC

I am a general teacher and in our area there is still a lack of collaboration with special education teachers. In one of my classes I had the chance to meet a special teacher, when i entered the room , he was siting next to the student , I did't know who is that person , what is he doing there, at the end of the class i asked him to speak about the situation, then the things got better, but still there is a problem with collaboration.

Katarina, Croatia

megakaja — 2018-11-04 15:04:00 UTC

I am a general teacher, but in school we also have SEN teachers. Together, we have meetings where we talk about students and their needs and cooperate with each other.

Petar, Croatia

2018-11-04 15:24:53 UTC

I am a general education teacher. I also have classes with students with special needs. This is the reason why i enrolled in this training course- to learn something new

Jelena, Croatia

2018-11-04 15:59:29 UTC

I'm general education teacher but we don't have SEN teacher in our school. I want to learn something new and find out about other teachers' issues related to SEN pupils.

Irena, Croatia

jirena30 — 2018-11-04 16:00:41 UTC

I'm general education teacher and after watching video clips my need is to have the special education teachers in my classroom, working with me! We have special education teachers in our school, but they work in two special classes with SEN kids. Needs of those kids are bigger, for lack of better word, they do not follow the same curriculum as regular students, and I talk and cooperate with them. But they never come to my class and we never teach together. It would be a great change if the would. And with each step of this course I feel I need to learn more.

Hakan D. / Turkey

hakandemir — 2018-11-04 16:14:24 UTC

I'm a Special Education Teacher. I've been working in a Practice School for three years. I have teachers in different branches in my school (such as physical education teacher, art teacher), I first teach them the status of students and how to approach them. Then I tell them which ways to work with them more effectively. Then, by entering their classes (if they wish), I offer suggestions to my friend teacher on how to apply the classroom management.

Josipa, Croatia

joboskovic — 2018-11-04 17:10:11 UTC

I'm a general education teacher. We have a special educator in kindergarten. Once a month, we have meetings where we talk about problems and goals in working with children with SEN.

Greta, Italy

2018-11-04 17:19:01 UTC

I am a special education teacher and I need basically two things: collaboration from my colleagues and from the family. Families don't understand that the kids may have difficulties while learning and the other teachers don't want to mess with families when it comes to this, they just close their eyes as if nothing happened.

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e_calkam — 2018-11-04 18:29:02 UTC

Emel, Turkey

e_calkam — 2018-11-04 18:29:02 UTC

Arzu Taş, Turkey

2018-11-04 18:53:47 UTC

I am a general education teacher. In my school, we work collaboratively with the SEN teacher. We continuously work together to plan and implement the lesson plans and tests for our SEN students. However, I believe that we should have more special education teachers who can actively help general teachers in the class. Also, the assistant teachers who help some students individually in the class should be more trained. Even if a SEN student has an assistant in the class, it is usually the general teacher who needs to simplify or repeat the instructions for the student and help with the differentiated work. The assistant teachers should know more about the subject we teach.

Frățilă Alina, România

2018-11-04 19:28:53 UTC

I'm a general professor. I work effectively in class with a school counselor. We do not have a support teacher although we are facing more and more students with more and more serious problems.

Sevda Basar, Turkey

2018-11-04 20:26:11 UTC

As a general teacher, if I collaborate with a special education teacher I need to learn his/her experiences with SEN students. I also want to get together with my colleague frequently to plan the processes about the students. In addition to general education plans I want to set personal development plans together with special education teacher.

Stavroula, Greece

2018-11-04 20:26:38 UTC

I am a general education teacher. I think that collaboration means that we learn from each other. So, in my opinion, both general and special teachers have to exchange ideas and experiences. Especially when we talk about SEN students where knowledge is also needed.

Tamara, Croatia

2018-11-04 22:04:08 UTC

I am a special education teacher (speech language pathologist) and school associate.In every day basis I collaborate with general teachers and assisted with SEN students (I'm coordinator for assistant of SEN students). I am trying to help teachers to write and activities with curriculum of SEN students so they can adapt goals and methods for them. But I need basically two things: more collaboration from my colleagues and from the family, too. As long as the family does not accept the problem of their child, the child can not progress or have the opportunity to develop and adopt new knowledge and skills.

Gordana, Croatia

2018-11-04 22:25:36 UTC

I am a general education teacher, I don't have specialist teachers to collaborate with and that would be my greatest need. In my school we have only one psychologist. At the beginning of the school year we get the basic information about SEN students we have and we have to do everything else by ourselves. Even though she is not a SEN teacher, we turn to our school psychologist in case we need support or advice. I would, however, prefer having a team of professionals I could cooperate with while planning, monitoring and assessing SEN students. It would be great to have a co-teacher in the class. I also believe that changes in my subject should only be a part of the greater project aimed at improving the education of SEN children in my school.

Maria, Romania

maria85mirabela — 2018-11-05 08:04:20 UTC

I am general teacher

Ana Filipe, Portugal

2018-11-05 09:13:33 UTC

I am a general teacher anda i have specialist teachers to collaborate with me in the classroom.
In my school we have a psychologist and a SEN teacher.
We understand that there can be no connection between educational agents if there is a
good basis for cooperation to support and facilitate the process of inclusion, there are key
factors, such as motivation, commitment and flexibility

I'm a school psychologist and I collaborate with all actors for inclusive education. Actually, I'm working as a counselor for class diretors, general teachers, SEN teachers, assistants, parents and all other relevant actors in this inclusive process. However, sometimes I feel we miss time to speak together and I observe that some of the general teachers not always appreciate the presence and collaboration from SEN teachers in their mainstream classroom.

2018-11-05 12:17:01 UTC

2018-11-05 12:38:55 UTC

As a school psychologist who works with general and SEN teachers I know that it's not easy to be a SEN teacher and work in a mainstream classroom with some general teachers who are bad informed about special needs. Sometimes these general teachers also feel uncomfortable because they see SEN teacher as space and authority "invader". Comunication and confidence between all of us are indispensable.

Federica, Italy

2018-11-05 17:33:41 UTC

I am a general teacher and I have two specialist teachers to collaborate with me in the classroom because there are three SEN students. We always work together to create a truly inclusive environment

Marianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

1canislupus22 — 2018-11-05 19:47:27 UTC

I don't have help. I am trying to manage the special teacher alone

Belgium

2018-11-05 20:04:29 UTC

I'm a general teacher but i'm definitely a favor of co-teaching. You can realise a lot more when you can collaborate. Twice a week I get support from a special education teacher. We work together in my classroom while she can support especially the SEN-students.
I also get support from our 'care teachers' 6 hours a week. At our school the collaboration between different teachers is very important.

Dorota, Poland

2018-11-05 20:42:56 UTC

We always teach together, generaly and helpener teachers. All of us are subject's teachers, for example English teacher and English teachers-helpener. We cooperate, share experience and knowledge. A big support gives parents. They usually cooperate with school, teachers and take the same way of working, teaching

Majlinda,Albania

kmajlinda — 2018-11-05 21:56:46 UTC

I'm a general teacher.I work alone with these kids because The special teacher that we have doesn't like to collaborate with other teacher.She thinks she can work with them without asking our help.She is there to help the students and us too.But she doesn't like to talk with others.It's really a big problem.We have tried to work with her but she doesn't want

Adriana Laze Albania

adrianalaze — 2018-11-05 23:28:25 UTC

Our special education teacher can not be all the time with the same pupil , so last times I have seen rarely her in my classroom during the time that I teach on the classroom . In our country we make one subject in two hours . So It is not easy for me because the first lesson he can stay inside the classroom but then he gets out of the classroom.Firstly I followed him , some times , but if I do this every lesson it means I can not teach the others . This is a big problem or dilemma for me. To follow him or to teach the others ?

Daniela, Italy

2018-11-06 03:05:53 UTC

I am a general teacher with several children who would need support.
Unfortunately, I find myself alone managing the entire class group not having support teachers.

Marijana, Croatia

2018-11-06 05:23:42 UTC

I'm general preschool teacher and don't have special education teacher in classroom. We have speech terapist in preschool and we share information and advise about children and how to work with them. I have several SEN students in and cit would be great to have special education teacher to collaborate with in classroom.

Zeynep - Turkey

2018-11-06 07:17:05 UTC

First of all, I need to know more about the student either when I am a SEN or general teacher. The teacher should be aware everything about the student to be able to help. I also need time which I can use effectively. The planning should be done cooperatively.

Miroslav, Croatia

2018-11-06 08:07:07 UTC

I'm the school pedagogue and along with my colleague who is a school psychologist work as the team regarding almost every student and especially SEN students. Of course, this teamwork includes the classmaster, the parents and the individual teachers. It is the only way that we, as the non-teaching stuff, can help our teachers because we don't have special education teachers within the school.
Depending of the level of the needs, students sometimes have assistants but the teachers rarely have any kind of help in the classroom.
As I see from the other contributions on this subject, the lack of special education teachers is the problem in many countries, not just Croatia.

Christine, Austria

2018-11-06 14:31:42 UTC

I´m a general teacher in a primary school with additional training in relation to inclusion. In our school there is a long tradition of special education. We work in teams but it depends on the special needs how many hours my colleague is in the classroom. The problem is, that in the last years there are less hours for supporting inclusive classrooms.
I think the most important thing in every classroom is to have an open ear for every student. I design every day in connection with the principles of Jenaplan.

Melike-Turkey

2018-11-06 15:43:21 UTC

I'm general teacher. In my country teachers whether they have SEN pupil or not, study in classroom alone. So that our real problem is this. I can see one another's problem but i cant solve by my side.

Isabel Quirino

2018-11-06 21:18:46 UTC

I think I need to learn to trust other professionals. We do not have the time to buid the relation in our team, so it is dificult to work together.

Ceyda DEMİR Turkey

2018-11-06 21:39:18 UTC

preschool teacher. When we have a student with SEN in our class, different families can make negative comments about it or we have difficulty in dealing with children with SEN when we have children who have no problem but have behavior problems.
sometimes we have difficulty in approaching the child with SEN. Even though we have special education teachers in our schools. I think we can do more useful work.

Mónica Vieira

2018-11-07 00:00:37 UTC

I'm a general teacher in a secondary school at the moment, but I sometimes teach in primary schools. This is actually the first time I'm taking the time to learn a little bit more about inclusive classrooms and different methods to approach children with SEN. Despite all of this, I've had several SEN students in my classroom and to be honest I felt I was being left alone to deal with this challenge. I think the way could be team work and having teacher work more often with other teachers and specialised ones as they can spread their knowledge and techniques and improve school environment. Collaborating with other people can be successful if every part takes time to listen and think about the global aim and not themselves.

Catarina R., Portugal

canrodrigues — 2018-11-07 12:14:08 UTC

I'm a general primary teacher and this is the first time that I'm learning about inclusive education. In my opinion, real collaboration among teachers is still a difficult issue in schools. From years teachers worked alone, in a disciplinary way. Now the perspective is changing and time is needed to learn how to do it.

Matea, Croatia

2018-11-07 13:59:00 UTC

I work in regular primary school as an assistant for kid with special needs. I work only with him and I have a very good collaboration with general teacher.

Marina, Lithuania

skobarkav — 2018-11-07 15:25:22 UTC

I work with students 2-
12 grades. I think that real collaboration
among teachers is a relly easy and everyday thing in our school. Once a month (sometimes more often) we discuss our problems , share opinions and invite psychologist to ask advice if we need.

Erkan,İSTANBUL

2018-11-07 15:34:49 UTC

I work at a secondary school and I have a few students in my classrooms I have difficulties spending time with them also planning is a problem I need to teach both regular students and them ıt ıs hard for me but I struggle.I just teach the last ten minutes of lesson for them

I'm a special needs teacher and I work in a collaborative way with my colleagues since I work in the class context. Communication and confidence are two main points in this collaborative work.

2018-11-07 16:22:36 UTC

MELEKTURKEY

2018-11-07 19:42:04 UTC

I 'm art teacher.I also attend art classes in the special education class in our school. There are three teachers with general teachers in the courses.

Ivana. Cratia

2018-11-07 20:05:21 UTC

I am general teacher. I teach chemistry in 7th and 8th grade. I have classes wih 20 students of witch 1-5 are SEN students. I would like to have better comunication and collaboration with scool pedagoue, psychologist and special education teacher. Sometimes I feel unprepared for work with SEN students and that is frustrating.

irem aksu, Turkey

Merimm — 2018-11-08 07:48:19 UTC

I am a general teacher. I need a very well-equipped and specialized special education teacher most.

LAURA BRAZZABENI

laura_brazzabeni1 — 2018-11-08 09:36:41 UTC

I am a genral teachr and I teach english in a vocational school in Italy. We have 3-4 special needs students in each class and 5--6 DSA students. We have special teachrs for some hours during the week and with teacher I have a continuous collaboration and we Always share everything either in class either in meetings either by WhatsApp.

Olga M.- Italy

olga_mosca — 2018-11-08 09:37:14 UTC

I am a SEN teacher of Italian Primary School for over 20 years. Over time I have verified the importance and the need to build an educational project in progress with the general teachers. I think that collaboration and sharing methodological-didactic objectives and strategies ( for example co teaching )can be the first important step for the construction of an inclusive classroom environmtent for everyone.

Ola, Poland

2018-11-08 15:31:12 UTC

I', a general English teacher. I love the idea of co- teaching. I have tried working with an assistant and I know it works perfectly. I also think that team teaching needs planning and a lot of collaboration outside the classroom. But it's also a great idea for self development.

Amber,

2018-11-08 18:36:44 UTC

I am a general teacher. My school supports team teaching on these days, one class day a week, we partner teach. We plan group work and individual one on one work. I think for me I need more to for planning in order to be able to collaborate more effectively.

Ivana B., Croatia

2018-11-08 18:48:10 UTC

I am a general teacher, teaching math. I like the idea of co-teaching. In my country we don't have that. Also in some schools is very poor collaboration with special educators. Usually general teachers must find a way for themselves how to teach special needs student. Also with some parents is also poor collaboration and then is very hard to motivate special needs student or to make him achieve his/her best. So my needs are better collaboration among other teachers, special educators and us and also among us and special needs students' parents.

Anamaria, Romania

2018-11-08 19:43:30 UTC

My school no special education teachers for all needs. I am a general teacher now but I was special education teacher, so I try to do all my best.

Milijana, Serbia

2018-11-08 22:00:38 UTC

I am a teacher of computer science and programming. In our school there are no special teachers for the needs of SEN students. It would be nice if you could procure special equipment, and if the cooperation between teachers and parents has improved somewhat.

Andrea Mangiagalli. Italy

mangiagalli — 2018-11-08 22:57:01 UTC

I'm a general teacher in a middle school. I have a good relationship and collaboration with my special education teacher colleagues . I see them as an enrichment for the class and not just for students with SEN.

Raffaella from Genova, Italy

raffaturbi1 — 2018-11-08 23:04:47 UTC

I’m a general teacher in a secondary vocational school.

I don’t have any special education teacher colleague at the moment, because in an evening course they are an exception.

In the past I have been a special education teacher and I kept well with all my general teachers colleagues.

Maybe because I always tried to help all the students in the class and not only the SEN students.

Then we made projects and activities together.

I liked that job a lot.

Rosie, Turkey

2018-11-09 05:39:28 UTC

I am an English a Foreign language teacher in a primary school. I have two classes- 48 students. I have students who need support in the class and are SEN students but this academic year ı do not have any support in the classroom from teacher assistants or SEN teacher. The SEN teacher does support the student but during their Turkish lesson. As the SEN teacher does not know English and they need support in Turkish the focus is there. Having more time on a weekly basis to collaborate with the Turkish SEN teacher could be useful. Having a SEN teacher who is an English teacher and who speaks English would be very helpful.

Tessa, Belgium

dejanstessa — 2018-11-09 10:44:57 UTC

I'm a general teacher and I have very good contact with the special education teachers. I think it would be a good thing that tey would come more often in my class and give me more tips and trics.

Nelly, France

neline — 2018-11-09 14:33:16 UTC

I'm an English teacher in a secondary school where we include SEN pupils inside our classes but where we also have special "units" for some of them who can't adapt to the general education system. What I need is practical advice like the ones we were given so far as to thow to adapt to eachh pupil and how to help them reinforce their self esteem and skills. We too often focus on their difficulties and I wish we could be given the possibility to enhance their capacities!

Marta Tarantino

martatarantino — 2018-11-09 16:15:19 UTC

I'm a general teacher. I do believe that collaborationamong school staff is crucial foe effective inclusive learning to take place. Communication and openess are the keys.

Muserref-Turkey

2018-11-10 07:37:47 UTC

Im general teacher. In my country teachers woŕking alone ıf we have Sen students or not. Thats the problem

BİRGÜL-TÜRKİYE

2018-11-10 07:37:47 UTC

I'm general teacher. In my country teachers working alone if we have Sen students or not. That's the problem.

viki dogani

2018-11-10 14:08:32 UTC

I am general teacher when we have spacial education chilrden we cooperate with special education teacher

Snjezana, Croatia

shhorvatic — 2018-11-10 16:10:34 UTC

I am a general teacher in primary school, in school we have pedagogues, psychologists and logopedists.

When we get a new SEN student, if necessary, the school organizes lectures by specialists of that area.

Susana Casanova

susanacasanovapin — 2018-11-10 17:12:15 UTC

Spain
Im a primary teacher, when we have a new SEN student, we try to find out his or her needs first. We try to create a special bond with the SEN student and also encourage other students to help. Inclussion is the hardest thing, but if you love your students, you would do as much as you can to motivate them.

Jasenka, Croatia

2018-11-10 18:57:53 UTC

I'm a general teacher in secondary school and mostly I work all by myself with SEN students. I would really like to collaborate with special education teachers so that I could ask for some advice on how to modify my teaching methods.

Çağrı,Türkiye

2018-11-10 20:47:53 UTC

I am a general teacher. When we have a SEN student, we have to help his/her alone. It is a really big problem for us to get help from a special education teacher because of lack of these teachers.

Milka, Croatia

2018-11-10 21:07:14 UTC

I am a general education teacher. I have very good communication with specila education teachers. However, I think that we need more time to plan and to discuss our students needs.

Yüksel -TURKEY I'm general teacher

suheylayuksel15 — 2018-11-10 21:41:33 UTC

Maria Calà, Italy

2018-11-10 21:47:44 UTC

I am a Catholic religion teacher in a primary school and even though there are support teachers who are mainly in charge of the SENs, I am almost alone in my time having to handle the situation. it is not easy, but the experiences made with these children are enriching for me and for the other students. Together with colleagues we have collaborated in projects and activities together.

Silva, Croatia

Kairoscale — 2018-11-11 06:58:41 UTC

I am a general education teacher. There are two defectologists in my school, but one of them works only with a group of SEN students who are not included in the mainstream education and the other works for three hours a week only and usually has just a little time to work with SEN students individually and when it's really necessary so I can say that collaboration with SEN teachers is quite poor.
What I need is to have a continuous collaboration with the SEN teacher throughout the year in order to find out all about the child's needs and abilities, modifications, adaptations of the curriculum, methods, teaching techniques and strategies.

Eva, Lithuania

2018-11-11 14:51:57 UTC

I'm a general teacher and if I Ihave a SEN studens I am on my own to try to find a way how to work with him or her.

Annika, Estonia

2018-11-11 16:54:19 UTC

I'm a teacher at primary school. I have studied as a general teacher and I have also studied special education. In our school, teachers work together and we have a competent support team: we have two speech therapists, special education teacher, three co-teachers.

Giorgia RomaniaG

giorgiagroza — 2018-11-11 18:07:56 UTC

I am national language teacher in a middle school. I spend 4hours per week with each class where I teach.My first problem is that we have to many children in a classroom, between 25 and 30 and is very difficult to work with them. When in the same classroom is one or more child with special needs, things become more complicated. there is no time and no thecnical support to work with them. There is no teacher assistant to support my work.

I´m a special education teacher and I work in a team with other teachers and a school assistent. Teamw

2018-11-11 19:36:57 UTC

2018-11-11 19:45:54 UTC

i am teacher for primary school but i have never work. i listen from others teachers who work that there a lot of children in a classroom, a lot of children have a lot of problem that they can not manage.

Amelia De Chiara, Italy

amelia_dechiara — 2018-11-11 20:22:23 UTC

I'm a general teacher in a lower secondary school. In many of my classrooms I have special education teacher. Some of them are really supportive and collaborative, we work together for our students success. But there are also SE teachers that, even if they are mainly in charge of the SEN students, let general teachers almost alone.

Barbara, Croatia

2018-11-11 20:47:56 UTC

I am a general education teacher ( I teach English as a foreign language) in secondary school. I have several classes with SEN students and only in one of them (22 students in total) there is an assistant in the class. She helps an autistic student to stay focused, do the tasks and basically encourages him to stay active and participate in lessons. In the same classroom I have an ADD student and a dyslexic and dysgraphic student. I have to cope with them on my one. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with such different needs and I would appreciate if someone was there to individualise at least some parts of lessons or show me how to meet the objectives in a successful way.

Liana - ITALY

2018-11-11 21:02:09 UTC

I'm a special education teacher in a secondary school. I find my colleagues collaborative. I would like more ITC tools expecially for students with SEN.

Ester G. - Italy

estergas89 — 2018-11-12 01:12:28 UTC

I am a general education teacher and I have often worked and collaborated with SEN teachers not only for planning lessons and strategies but also during the lessons in classes. Having a support in the conduction of educational activities is very useful and enriching. It should happen for a longer time and not only when there are students with serious impairment, but also to give more attention to minor learning difficulties or particular learning needs.

Mert, TURKEY

2018-11-12 09:58:10 UTC

I'm a general teacher in a secondary school. When I meet a SEN student, i try to solve the problem by myself.

I need more professional support and more teaching materials.

2018-11-12 12:22:14 UTC

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Ozrenka, Croatia

2018-11-12 13:51:48 UTC

I am a general education teacher (Biology and Science) in secondary school. I teach several classes with SEN students but not all of them have an assistant in the class. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed with all different needs of my students and I would really appreciate if someone was there to co-teach with me. Constant education and collaboration on how to achieve the objectives set for SEN students would be of great help. I miss the group planning in my school.

Anamarija, Croatia

2018-11-12 16:40:55 UTC

I am a general education teacher and for now I had great collaboration with parents, pedagogues, psychologists, SEN teachers, and I hope it will stay that way. I'm also pedagogue and in college I had SEN course, and I also like to learn so I attend lectures whenever is possible.

Marinela C. ,Romania

2018-11-12 17:29:25 UTC

I am a general teacher for preschool , I work with disabled children without a support teacher.

Diana, Timisoara-Romania

steindiana — 2018-11-12 17:40:47 UTC

I'm a general teacher for preschool. I have the teacher support class for the SEN child one day a week. I would like to have this help for as many days.

Isabella,Italy

isabellagraziabennardi — 2018-11-12 18:16:31 UTC

I'm a special needs teacher and I find my colleagues not really collaborative to SEN who aren't very included in the class.

Funda, Turkey

2018-11-12 18:57:32 UTC

I am an English Foreign language teacher in a primary school. I have got two classes and teach each class for ten hours. I have got two SEN students. We work collaboratively with the SEN coordinator and meet regularly. We discuss the plans, activities and exams for SEN students with the coordinator which is very helpful. My SEN students have assistant teachers “shadow teachers” and they are very supportive. One of the SEN teachers is a trained teacher and is very helpful during lesson time and outside classroom. However, the other assistant teacher has not a qualification as a teacher and is just there to look after the student. She is very helpful for the student’s basic needs; however, she can’t give the same support during lesson time. That’s why parents need to be more careful about choosing an assistant teacher for SEN students. This person must be trained as a SEN teacher (We face problems in teaching styles/ approaches/ perspective). The mainstream teacher prepares all the plans, activities and exams. It would be much more effective to have more SEN teachers at school and give teachers set time in their schedules for SEN planning.

Dubravka, Croatia

dubravka_s — 2018-11-12 20:30:01 UTC

I am an English teacher with 4 years of experience. As a relatively inexperienced teacher I often talk to my older collegues and enjoy learning from them. As any other person, when working with other people I want to feel free to ask questions. It's important not to feel judged.

Dubravka, Croatia

2018-11-12 20:52:48 UTC

I am a guidance counsellor in my school and the only member of supporting staff, but I d collaborate with one teacher assistant brought into the class to help with the regular program of one SEN students. We have an excellent communication because this person is capable of translating my suggestions into her special needs methods

Monika, Croatia

mhorkipavrlisek — 2018-11-12 20:55:05 UTC

I am a general teacher and I have a good relationship with my colleagues. We share our ideas, we help each other and try to resolve problems. I wish we all had more support from the experts.

Tamara, Croatia

2018-11-12 21:15:13 UTC

I am teacher of informatics in primary school. I am satisfied with collaboration with schools staff .

Jelic, Croatia

2018-11-12 21:45:36 UTC

I am a general ed teacher at a primary school. We don't have a special education teacher at our school, but I think he/she would be of a great help to us, as we are not educated enough to meet the needs of SEN students.

Atanasija Bilic, Croatia

2018-11-12 22:53:30 UTC

I am general education teacher in primary school. We have special education teacher and working and colaborating with her is of great help.

nimet figen türker TÜRKİYE

2018-11-13 07:02:55 UTC

I COUNTRY CONSULTING SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS ABOUT THE PROBLEMS OF SPECIAL NEEDS.

Murat BALCI, TURKEY

2018-11-13 08:17:11 UTC

This link must be. Because it is very important for the most SEN student, so that teachers, in interaction with each other, can build the most convenient training program for the student.

Tina, Croatia

2018-11-13 09:10:10 UTC

I´m general teacher. I teach music. I have great communication with parents and pedagogue. But I can see pedagog once a month and that is sometimes frustrating. There is no special education teacher except pedagog. Music is very good subject for all kind of students but sam my colleagues are very frustrated because they need more help.

Besa Albania

besa_zela — 2018-11-13 10:49:47 UTC

I am a head teacher , and interested for my students with special needs. In my school there are more problems regarding to infrastrucutre , also we can not have the help of our parents because they are very poor. I like the classroom that saw above .

LAtife Çeri,Turkey

2018-11-13 13:18:44 UTC

I am general education teacher(English) at a high school.Until this year,I dont know how to do and what to do.But tis year with the help of our school counsellor,we arrange some activities,plans and lessons according to the pupils need.

2018-11-13 16:14:25 UTC

I am a curricular teacher, I would like a greater interaction with support teachers especially I would like to find and share with them learning strategies alternative to the classic lesson.

2018-11-13 16:15:49 UTC

I am a curricular teacher, I would like a greater interaction with support teachers especially I would like to find and share with them learning strategies alternative to the classic lesson.

Giovnna V Italy

2018-11-13 16:15:52 UTC

I am a curricular teacher, I would like a greater interaction with support teachers especially I would like to find and share with them learning strategies alternative to the classic lesson.

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2018-11-13 16:16:00 UTC

I am a curricular teacher, I would like a greater interaction with support teachers especially I would like to find and share with them learning strategies alternative to the classic lesson.

Josip, Croatia

2018-11-13 18:44:00 UTC

I'm a school librarian and I, like all my colleagues need more education about SEN students, their needs and problems they have. I work in school where we don't have so many SEN students but when one appears we just manage, not knowing really what to do. Help is provided, but it's rarely sufficient.

I am a teacher for SEN students in a mainstream school. I would like to have more time to plan our activities with my teampartners, but I have so many of them, because I am responsible for 18 SEN-students in four classes.

2018-11-13 19:33:55 UTC

I'm a teacher for SEN students in a pubblic school. I deal with inclusione in my province

2018-11-13 19:45:03 UTC

I am a general education teacher and would like to have more help from special education teachers,when it comes to methods and strategies, tools and knowledge about SEN students.

2018-11-13 19:45:42 UTC

Sibel Yılmaz Turkey

2018-11-13 21:53:21 UTC

I am a general lesson teacher.I would like a greater interaction with support teachers especially I would like to find and share with them learning strategies alternative to the classic lesson

EZEL TUNA-BURSA/TURKEY

ezeltuna — 2018-11-14 07:34:37 UTC

I am a preschool teacher but I get support from special education teachers. I am trying to be useful to my inclusion student in my class.

Alessandra, Italy

2018-11-14 08:41:17 UTC

I'm a special education teacher and I think that is very difficult to collaborate with general teacher because they often don't consider us as teachers at their same level. Tey don't are flexible in organization of time, spaces, etc. Often happens that tests are planned during my free day or that the choice of tests is made without consulting me

Dorotea

2018-11-14 09:00:58 UTC

I am general education teacher in primary school. We have five hundred pupils and only one special education teacher. In every class we have from one to tree SEN children. I need more help for making SEN students curriculum.

Pınar Yıldırım Turkey

2018-11-14 10:39:55 UTC

I am teacher of informatics in primary school . I am satisfied with collaboration with school staff.

Cristina Pontes (Portugal)

Chrys_13 — 2018-11-14 13:03:12 UTC

I work with other tachers and they understand special needs. We work with them and multidisciplinar team (psychologist, social assitants, doctors, educational community, …..).

Nicoleta Romania

nicoletamilitar — 2018-11-14 13:53:23 UTC

Nicoleta Romania

nicoletamilitar — 2018-11-14 13:53:53 UTC

I am a general teacher and I work with SEN students in two of the classes I have this year. In the past I had more students and it was frustrating that I was the only one who had to deal with them. Later, a young counsellor came to our school and she helped me a lot in understating the documents that I needed to write for my SEN students and the types of strategies I needed to use.

Ivana, Cro

2018-11-14 15:17:21 UTC

I'm a general teacher and must say I'm coping with a lot of problems when working with SEN children. We didn't have much preparation on how to work with them so I am not sure at all if I work correctly. I hope I do. We do have a counsellor in our school but she often doesn't have time. I share my ideas with other teachers and we all do our best.

Marina A., Croatia

marina_antolkovic — 2018-11-14 15:24:03 UTC

I am a general education teacher. There should be more collaboration between all of us involved in education of all students.

bondargladiola — 2018-11-14 16:12:00 UTC

Express your needs Define whether you are a general or special education teacher, and express your needs when collaborating wi

Bondar Gladiola, Borca, Rom

bondargladiola — 2018-11-14 16:16:33 UTC

I work with other teachers, with them and multidisciplinar team - psychologist, speech therapist, doctor, social assitants...

Pixie

2018-11-14 17:32:44 UTC

I am a general teacher but have experience in children with special educational needs

Paola, Italy

2018-11-14 18:21:37 UTC

I'm a special needs teacher and I often collaborate with my colleagues even if they are not always able to deal with SEN students... It's always a long process to involve everybody.

Maria Antonietta Italy

mariaantonietta_caravelli — 2018-11-14 18:37:55 UTC

I teach in the 3rd class of primary school, for 6 years I have been a teacher of support for autistic children and children with hearing loss. Since I became a class teacher I have always had children with difficulties and I have always been sensitive to exclusivity. What amazed my colleagues, teachers of support, was that I planned with them the exchange of roles and I was actively interested in the pupils. Now in the class where I work there are dyslexic, dysgraphic children, and also an Albanian girl inserted this year who does not know Italian and English at all ... I do not take advantage of the help of a supporting colleague, there are hours of coexistence but few. I try to motivate them and interest them as best I can with inclusive platforms like etwinning, small group work, circle time, coding
However, whatever the difficulties slowly it is always good to try to keep in mind the obtribes set and reach them slowly
http://svel.to/106v

Bianca, Romania.

bianca_igf — 2018-11-14 18:57:38 UTC

I am a special education teacher, although I graduated Psychology. I work in the multidisciplinary team, along the speech therapist, psychologist, etc. I would like for the people that don't respond directly of the children's discipline to get involved more.

Ros

2018-11-14 20:01:16 UTC

There are many students with special needs in my classes but non everywhere we can be supported by effective tools.

sengulbaris33 — 2018-11-15 13:13:55 UTC

ŞENGÜL BARIŞ
Iam quidance counsellor in my school and I help other teachers.

l am a general educationn teacher

melikeaybars — 2018-11-15 13:51:35 UTC

Ioana Fedeles, Romania

ioana6333 — 2018-11-15 17:25:18 UTC

I am a general education teacher and I ask for help from the psychologist and I would like people who do not respond to children's discipline to be more involved.

Fanita Milišić, Hrvatska

2018-11-15 22:48:12 UTC

I am a general education teacher
Like everyone, I need a support of special education teacher. In my school, I find it in a psychologist, pedagogue and teacher who works at the site of the special education teacher. They are wonderful and help me in every opportunity, especially in curriculum development and in moments when my SEN student has a bad day and cannot stay in the same classroom with other students.

Daniela, Croatia

2018-11-17 21:08:59 UTC

I'm a general teacher but Ihave lot's of experience in work with SEN students. I work and I often collaborate with my colleagues and multidisciplinar teamschool.

Nadia, Italy

2018-11-18 19:02:30 UTC

I am a general teacher and I am accoustomed to work with special education teachers.
I think that communication and collaboration between general and special education teachers is vital to the success of special needs students

The biggest change for educators is sharing the goals, decisions, classroom instruction, responsibility for students, assessment of student learning, problem solving, and classroom management. A cooperative teaching is essential with SEN students.

The distinctive feature of cooperative teaching, which differs from earlier approaches, is that it is direct collaboration with the general education and special education teachers working together in the same classroom most of the day.

An effective team of teachers will work together as equal partners in interactive relationships, with both involved in all aspects of planning, teaching, and assessment. Areas for this collaboration will include curricula and instruction, assessment and evaluation, and classroom management and behaviour.

Carolina Palazzo - Padova/Italy

carolina_palazzosaraceno — 2018-11-18 21:55:08 UTC

I am a general teacher in primary schoolI but I have experience in work with children with special educational needs. I want to be useful to my inclusion student in my classroom and work together with special teachers.

Ana, Portugal

2018-11-18 23:39:27 UTC

I am a special education teacher.
I teach students of secondary school, ages between 15 and 19. They don't attend most of the regular classes. They are being prepared for daily / adult life and spend most of the time in a classroom where is possible to make different activities. I'm not refering to learning disabilities but to severe learning or physical ones. We are two teachers in the same room, but we make different groups according to their abbilities, interests and subjects being taught. Having a colleague there all the time allows us to share practices, materials, ask for the other opinion about activities that are being prepared, students needs, evolution, etc.

Maria, Italy

maria_pesce — 2018-11-19 21:30:17 UTC

I am a special education teacher.The biggest change for educators is in deciding to share the role that has traditionally been individual: to share the goals, decisions, classroom instruction, responsibility for students, assessment of student learning, problem solving, and classroom management. The teachers must begin to think of it as "our" class. But from my experience is necessary to replace the current model based on the support of the disabled person being provided exclusively by the support teacher, in favour of a model of “broad support” given by the class teachers, peers, other figures (e.g. educators, assistants), auxiliarystaff (janitors, canteen staff, etc.), and through the organization of the classroom, via aids, etc. This aspect is too relevant with general teachers who do not believe they have adequate training to face an educational dialogue with the pupil. Further difficulties arise if one considers the specialist teachers as “the” teachers of the students with disabilities, or think that they are less skilled and have fewer abilities than general teachers or if these same specialists are helping to adhere, to a “medical model” that requires them to claim sole responsibility for caring for the student, as holders of specific technical skills, thus, isolating themselves withinexclusive relationships in order to “heal” the students.

Ebru, Turkiye

ebrudemirezen06 — 2018-11-19 21:42:58 UTC

I'm a general teacher.

Aija, Latvia

2018-11-20 12:51:32 UTC

I am a Montessori teacher at a preschool. I work together with another colleague of mine. Even with a special needs child in our group, we don't have specialist support inside the school. I feel that with better personnel training on SEN we could do our job better.

Hatice, Turkey

2018-11-20 21:33:46 UTC

I'm a preschool teacher. Groups do not provide staff support for children with special needs.

Adriana,Italy

2018-11-20 22:02:51 UTC

I work as general teacher in a secondary school. The most difficult thing I find is to share my best practice with my collegue special need teacher: to plan a common programme is not so easy, as well to cope with the standard the subject is asked to reach. Every scool year is a real challenge where collaboration is the key word!

Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

2018-11-20 22:46:56 UTC

When you work in a school, we need to be all united, one helping the other, there is no individualism, because we are in the classroom and if there is something, we will need help,
In the afternoon class we have a student who sometimes gives convulsive seizures, is unpredictable, but it happens.
Teamwork strengthens us because we are not alone, we are all united to offer the best.
We need to be aware of all the details.

Manea Mirela, Romania

maneamirela430 — 2018-11-20 23:30:31 UTC

In more developed countries, the school hires teacher assistants working in class with the teacher. It is very important that there is good communication and preliminary planning of work between the teacher and the assistant. However, the presence of an assistant during classroom classes may be an inhibiting element for the student with special requirements who may have detentions in active participation in classes if the lessons are not organized so that each student feels part of it of the class group.
and in Romania this is done, but at a much lower level, the specialized staff being insufficient.

Sevinç Terzioğlu, Turkey

2018-11-21 09:54:48 UTC

I am a general education teacher but I have some SEN students that 2 hours a week we conduct lessons with them according to their speacial needs and curriculum. Also another teachers from another branches tutor them weekly, too. From my point of view there must be a strong collaboration and communication between teachers because by this way we can organize complementary activities for SEN students and it makes them learn more easily and quickly.

Ermita

efelgueiras1 — 2018-11-21 15:23:41 UTC

At the moment, in Portugal, there is still a strong negative reaction to the presence of students with great barriers, in the classroom. The teachers are exhausted, discouraged, with a great workload and few conditions and ... I fear the unknown also weighs heavily. However, from my experience I can say that some way has been made. For this, there has to be a great team spirit, collaboration, positive thinking, resilience and calm. As cost to say there is no impossibility and we have to try to give our best. In this ambience I have been able to mobilize several teachers and carry out work that is gratifying for all and especially beneficial to the student. It is a continum work that requires a lot of dialogue and reflection on what was done and what is appropriate to do the next day. I think the great barrier we have is the lack of teachers, as they are asking us to build an inclusive school, but we have fewer and fewer teachers and bureaucratic requests continue to grow. And it creates the exhaustion and the discouragement. But everything happens when we are with the student.

Eunice, Portugal

2018-11-21 15:29:06 UTC

I work with general and special education teacher. As a psychologist i need to explain the importance of collaborative work but sometimes i see it's so difficult for the other person to see the other perpsective and that's a barrier.
As for the others needs, i see that they need help especially with the SEN students, but with the expectation that it as to be that type of help and not another, wich makes the work difficult.

Goncagül OCAK

2018-11-21 20:05:00 UTC

Mersin/Türkiye
I am not a special education teacher and I need methods and techniques for special educational needs.

I think there isn't enough cooperation with special education teachers. I don't think that's enough

Priscila, Portugal

2018-11-21 22:39:00 UTC

As a Psychologist, i need training in SEN, along the training

Amalia Sole. Itay

2018-11-22 20:47:40 UTC

I am not a special education teacher but I believe collaboration between all teachers is the most important practise to achieve inclusive education and to be able to help students with special needs or disabilities.
I am an architect, but I studied pedagogical counseling and groups management also to improve my professional knownledge in special needs matter (with a master at University Suor Orsola Benincasa).
This study was very useful to me to work with more experience in teaching and sharing my experience and many tools with other teachers of my school.
This let to me to plan good practise and actions, using laboratory teaching to improve skills and use of emotional mind in every matter.

Marina, Lithuania.

skobarkav — 2018-12-10 15:05:56 UTC

I am a general education teacher, but I have 2-3 SEN students mostly in every class. I write a special studying programme for them and they work together with other students.

Andreea Done, Romania

yahmid_andreea — 2019-01-11 18:35:23 UTC

i am a general teacher, middle school and high school

Nurten

isakarakis — 2019-02-16 16:55:45 UTC

I think primary teachers are harder to work with.

Vesna,Serbia

vesna_jaquet — 2019-04-29 14:46:57 UTC

I am a general education teacher and this academic year I have 7 SEN students from the age of 11-15. I even have 2 SEN 11 year old students in the same class. My greatest challenge is making the inclusive classroom work in practice, make it productive, motivate students, involve everyone in the learning prossess and I've been training myself a lot to be able to make my work better for all. these courses help a lot. They are practical and very true when talking about SEN students' needs.

2019-05-07 17:05:59 UTC

I am a teacher assistant with one SEN student. Teaching with a SEN student is hard a bit challenging but we always asure that she didnt feel different from others.

Anca. Romania

2019-08-07 11:19:15 UTC

What I need most as a teacher is to have an efficient collaboration with parents.

2020-01-31 09:08:16 UTC

Daria,Luna,Aleksandra i Nikolina
Što je glagolski vid?

China

2020-02-20 14:26:34 UTC

I am a learning support assistant. I hope my colleagues could openly communicate with each other. We could share thinkings in time to improve our works.

Tuğçe E., Turkey

2020-03-19 15:03:04 UTC

I need an effective plan and different materials for gifted or talented students.

Menchie, Philippines

2020-04-09 10:41:12 UTC

I am a special education teaher.
Newly graduated teachers are not ready to embrace inclusion. Need training to be confident in performing the task.
We lack the facilities and manpower to accommodate other learners who are excited to be part of our program.

Arlene,UAE

arleneterencio — 2020-04-28 14:55:12 UTC

Im a ABA Therapist, but I am working in mainstream school. So as a therapist, I make sure at the beginning i asses my student, to know their level. Mostly as general educators, in this country they rely to the therapist as they cannot handle the student. its very challenging as i need to modify what he can do, and see how far he will go

2020-06-06 11:05:18 UTC

I am a general teacher but I would like to continually develop my knowledge on SEND to be able to provide the most effective and up to date practice that will best benefit my students.

India

2020-11-15 06:50:57 UTC

I am a general teacher but I would like to continually develop my knowledge on SEND to be able to provide the most effective and up to date practice that will best benefit my students.

2021-02-14 18:50:15 UTC

As a physical therapist most of the children we work with are special needs who need assistance in one or more are of their life. Within the school system i feel sometimes it can be hard to work with other teachers when having to pull the child out of class for therapy or when therapy might interfere with class work. There is both positive and negative collaborations with other professions in the school.

Li, Philippines

2021-09-28 01:16:22 UTC

I think for me as a future special need’s educator. Collaboration is very important for us to see what the child needs. We have to a lot time to talk. I think the most needed enable for us to communicate well is participation and willingness to listen whatever the outcomes.

2021-09-29 09:42:09 UTC

I am currently still just a student but I am an aspiring educator. However, while interviewing a working special needs education teacher, she shared her experience working with other professionals in an Individualized Education Program. One struggle she faced was in working with people who acted like "know-it-alls" and made many suggestions but were not the ones who were responsible for implementation. She stated how her experience of good collaboration was based on the sharing of responsibilities in order to reach the different goals. She also highlighted the importance of good communication between the teacher and parents in order to manage parents expectations. It seems to me that being considerate towards others is one of the most important factors to collaboration.

Co Teaching

2021-11-11 20:28:51 UTC

We have two teachers in the classroom who each teach two subjects but also have special education on stand by incase they need help with their special education students