Teaching Mathematics for children with SEN – good practice examples
Keywords:
disabilities, inclusive education, Mathematics, special educational needs (SEN), teaching.Abstract
The inclusion of children with special educational needs in the mainstream schools is a process that involves a lot of changes both at the structural level of education and at instructional level. Teaching Mathematics, no matter of the educational level, requires good competences regarding the planning, the development or the evaluation activities in the class. In this context, those teachers who succeed at making a good practice started with a best knowledge of their students and with a differentiated planning of those activities developed with the children with special educational needs. The main purpose of our study is to identify some good practice models of teaching Mathematics to children with special educational needs. We tried to identify what are the main educational strategies used by teachers in their activities in order to prevent or to fight against scholar failure of the children with special educational needs (SEN).References
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