The reality of classroom environment for students with disabilities in the inclusive schools from special and general teacher's perspective

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Department of Special Education - College of Education - King Khalid University - Kingdom Saudi Arabia

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 the study aimed at finding out the reality of the classroom environment for people with from both special and general education teacher's perspective. The sample of the study consisted of 100 teachers in the primary school teachers. Descriptive analytical method was used with  questionnaire as a data collection tool. The results showed that the percentage of teachers views about the current statues of classroom  environment for students with disabilities is equal to 74.5%, indicating that the reality of the classroom environment for students with disabilities is very good. In terms the proposed scenario for the ideal classroom environment from the point of view of the teachers comes in the following order: the existence of a joint plan between  general and special education teachers throughout the year was in the first place. The second component was the availability of teaching tools, which eliminates the student's conversion to the resource room. The third component was the creation of environmental factors suitable for the class, in the fourth place was the component on the existence of special education teacher in support of the students in the classroom, and ranked fifth is the existence of strategies to modify  behavior in  classroom.

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