제7차 특수학교 교육과정 적정성 평가-기본 교육 과정 교과 교육내용을 중심으로-

Abstract

This study was to evaluate the adaption of the basic curriculum in the 7th special school curriculum and to find out the efficiency of its application. The survey was performed to 159 teachers in the special schools and special classrooms. The result of this study showed that teachers had difficulties in teaching subject matters because of low availability of textbook as a core of the curriculum and few teaching materials for each student's level of ability, and that although there were somewhat difference in every subject matter, the amount and the difficulty level of teaching contents were in general appropriate to them. The requisite conditions for individualized lesson were in turn found to be the reduction of students, a qualified teaching-learning assisted materials, and provision of various textbooks suited for the students' abilities. The special school teachers were conscious of the necessity to restructure the curriculum, and thus managed the lesson with the restructured curriculum suited for the characteristics of schools and students. The restructuring methods mainly used was found to be the substitution of the contents. According to the results of the study, the various level of the textbooks and the teaching contents for each subject matter should be made up for the students with diverse needs in the next revision of the curriculum, and finally a good quality of teaching-learning assisted materials for the optimization of the curriculum should be developed and disseminated.