The purpose of this study is to search opinions of elementary school teachers on adaptive skills required when the children with disabilities transferred from kindergarten to elementary school in order to search what adaptive skills to be preferential...
The purpose of this study is to search opinions of elementary school teachers on adaptive skills required when the children with disabilities transferred from kindergarten to elementary school in order to search what adaptive skills to be preferentially taught at kindergarten.
These subjects in order to achieve this purpose are as belows
First, what is the adaptive skill area to be preferentially required on the adaptive skill area. Second, What is the recognition on adaptive skill area of elementary school teachers.
The results of this research are as belows:
First, Preferentially required adaptive skill area when the children with disabilities transferred to elementary school is considered to self-support skill, while it has mentioned lowest priority in subject achievement skill. The research has mentioned that the preferentially required skill is writing and reading of one's self name in subject achievement skill area, eating food oneself in independent skill area, making a request for other people in social interaction skill area, taking a chair during the operation time in participation skill area on a group operation and responding in communication skill area.
Second, It is not shown statistically significant distinction at all areas as a result of searching on existence of experience on the children with disabilities, study and training on special education, gender of teachers, in order to search a recognition of elementary school teachers on adaptive skill of children with disabilities when they transfer to elementary school.
As a result of this research, It has showed that the most important thing is to be required self-support skills such as meal, dress or undress oneself, urine and feces.
Coaching area that a kindergarten teacher who transfer children with disabilities to elementary school cares for is self-support skill. And it is considered that it is the most basic necessary condition to be self-support skill in order to perform educational requirement and adapt new environment after children's transferring to elementary school. And also, the result of this study presents to reflect responsibilities of elementary school teachers who must operate integrated and normalization education that is accepted as the spirit of the times.
Even though this paper is limited to be generalized, now that is restricted to some general class and integrated class teachers who serve public elementary schools in Chungnam Province, It has some significances which present reference materials in kindergarten teachers' educating and knowing the priority of adaptive skills that elementary school teachers who teach adaptive skills to the children with disabilities require in a integrated class.