This study examines the effect of storytelling on class participation behaviors of students with mild intellectual disability as an instructional method for social science. The study deals with Practical Economics as an example subject of social scien...
This study examines the effect of storytelling on class participation behaviors of students with mild intellectual disability as an instructional method for social science. The study deals with Practical Economics as an example subject of social science.
The conceptual framework adopted for the study is drawn from two characteristics of students with mild intellectual disability that they are hard to concentrate on but easy to get distracted due to multisensory stimulation. This is the reason way the instructional method of Practical Economics for students with intellectual disability should be changed to give interesting opportunities as they are able to understand, or to develop the ability to think as an economic way.
The study was conducted an instructional strategy of storytelling method for social science with three random students with intellectual disability in a special care class of a public high school in S city, Gyeonggi-do. To observe their class participation behaviors, the multiple probe design across the subjects was applied as a single subject research. This research investigated with three time period of a class participation behavior: baseline period; intervention period through storytelling class; maintenance period. Each storytelling class of social science was reconstructed with proper consideration of individual characteristics and academic status of each student. During the experiment, the rate of action for class participation was recorded and measured based on a behavior occurrence chart.
The result of study indicates that storytelling method for social science class increases the frequency of class participation behaviors of students with mild intellectual disability. The number of class participation behaviors of all three subjects increased in the end compare to the baseline period.
The finding of the study, therefore, suggests that storytelling would be an effective instructional method for social science in the light of encouragement of class participation behaviors of high school students with intellectual disability for two analyses on the research: a) a social science class with storytelling method affects the increase of the number of class participation behavior with positive effect; b) all of the subjects rather actively participated in the class with the storytelling method than the class without it.