SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER
To become a special education teacher you have to study in University 4-6 years. Children who you teach are
autistic or disabled children. The best in this work are children and free teaching. In normal schools students have a
thight timetable. In this work it's not serious if a child doesn't learn in few days. Every children have their own
special needs and sometimes it's difficult to adapt different methods to teach children.
At the school it's learning ALL THE TIME. When the children go out they are learning to put the zipper closed and
wear the woolly hat on. Dining is a lesson too! Then children are learning to hold a spoon in their hands and take
food from the desk. The moving technology is difficult for teachers. They have to plan programs to ipads and
computers. Schools have handmaids to help learning: computers, ipads, pictures, pcs-pictures (the picture
communication symbols), palpation books, music, different sensory stimulation stuff (brushes..). Colours and lines
are important to students. Every child has his or her own assistant in lessons.
NORMAL SCHOOL DAY
Morning assembly: who is at the school, what kind of weather is it, what weekday is it..
Lesson 1: everybody has their own projects.
Dining...
Lesson 2: swimming, art, music, sport or home economics
Outdoor activities..
"It's so lovely to know that every child wants to come to school and likes to learn something new!"
The teacher who I interviewed teaches 3-6 grades.
Different brushes...
Sensory stimulation room
Anna Airaksinen Finland
Pcs-pictures