Learning and Teaching are changing.
The world that students with special needs live in is changing.
How do kids learn to deal with that changing world?
Have you ever been frustrated with a computer, phone service, ATM, mp3 player or website ?
Have you ever been frustrated with the pace of change ?
How do students with special needs fit into this world ?
How do carers make choices for their charges as they cope with this world?
These are questions that teachers in SSPs have to deal with increasingly. Teachers who forget this are possibly open to claims that they are asleep at the wheel, but possibly they have been left behind by thinly spread resources. There are many demands on all teachers in contemporary classrooms and to this is now added the pace of technological change. Peripherals, software, updates, databases, reporting, hardware problems, hardware costs, hardware repairs, time-share tech tools, networking, online resources, retraining and program familiarisation all need consideration within school even before a teacher sits down and begins to write a sequence of deliverable lessons.
These needs are compounded by the need to adapt curriculum content and physical access to technology to make it work.
In a connected world, disconnection and failure to change are accentuated.
Special need schools have to avoid being sleepy wards of yesteryear or cultural backwaters in order to do the best by the kids.
School staff do this job against this changing background whilst maintaining the basic skills and competancies that our kids need to get on in the world after school.
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