The Visually Impaired Children Teachers’ needs For Teaching Skills Exploratory Field Study

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the visually impaired children teachers’ needs for the teaching skills, and knowing the extent to which their needs for these skills is related to gender and visual ability variables (sighted, partially sighted and blind). The researchers had prepared a questionnaire of teachers’ needs for teaching skills, where distributed to a sample of (102) dispatching on 7 willayas of Algeria (Laghouat, Batna, Biskra, Algeries, Constantine, Bordj Bou Arreridj, El-Oued). The results of the study showed that there were low capabilities of Teaching skills among teachers in all dimensions of the questionnaire; it was also found that there were no statistically significant differences in the needs for Teaching skills due to the sex and visual ability (sighted, partially sighted and blind).