Cao Bang: Applying personal education plan for students with disabilities in the school year 2021 - 2022

he overall goal of the project is helping children with disabilities to have an inclusive environment and have access to quality education. Therefore, when conducting the input survey of the project, it was found that teachers in preschools and primary schools did not have the skills to develop personal education plans suitable for children with disabilities, no methods and teaching skills for children with disabilities. Schools and teachers are still confused in assessing learning outcomes for children with disabilities. This has greatly affected the ability of children with learning disabilities to participate in learning. In order to improve this situation, within the framework of the project, education managers and core teachers in the project area have been improved through training courses providing knowledge and skills on personal education plans for children with disabilities, teaching methods and supporting children with learning disabilities to integrate. At the same time, in order to promote the application of knowledge and skills to education managers and core teachers, technical supervision and support activities are carried out periodically by experts from the National Center for Special Education, Provincial Departments of Education & Training and Provincial Department/Center for The Education of Children with Disabilities.

Students listen attentively through the teacher's story in the classroom

After these training classes, in the 2020-2021 school year, 100% of students with disabilities aged 5-14 years are enrolled in preschools and primary schools in the project to develop a personal education plan tailored to the abilities and needs of each student. Each individual education plan is tailored to each child with disabilities to support teachers who can guide the content, methods and forms of organizing child care and education activities in schools, at home and in the community to achieve specific learning goals.

Receiving the positive results of the project in inclusive education, Cao Bang Department of Education and Training has directed all Education and Training Departments in the province to start applying the personal education plan template for students with disabilities from the 2021-2022 school year. Based on the direction of the Department, in the 2021-2022 school year, more than 60 students with disabilities are studying at the Department of Education of Children with Disabilities - Cao Bang Provincial Continuing Education Center has been developing its own personal education plan.

Experts and teachers meet to discuss assessment of teaching quality results carried out by the Personal Education Plan template for students with disabilities

The project hopes that these positive signals will be the motivation for inclusive education for children with disabilities to be more spread, supporting many teachers, children with disabilities and schools in implementing inclusive education for children with disabilities.