The purpose of this study is to find the realities of integrated music class and the level of music teachers understanding about it, and to provide data to it through figuring out what the problem of integrated music class is and whether there are imp...
The purpose of this study is to find the realities of integrated music class and the level of music teachers understanding about it, and to provide data to it through figuring out what the problem of integrated music class is and whether there are improvement plans for it.
The questionnaire was made, altered, and made up for based on the precedent researches and was given to music teachers who teach the students in the integrated class in Daejeon city and Chungnam province. The questionnaire was made of three areas, which are understanding about music integrated class, the realities of music classes, and problems with classes and improvement plans for them. The questionnaire was answered by 102 music teachers and analyzed.
According to the analysis of the results,
First, music teachers have positive understanding about integrated music class. They answered normal students have positive thought about it and think it natural. They also answered it helps the normal students understand the Students with Needs for Special Education and helps the them improve their adaptation to the society. However, this reveals some problems because the class helps them only adapt to society, not achieve the aim of integrated music class, which is to develop musical ability and creativity.
Second, the result shows integrated music class and performance assessment for the Students with Needs for Special Education are carried out in the same way as for the normal students, and individual education and assessment are not carried out. This means that music teachers acknowledge the necessity of the individual education and assessment, but they dont put those into practice due to the restricted circumstances. This causes some problems to integrated music class. The Students with Needs for Special Education prefer to sing and they dont like understanding and creative work.
Third, the music performance of the students with Needs for Special Education is the best in singing and not good in playing musical instruments, creative work, appreciation and understanding of music.
Fourth, the reason why music as a subject is appropriate to the integrated class is that students like to sing and listen to music. And the reason why teachers think music is inappropriate to it is that it is difficult to teach individually because music is an activity-focused class. The problem with facilities is the lack of teaching aids. The problem with individual teaching is a number of students in class and their different level of disorder. Finally, the urgent problem which should be solved for integrated music class is to improve music teachers expertise.
Based on the results of the research, it was found that music teachers have a positive understanding about the integrated class but they dont teach the Students with Needs for Special Education individually. To solve this problem, teachers efforts to improve the expertise with special education, financial support of school, effective curriculum and administrative support of the educational authorities are needed.