342 Appendix-E

INTERVIEW SCHEDULE FOR TEACHERS

Name of Interviewee:.Designation: Name and Address of the School:.. 1. Could you please tell us a bit about your understanding of what inclusive education means within an education context? 2. Have you ever had a child or children with special needs who experienced barriers to learning in the inclusive classroom set up? 3. What type of barriers to learning were those? 4. How do you go about identifying children who experience barriers to learning? 5. What do you do when you are confronted with learners who experience barriers to learning? 6. Have you received special training regarding Education of children with special needs or any form of training that enable you to identify learners with learning barriers? 7. May you please explain how you identify the barriers to learning faced by children with special needs? 8. Tell me about your challenges and successes in implementing inclusive education in the classroom? 9. What would you say about the classroom environment in which you implement inclusive education? 10. How do you deal with learners who are experiencing learning difficulty within the classroom? 11. Tell me about your experience within the classroom. 12. Can you discuss inequalities that you have experience within the classroom between teachers and learners and amongst learners. 13. What do you understand as being the reason(s) for inclusive education? 14. Describe the changes you underwent in terms of your values and your approach to education as a result of implementation of inclusive education practices. 15. How was the change to a classroom having children with diversified backgrounds are being facilitated by your management team? 16. Do you personally believe that a child with special needs should be in a mainstream classroom? Please motivate your answer. 17. What are the challenges and stressors you experience in terms of understanding and working with the new curriculum which is supposed to be designed to allow educators to teach inclusively. What are the practical challenges and stressors to do with curriculum delivery that you experience in the classroom as you encounter diversity? 18. List or explain the nature of the five barriers you find most challenging, amongst the children in your classroom.

343 19. What other professional development or training have you received for the new curriculum and for the change brought about with inclusive education? 20. What support do you receive from the school and the district in respect of collaborative support for the teaching of children with special needs? In which ways were these either adequate and empowering or inadequate and inappropriate? 21. What strategies suggested which allow for inclusive education, do you employ in the classroom? 22. What are the factors you consider necessary, or the variables which should be in place, for successful inclusive education? 23. Do you find on the whole the parent involvement in inclusive education practices is satisfactory? 24. Thinking of your experiences, please mention the view of parents in respect of inclusive education. Discuss the view of those with children experiencing barriers to learning as well as the view of those with children who do not, towards inclusive education. 25. How your has made changes to make the environment within your school welcoming and affirming of all cultures, abilities and languages? 26. What are the innovative and collaborative student centered practices in your school or in the classroom for children with special needs? 27. What are the positive aspects that you consider have come about through inclusive education? And negative aspects? 28. Please provide examples of good practices you have been adopting in meeting the needs of children with special needs? 29. In which directorate do you work and what are the core functions of this directorate? 30. What improvements are needed for the assurance of quality inclusive education practices with respect to a. Physical Facilities b. Instructional Materials c. Training of teachers d. Facilitators Salary etc. e. Curriculum guidelines f. Financing for inclusive education. g. Monitoring and Supervision