THE ATTITUDES OF GENERAL EDUCATION TEACHERS TOWARDS THE CHALLENGING BEHAVIOURS OF STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Introduction
What is Challenging Behavior?

What are Challenging behaviors? What are the attitudes of General Education Teachers?

Schematic Diagram
INDEPENDENT VARIABLES Teachers Attitudes Frustration Anger Exhaustion Upset DEPENDENT VARIABLES Challenging Behaviors Aggression Physical Aggression Verbal Aggression Non-Compliance

Statement of the Problem

What is/are the most challenging behaviors of students with special needs as determined by the researchers

Aggression

Physical Aggression Verbal Aggression

Non-compliance

What are the attitudes of the general education teachers in terms of:

Aggression

Physical Aggression Verbal Aggression

Non-compliance

Hypotheses

Problems 1 and 2 are hypotheses-free.

Significance of the Study

To the administration, To the community To the general education teachers To the SpEd Society, To the researchers

Limitation of the Study

This study is limited to the general education teachers towards the challenging behaviors that may affect their attitudes.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Research Design A descriptive research Quantitative Participants General Education Teachers Teaches from Grade 1-6 At least 5 years in service. Setting City Central School, Cagayan De Oro City

Dependent Measures

Teachers Attitude
Frustration
Anger Exhaustion Upset

Response Always Sometimes Rarely Never

Range 3.70 4.00 2.80 3.69 1.90 2.79 1.00 1.89

Statistical Instruments/Procedure

Frequencies and Percentages. Mean

Results
What is/are the most challenging behaviors of students with special needs as determined by the researchers?

51.82% says that verbal aggression is the most challenging behavior. It goes to shows that calling out of names, violent and vulgar words, shouting at somebody, and side comments are the most challenging behaviors they had determined.

What are the attitudes of the general education teachers?

Under physical aggression, it is evident that teacher have more of an Anger attitude towards these behaviors. Non-compliance predicts to upset the teachers. Under the verbal aggression behaviour, the attitude of the teacher that are most likely shown are the anger and being upset.

Conclusion
The occurrence of the challenging behaviors of the students causes the teachers most likely being upset and angry. The Physical aggression of students was determined to cause teachers to be angry; verbal Aggression causes teachers to be angry and upset; and the non-compliance of the students generally causes the teachers to be upset.