Abstract:

The objective of this study is to examine the effectiveness of individualized teaching materials on bricklaying skills prepared with the direct teaching method in terms of reflections of ergotherapy on vocational education. Bricklaying skills were taught with direct teaching method to four students with mild mental disability, who attended the 2016-2017 education-teaching year at Duzce Special Education Vocational Education Centre. Information was collected from the student, parents and teachers with semi-structured interview. Data of a period of one year of ergotherapy was collected in the study. Evaluations of the student, student’s parent, teacher and the observer were taken into account in the bricklaying work analysis, joint evaluation of the evaluators were cross-matched and reliability of the outputs were found at high level. Analysis of the data revealed that the success in lime mortar preparation and bricklaying, taught with the direct teaching method was over 80%. Based on the outputs of the study, it was concluded that individualized material presented to the children with mental disability is effective.

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