Correctional pedagogy is an area of pedagogical science that develops methods of teaching individuals with socio-psychological and physical disabilities. In order to work in this field, you need special knowledge, good education and great diligence.
The tasks of correctional pedagogy
The discipline itself arose in response to the need of society to develop ways of influencing problem children. In conditions when both parents are constantly at work, the child is actually left to himself, which often leads to asocial, deviant behavior. In such cases, the methods of correctional pedagogy are directly related to the techniques of special psychology.
For children who are lagging behind in development or have any physiological defects (for example, speech impairment), special training and education algorithms are also needed. Moreover, it is necessary to develop not only teaching methods, but also methods of monitoring the studied material, since a child who is far from always lagging behind in development can adequately answer whether the material has been mastered. One of the tasks of correctional pedagogy is the diagnosis of disorders and difficulties in teaching and upbringing of children. It is important that this diagnosis is carried out in a timely manner in order to have time to take action in time.
How can you master correctional pedagogy?
First of all, you need to know that the study of correctional pedagogy is based on several principles. The first of them is the use of a system of scientific research methods in the work of a correctional teacher. It is thanks to them that the necessary level of competence is achieved, which allows you to develop a training program for the child. Research is carried out in the child's family, at school, and even after school in the course of a person's further, already independent, life. The second principle follows from the first - this is the principle of the complexity of studying people with disabilities. It allows you to take data from different sources - educators, psychologists, teachers, doctors - and compare them with each other.
Research can take many different forms: observation, survey, conversation, questionnaire, activity analysis, etc. After analyzing the research results, it is worth determining which method is best for teaching and raising a child. This can be educational and cognitive activity (in the form of lectures, visual demonstrations, stories, conversations, experiments), which is certainly accompanied by motivation (games, encouragement, censure, etc.). An important point is the timely control over the education of an atypical child. It manifests itself in checking what has been learned orally or in writing.
