Cómo valoran y usan las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) los profesores de alumnos con necesidades educativas especiales (NEE)

Abstract

This article deals with different aspects in relation to how compulsory education teachers with students with SEN (both support teachers and regular classroom teachers) use and value the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in their work.The research consists of a qualitative design involving ten schools (from Castilla y León) where semi-structured interviews were carried out to learn the relevant aspects in the value that teachers concede to ICT; times and venues for its use;curriculum areas in which they are used; type of tasks they are used in, etc.Both the preparation required by these teachers to employ such resources in the classroom and how well the schools were equipped was also analysed.The data obtained show that teachers highly value ICT, although these resources are not used enough owing to different reasons: insufficient resources, scant teacher training and lack of strategies for integrating them into the curriculum. In fact,the use and integration of these media appear to be scarce in the teaching staff everyday work.