TEACHING GUIDE FOR TEACHERS OF SPECIALIZED EDUCATIONAL SERVICE: MUSIC AS A PROMOTER OF MATHEMATICS LEARNING FOR PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES
music, intellectual disabilities, mathematics
The present study has as its central focus the use of music for learning mathematics for people with intellectual disabilities (ID), here focused on as a clinical condition characterized by the presence of deficits in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior, the latter expression as conceptual adaptive skills, social and practical aspects and limitations must be present before the age of 18. Given the high number of students with intellectual disabilities, enrolled in the regular state education network in Rio Grande do Norte, it is necessary to understand and intervene so that they reach their potential for developing and learning mathematics, minimizing the difficulties they face. This work arises from the following problem: How to guide teachers from Specialized Educational Services - AEE to use music to enhance mathematics learning for people with intellectual disabilities? As a general objective of this research, we developed a didactic sequence to help AEE teachers use music as a strategy for learning mathematics for students with Intellectual Disabilities - ID; specific objectives are foreseen: evaluate the effectiveness of the didactic sequence that uses music as a tool for learning mathematics for students with ID; produce videos with guidance on the proposed activities and, finally, the construction of the didactic guide, consisting of the didactic sequence and the set of videos. The didactic sequence will be developed based on Galperin's Theory of Mental Actions in Stages. The activities will initially be evaluated by judges and the kappa coefficient will be used to analyze agreement between them. All students with ID in the final years of elementary school at a State School in Rio Grande do Norte will participate in the study, divided into two groups, one experimental and the other control. Participants in both groups will be evaluated before and after the end of the intervention, in the conceptual field of multiplicative structures. Additionally, the data will be subjected to a repeated measures ANOVA discerning the factors of test time (pre-, post-monitoring group) and intervention group (group with intervention versus group without intervention). It is believed that the study can contribute to the pedagogical practice of AEE teachers, contributing to inclusion, through the development and learning of students with intellectual disabilities.