The place of designing and compiling the educational content of the training courses in the educational well-being of students with special needs

The purpose of the research is "the effectiveness of the educational content of the vocational disciplines of the second year of vocational high school from the perspective of experts and specialists" and the research method is mixed (quantitative-qualitative). In the quantitative part, a descriptive survey method; And for qualitative data analysis, content analysis method has been used. The statistical population included experts and teachers of exceptional education in Markazi province (N = 85) who were selected by simple random method and Cochranchr('39')s formula, 70 people as a sample for the quantitative section. In order to collect data in the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire was used and the validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its reliability was calculated by Cronbachchr('39')s alpha coefficient of 0.749. The method of data analysis in this section was descriptive statistics (average). The statistical population of the qualitative section consisted of experts and teachers of the second year of vocational high school who used "criterion-based targeted sampling method" to the theoretical saturation, 17 people were selected. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. The result showed that in the current curriculum for students with special needs, the content oversees the cognitive domain and with emphasis on conservation, regardless of individual differences and the ecological issue for students. In this program, the emphasis is on presenting the selected content during the school year, and this has caused the teachers to skip the required and essential content of the person with mental retardation.