CHALLENGES FACING SPECIAL EDUCATION SPECIALISTS AND SELF CONFIDENCE IN RAMALLAH AND AL BIREH GOVERNORATE

The study aimed to identify the challenges facing special education teachers and specialists and their relationship to their self-confidence in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, in light of the independent variables (gender, age, educational qualification, and monthly income).To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the descriptive correlational approach, and the researcher developed A questionnaire on the challenges facing special education teachers and specialists, and a self-confidence questionnaire, using the simple random sampling method, The study population included (250) special education teachers and specialists in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, and the sample consisted of (101) respondents from special education teachers andThe results of the study concluded that the level of challenges facing special education teachers and specialists was average, and that the level of self-confidence of special education teachers and specialists was average.It also found that there were no statistically significant differences in the averages of special education teachers and specialists in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate on the challenges scale due to the variables: gender, age, academic qualification, The study found that there were no statistically significant differences between the average scores of special education teachers and specialists in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate in self-confidence due to the variables: gender and age.The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between the average scores of special education teachers and specialists in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate in self-confidence due to the academic qualification variable, in favor of a master's degree or higher, The study also found a statistically significant negative correlation between the challenges facing special education teachers and specialists and their self-confidence in Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate, as the value of the Pearson correlation coefficient reached (-.695).