Aliza Alias’s scientific contributions

Teachers play an essential role in implementing the ultimate goal of education by producing insightful human capital in line with the goals of the Pelan Pembangunan Pendidikan Malaysia (PPPM) 2013-2025. This effort is also the main responsibility of special education teachers in improving a learning process that satisfies the specific necessities of special needs students. Special education teachers require to furnish themselves with a wide assortment of knowledge and skills so that quality education can be applied to students with special needs. Therefore, this study investigates the level of technological pedagogy and content knowledge, teaching style, self-efficacy and competency among special education teachers. This research employs a quantitative approach applying the survey method. In this research, 229 special education teachers from vocational schools are involved as a sample. The collected data were analysed, adopting the SPSS application to get the mean and standard deviation. The results confirm that the technological pedagogy and content knowledge (mean = 4.96), teaching style (mean = 5.44), self-efficacy (mean = 6.92) and competency (4.12) are at high level. This study carries positive impacts on teachers' task in enhancing the quality of their teaching profession.