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Roegman, Rachel; Pratt, Suzanne; Sanchez, Sabrina; Chen, Crystal – New Educator, 2018
The field of special education is in flux, with high shortages and attrition and increasing requirements around quality teachers and teaching contexts. In this study, we explore how preservice teachers develop identities as special education-certified teachers within this context. Data include focus groups, admissions essays, and class assignments…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Certification, Preservice Teachers, Professional Identity
Saylor, John – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: Following recent federal legislation and related policy changes, co-teaching evolved rapidly as a strategy to provide students with disabilities access to the same curriculum as students without disabilities while receiving instruction in the least restrictive environment. It is unclear if co-teaching is an effective instructional…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Team Teaching
Katz, Lori A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Current educational policies that have articulated from IDEA are driving the adoption of inclusionary practices in schools. These policies present challenges to general education, secondary education, and dual-licensed teachers at the secondary level. Secondary general education teachers may lack the pedagogical knowledge necessary to accommodate…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Secondary School Teachers
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Vannest, Kimberly J.; Hagan-Burke, Shanna – Remedial and Special Education, 2010
How special education teachers spend their time is largely unknown. Yet conceptually, "time" is one of the most tangible and salient variables of the effective instruction literature, Carroll's model of school learning and many economic models of performance measures. This currently unknown use of teacher time has clear and important…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Special Education
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Hurley, Jennifer J.; Horn, Eva M. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2010
The purpose of this study was to provide information about what characteristics from the variety of inclusive early childhood programs are most valued and least valued by families and professionals. Participants were 10 family members of young children with disabilities being served in inclusive programs and 10 early childhood professionals…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities, Young Children
Keefe, Elizabeth B.,Ed.; Moore, Veronica M., Ed.; Duff, Frances R., Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2006
What's the best way to find out what really works--and doesn't work--in education for students with disabilities? Listen to the experts: the students themselves. In this one-of-a-kind book, students with a wide range of disabilities give readers a rare inside look at their past and present school experiences, both in self-contained classrooms and…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Teaching Methods, Essays, Self Contained Classrooms