Co-Teaching How Do General and Special Education Teachers Perceive Their Respective Roles in Various Co-Teaching Models?
Date
2007-05Author
Opperman, Pamela
Advisor(s)
Chiang, Bert
Rylance, Billie Jo
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Co-teaching is used in many different academic levels from elementary schools to
college. Co-teaching can be both a positive and negative experience for those who
participate in a co-teaching environment. Co-teaching is also known as Cooperative
Teaching, Collaborative Teaching and Team-Teaching. Co-teaching is when a general
and special education educators teach together in a diverse academic environment.
This research focused on an online survey completed by twenty-four co-teachers
(15 general and 9 special educators) in a high school located in the Midwest part of the
United States. The survey was sent via email and the participants were given one week to
answer all twenty questions, with the last question providing an area for co-teachers to
write additional comments regarding their co-teaching experience. The questions were
based on 4 point Likert scale with the following choices: strongly agree, agree, disagree
and strongly disagree. The survey was divided into three major headings; general
information, students and working together.
Results from this study showed most of the participants have been teaching
between 1-5 years and over 11 years. The majority (71 %) of the participants have co-taught
between one-five years. Over half of the co-teachers felt a co-teaching classroom
benefits the students. Three-quarters felt they share equal responsibilities and had a
positive relationship with their co-teacher. Forty-six percent of the co-teachers felt
students tend to approach one teacher more often than the other in the co-teaching
classroom. Only 42% of the participants plan their lessons together and 58% disagreed as
to having adequate time for planning. See chapter 4 results for more information
regarding the results from the survey.
Subject
team teaching
co-teaching
teacher attitudes
special education
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http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/84745Type
Field project