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Ability-Responsive Instruction in Secondary Ensembles: Lessons from COVID-Era Interactions
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Karen Salvador; Adam G. Harry – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2025
After making instructional changes due to COVID-19 lockdowns, secondary ensemble teachers reported stronger personal connections with students and increased focus on developing individual musicianship. Using an online survey, we examined if and how the shift to online instruction affected secondary music ensemble teachers' perceptions and…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Music Activities, Individualized Instruction, Students with Disabilities
Making Inclusive Instruction Succeed: What Matters (Most) from Teachers' Perspectives? The Role of Teachers' Personal Characteristics, Joint Professional Work, and School-Related Parameters
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Weiss, Sabine; Lerche, Thomas; Muckenthaler, Magdalena; Heimlich, Ulrich; Kiel, Ewald – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2019
One key function necessary to successfully teach a heterogeneous student population is to individually adapt instruction to students' needs and prerequisites. Using structural equation modelling, the present study investigated whether or to what extent different factors, teachers' personal characteristics, their joint professional activities, and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Teacher Attitudes, Individual Characteristics, Teacher Collaboration
Effects of Student Self-Monitoring of Behaviors Selected from IEP Goals
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Kunsch, Catherine A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Despite a general consensus that students with disabilities should learn skills of independence and self-determination, schools have been criticized for not adequately preparing these students to actively participate in their education. In an effort to place a greater emphasis on this type of preparation, many educators have focused on increasing…
Descriptors: Intervention, Individualized Education Programs, Self Efficacy, Individualized Instruction
Perspectives of Canadian Teacher Candidates on Inclusion of Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Mixed-Methods Study
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Hutchinson, Nancy; Minnes, Patricia; Burbidge, Julie; Dods, Jenn; Pyle, Angela; Dalton, C. J. – Exceptionality Education International, 2015
This mixed-methods study reports on the perspectives of 208 teacher candidates on teaching children with developmental disabilities and delays (DD) in inclusive classrooms from Kindergarten to Grade 6. The questionnaire included items on demographics, experience, knowledge, and feelings of competence, advocacy, and sense of efficacy. Open-ended…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Inclusion
Pathways to Leadership and Professional Development: Inspiring Novice Special Educators
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Kaufman, Roberta C.; Ring, Mary – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2011
Well-trained new special education teachers know that the individualized education program (IEP) team is the crux of the special education program. The IEP team addresses academic goals and behavior intervention plans for the student but rarely addresses in depth the social environment of the school, classroom, or family. Important aspects of the…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Self Efficacy, Teacher Role, Disabilities
A Functional Assessment of the Use of Virtual Simulations to Train Distance Preservice Special Education Teachers to Conduct Individualized Education Program Team Meetings
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Mason, Lee Landrum – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The individualized education program (IEP) is a critical component of providing special education services to children with disabilities, outlining the services and modifications that will be provided to help them make progress towards the general curriculum. While simulations have been shown to be an effective means of teaching special education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Individualized Education Programs, Self Efficacy, Disabilities