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Effects of Modeling Collaborative Teaching for Pre-Service Teachers
Stang, Kristin K.; Lyons, Barbara M.
Teacher Education and Special Education, v31 n3 p182-194 Aug 2008
In this article, the authors examine pre-service special education teacher reaction to and experience in a collaboratively taught higher education course. Forty-three full-time postbaccalaureate students participate in a course designed to examine critical issues in special education, taught by two faculty members, one specializing in mild and moderate disabilities and the other in moderate and severe disabilities. Pre-service teachers respond to a survey about their knowledge and comfort with co-teaching. Data are collected and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Three qualitative themes regarding participants' perceptions of skills affecting co-teaching emerge: interpersonal skills, collaborative skills, and instructional issues. Overall, participant knowledge of co-teaching increase and faculty modeling of co-teaching is reported as the most valuable contributing factor. (Contains 5 tables.)
Descriptors: Education Courses, Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Team Teaching, Special Education, Faculty, Teacher Collaboration, Severe Disabilities, Student Surveys, Student Teacher Attitudes, Student Reaction, Skill Analysis, Teaching Skills, Modeling (Psychology), Teaching Methods, Likert Scales, Student Characteristics, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance
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