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Preparing Secondary Educators to Support Adolescent Struggling Readers
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Leko, Melinda M.; Mundy, Charlotte A. – Preventing School Failure, 2012
The authors examined 3 secondary special education teachers' implementation of reading knowledge and strategies acquired during a 2-year preparation program. They collected and qualitatively analyzed interview and observation data to ascertain what strategies teachers used and why. Findings indicated that contextual factors (e.g., school-adopted…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Reading Instruction, Secondary School Teachers, Reading Difficulties
Individual and Contextual Factors Influencing Special Education Teacher Learning in Literacy Learning Cohorts
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Brownell, Mary T.; Lauterbach, Alexandra A.; Dingle, Mary P.; Boardman, Alison G.; Urbach, Jennifer E.; Leko, Melinda M.; Benedict, Amber E.; Park, Yujeong – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2014
In this study, researchers operated from cognitive and situated perspectives to understand how individual qualities and contextual factors influenced elementary special education teachers' learning in a multifaceted professional development (PD) project, Literacy Learning Cohort, focused on word study and fluency instruction. Grounded theory…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Special Education Teachers, Reading Instruction, Disabilities
Envisioning the Future of Special Education Personnel Preparation in a Standards-Based Era
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Leko, Melinda M.; Brownell, Mary T.; Sindelar, Paul T.; Kiely, Mary Theresa – Exceptional Children, 2015
The authors consider the future of special education personnel preparation by responding to an overarching question: "What frameworks might teacher educators use as a basis to promote special education teacher effective performance now and in the future?" In answering this question, they summarize current trends in the context of…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education Programs