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ERIC Number: EJ1328993
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0737-5328
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Faculty Perceptions of Course Attributes, Resources, and Attitudes for a Successful Co-Teaching Experience with Preservice Teacher Educators
Cannaday, Jessica; Hennigan Bautista, Kathleen; Gomez Najarro, Joyce; Kula, Stacy; Guta, Angela
Teacher Education Quarterly, v48 n4 p7-27 Fall 2021
This qualitative study is a follow-up to an initial large-scale case study on the implementation of a co-taught curriculum in one California teacher preparation program. In a continuation of the initial case study, this follow-up study examined faculty perceptions of the necessary course attributes, resources, and attitudes for a successful university-level co-teaching experience in a preservice teacher education program. Nineteen faculty interviews were analyzed and included in this study utilizing cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) to understand individual faculty perceptions in the context of the larger activity system of co-teaching. Results indicate that faculty perceived necessary course attributes in a co-taught course to include equal representation of special education and general education faculty; increased use of constructivist pedagogical methods; use of team teaching, parallel teaching, and station-based co-teaching models; and partnerships based on openness, flexibility, trust, and willingness to compromise. Faculty perceived barriers to co-teaching success to be lack of both time and funding. Differing perceptions of co-teaching implementation existed between adjunct faculty and full faculty and between special education and general education faculty.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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