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Perceptions of High School Life Skills Teachers on the Role of Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills in Self-Contained Classrooms Servicing Students with an Intellectual Disability
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Roxanne S. Pellon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Texas educational curriculum standards are implemented within all general and special education classrooms. This qualitative phenomenological research study explores the perceptions of 12 high school life school servicing student with an intellectual disability (ID) within a self-contained classroom. This study provides district stakeholders such…
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Intellectual Disability, Self Contained Classrooms
Differentiated Spelling: Using Small Group Instruction
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Broughton, Sara – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2023
Spelling instruction is often overlooked by many teachers during reading and language arts. The purpose of this study was to implement a manageable differentiated word study instruction curriculum, drawn from the "Words Their Way (WTW)" curriculum, to determine how it affected students' spelling accuracy and how the participants…
Descriptors: Spelling, Small Group Instruction, Individualized Instruction, Program Effectiveness
Enhance and Extend Preservice Special Educators' Learning with Curricular Content Knowledge
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Sharp, Laurie A.; Simmons, Michelle; Goode, Frank; Scott, Lawrence – SRATE Journal, 2019
Developing preservice special educators' understandings of curricular content knowledge in inclusive and self-contained settings is essential. The purpose of the present study was to better understand specific preparation practices teacher educators use to equip preservice special educators with curricular content knowledge. Using a survey…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Inclusion
Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Teachers' Descriptions of Methods Used to Improve the Reading Achievement of Students with Learning Disabilities
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Berkowitz, Sally Greenberg – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore ways in which third, fourth, and fifth grade teachers reported they successfully improved the reading achievement of students with LD as documented by an increase in test scores on standardized tests in reading. Moreover, this study is an examination of productive ways in which elementary classroom…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teaching Methods, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Teacher Time Use in Special Education
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Vannest, Kimberly J.; Hagan-Burke, Shanna – Remedial and Special Education, 2010
How special education teachers spend their time is largely unknown. Yet conceptually, "time" is one of the most tangible and salient variables of the effective instruction literature, Carroll's model of school learning and many economic models of performance measures. This currently unknown use of teacher time has clear and important…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Disabilities, Special Education Teachers, Special Education
Implementing Reform Curriculum: Voicing the Experiences of an ESL/Mathematics Teacher
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Celedon-Pattichis, Sylvia – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2010
The purpose of this 18-month case study is to highlight the successes and challenges that an ESL/mathematics teacher encountered as she made a shift from traditional mathematics curriculum to a standards-based curriculum as part of a statewide systemic initiative. The study was conducted in an urban, public middle school in Central Texas that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Second Language Learning, Educational Change, Self Contained Classrooms