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Cramer, Elizabeth; Nevin, Ann; Thousand, Jacqueline; Liston, Andrea – Online Submission, 2006
A mixed methodology approach was used to address the question: what are skills, knowledge and dispositions that co-teachers need to balance the seemingly competing mandates of NCLB and IDEIA in order to prepare teachers for the classrooms of today and tomorrow? Based on the results of two recent studies that focused on secondary co-teacher teams…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Schools, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes
Lokon, Elizabeth – 1997
An ethnographic study of teacher teaming was conducted at an urban high school, exploring the effects the teaming process had on teachers' and students' experiences. Heritage High School was a relatively large urban school in the Midwest, employing over 100 teachers and serving over 1,200 students. The school has a graduation rate of only about…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Educational Change, Grade 9, High Risk Students
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Hagopian, Gloria; And Others – 1996
This paper reports on the results of an initiative taken by Paterson Public Schools (New Jersey), an urban school district with approximately 24,000 students, to restructure its Title I elementary program. The effort involves engaging Title I and regular classroom teachers in a collaborative teaching model as an alternative to the traditional…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cooperation, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Assessment
Harris, Kathleen C.; Nevin, Ann – 1994
The experience of one urban school district in developing and implementing a program of team teaching for bilingual special education students is examined. Bilingual education teachers, special education teachers, specialists in speech pathology and English as a Second Language, and principals collaborated to construct their own programs in one…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Cooperation
Kinney, David A. – 1995
Students' experiences of daily classroom activities and the larger school context were studied at the Robert W. Coleman Elementary School, Baltimore (Maryland). Coleman is an inner-city school serving about 500 African American children in prekindergarten through grade 5. The school is organized into three campuses--primary, "Coleman"…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Cultural Awareness, Educational Environment
Collinson, Vivienne; And Others – 1994
This paper synthesizes the results of three case studies that focus on urban and suburban elementary teachers who are engaged in new roles: as learners, as clinical educators, and as leaders. Results of the studies suggest that epistemological issues; workplace contexts; and an ethic of care, which is especially noticeable in collegial…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Educational Change