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Jamie L. McCarthy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The population in the United States continues to become more diverse each year. Our education system is not designed to support students that do not have English as a first language. The population of multilingual learners are falling behind their English Proficient peers. Inadequate teacher training and program design are contributing factors as…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, English Language Learners, Language Proficiency, Academic Achievement
Jacqueline Leathers Berry – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is not a great body of research that exists exploring literacy self-efficacy perceptions of teachers through a qualitative lens, and it was noted that the voices of teachers were missing in literacy self-efficacy research. This qualitative study investigates teachers' perceptions about their literacy self-efficacy, as well as what factors…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Literacy, Elementary School Teachers, Kindergarten
Jonathan Firetto – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Throughout the history of education, educators have created a variety of techniques to best support students. As students with disabilities began to be instructed alongside their peers, new collaborative teaching practices started to take shape. As defined by Friend et al. (2010), co-teaching is an educational best practice implemented in various…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Inclusion, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Team Teaching
John Joseph Salmon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative single case study used Michael Fullan's (2008) six secrets as a framework to explore the phenomenon of administrators' experiences developing, implementing and sustaining a team-teaching model with grades 3-8. Data was gathered from seven administrators who completed a questionnaire, interviews, and a focus group. This study was…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Curriculum Implementation
Cindy Charlton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As caseloads for special education teachers continue to rise and as more students with disabilities enter the regular education setting (U.S. Department of Education, 2016), the need for co-teaching, in which a special education teacher and regular education teacher work together in one classroom to meet all students' needs, is significant.…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Public Schools, Teaching Models, Influences
Hall, Valerie – ProQuest LLC, 2019
From the time they begin school, relationships with teachers are the foundation upon which children build their identities as students. Those relationships can either facilitate or impede learning. This is even more salient for students who struggle to meet grade level expectations and master academic demands. This study explored how elementary…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 3
Morgan-Morris, Claudia Beverley – ProQuest LLC, 2019
During 2012-2016, students with disabilities (SWDs) in Grades 3-5 in an urban elementary school in New York City did not meet the New York State English Language Arts (ELA) standards. The scores had been consistently low for SWDs when compared to their nondisabled peers. SWDs are placed in the inclusion classrooms with an Individual Education Plan…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Urban Schools, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Mathieu, Lorna – ProQuest LLC, 2019
English Learners (ELs) represent one of the fastest-growing groups among the school-age population in the United States. However, there have been significant achievement gaps between ELs and native English-speaking students in all grades and content areas. The gap only widens when EL students with a disability are considered. This study built on…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Achievement Gap, Students with Disabilities, Academic Achievement
Peacock, Delicia – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Inclusion classrooms were introduced in the United States in 1990 when the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act required that special education students be instructed in a general education setting. Ensuing changes in instructional formats have caused role confusion for special and general education teachers, resulted in mixed attitudes…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Teacher Attitudes
Scranton, Megan J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Co-teaching has become one of many collaborative strategies that schools are looking at in an effort to meet the needs of all students and improve teachers' instructional practices (Villa, Thousand, & Nevin, 2004). This study provides a descriptive analysis of co-teaching among several different purposeful pairings of teachers at the preschool…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Literacy Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Mamantov, Tonya Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A challenge for todays instructional leaders is identifying the most effective method of educating English Language Learners (ELLs) who participate in the English as a Second Language (ESL) program. The primary purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness of three programs used for ESL students in twelve elementary schools in a Urban…
Descriptors: Investigations, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English Language Learners