Most students with disabilities obtain the majority of their education in general education classroom settings. However, the negative attitudes and beliefs of general education teachers create obstacles in inclusion classroom settings. In a school district in Northern Middle Tennessee 10 middle school general education and special education…

Of all the tasks that special education teachers are charged with completing, managing classroom behaviors has been reported as one of the most challenging and one of the top reasons the teachers are leaving the field. The task of providing effective support in classroom management is also daunting for leadership personnel in school systems. This…

At a mid-size suburban school district located in Texas, secondary special education teachers are not integrating technology routinely into their content-based lessons, thereby not ensuring special education students have access to a guaranteed viable curriculum. The purpose of this basic qualitative research study was to explore secondary…

As education policy in Saudi Arabia is beginning to implement a more inclusive classroom model which educates children with and without special needs side-by-side, teachers are struggling to find the best practices that can meet the needs of students with diverse levels of learning abilities. However, the government's Saudi Vision 2030 has…

Middle school students lack coping skills which cause misbehaviors and disruptions to their education. The misbehaviors are higher among middle school students with disabilities and middle school special education teachers are struggling to implement effective strategies to address the disruptive behaviors of their students in a suburban…

Mathematics is typically perceived as an objective subject due to its clarity and linearity. If this is accepted as true, then students of any race, ethnicity, gender, or class should have access to high-quality culturally responsive instruction in mathematics. Because this is not always the case, we explore strategies that special education…

Background and Aims: This paper aim to investigate that teachers in special education schools have poor teacher resilience, mainly in the form of psychological stress that leads to mental health problems and consequent poor teaching effectiveness. Methods: Through the quantitative approach, this paper investigates the phenomenon. Results: The…

Despite the research regarding the importance of peer review and feedback in pre-service special education teachers, there exists a gap in teaching complex mathematical concepts such as fractional operations. This study sought to address this gap by investigating how pre-service teachers can effectively appraise and revise peer-generated teaching…

This study investigated Chinese special education teachers' perceptions and practices of individualizing instruction for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Semistructured interviews were conducted with 31 teachers who taught elementary Chinese language arts and math in six public special education schools for students…

Posing questions is a direct way for teachers to push students to verbalize justifications and make connections among ideas--a crucial component of giving students with learning disabilities access to high levels of mathematical reasoning--but this skill is difficult to learn. We recruited four pre-service special education teachers to provide 1-1…

The most effective way to improve the performance of students is to improve the practice of their teachers (McLeskey & Brownell, 2015). Teachers must provide highly effective, research-based instruction responsive to the unique needs of students with disabilities for quality outcomes to occur. High-Leverage Practices (HLPs) were developed by…

Researchers have indicated special education students tend to be motivated by working with interactive whiteboard (IWB) technology; however, few researchers have examined how this technology is used in adaptive classrooms. Many high school teachers have not been able to use IWB technology to create student-centered learning experiences for special…

This quantitative dissertation aims to describe and compare the perception of special education teachers' self-efficacy amid the COVID-19 pandemic using the practice of distance and their self-efficacy pre-pandemic using face-to-face instruction and describe the perceived valuable supports teachers received from educational leaders during the…

The present study used a sequential mixed method design to compare special education and general education elementary teachers' self-efficacy for data-driven decision making. Participants were 127 teachers from several school divisions in a mid-Atlantic state in the United States. Dunn et al.'s (2013a) "The Data-Driven Decision Making…

This study was designed to identify factors impacting teachers who co-teach, both special education and general education content teachers. This study also addressed a gap in knowledge regarding job satisfaction for co-teachers. Additionally, this study identified both positive and negative factors that lead to job satisfaction among this specific…