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Reconceptualizing Assistance for Young Children of Color with Disabilities in an Inclusion Classroom
Park, Soyoung; Lee, Sunmin; Alonzo, Monica; Adair, Jennifer Keys – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2021
In this article, we draw on DisCrit to critically analyze how a group of early childhood educators approached assistance with young children of color with disabilities in a Head Start inclusion classroom. Using examples from data collected over one school year, we demonstrate how child-centered assistance advances justice for young children of…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Young Children, Students with Disabilities, Early Intervention
Helakorpi, Jenni; Lappalainen, Sirpa; Sahlström, Fritjof – Intercultural Education, 2019
Although Finnish politics relating to the Roma tend to be perceived internationally as fairly successful, several obstacles exist for the Roma in education and the labour market. Training of Roma mediators has been actively promoted in Finland to improve the school performance and equality of Roma pupils. This article, based on ethnographic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Power Structure, Ethnography
Malkus, Nat; Hoyer, Kathleen Mulvaney – National Center for Education Statistics, 2016
This report uses expenditure data from the Common Core of Data (CCD) "National Public Education Financial Survey (NPEFS)" for fiscal years 1991 to 2011 and instructional staff data from the CCD "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education" for school years 1990-91 to 2010-11. The CCD annually collects fiscal…
Descriptors: Salaries, Public Schools, Expenditures, Teacher Aides
Gottfried, Michael A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Over the past 20 years, the number of teacher's aides in the United States has more than doubled, potentially in response to the growth of special education programs now taking place in general education schools. Surprisingly, little research at all has focused on the role that teacher's aides may play in improving student achievement, and no…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Disabilities, Kindergarten, Role
Collingwood, Nikki; Dewey, Jessica – Educational & Child Psychology, 2018
Aim: This study sought to identify the impact of a maths intervention aimed at enhancing performance, self-concept and self-regulation, while reducing negative emotional responses. Method: A quantitative, between-group repeated-measure experimental design was used to investigate differences between the groups over time. One-hundred-and-forty-four…
Descriptors: Intervention, Elementary School Students, Young Children, Mathematics Achievement
Wren, Alison – Support for Learning, 2017
The number of teaching assistants (TAs) in schools in the UK has risen in recent years, but there remains a lack of clarity about the roles being undertaken by these support staff. This article reports findings from a study investigating how the TA role is understood both by the pupils being supported and by TAs themselves. Eleven students with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Aides, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Interviews
Myklebust, Jon; Myklebust, Vidar – British Journal of Special Education, 2017
This article discusses how psychosocial health in adolescence influences adult mental health among former students with special educational needs in Norway. These individuals have been followed prospectively from their teens and into their mid-30s. The study is inspired by life course perspectives with an emphasis on cumulative processes. The…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Adolescents, Adults, Disabilities
Karacabey, Mehmet Fatih – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study is to identify problems such as administration, program and parental issues that pre-school teachers encounter. The other purpose is to investigate whether the teacher perceptions on problems that pre-school teachers encounter differ statistically significantly depending on the presence of a helper in the class, school…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
Dimitrellou, Eleni; Hurry, Jane; Male, Dawn – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
The notion of inclusion has gained momentum worldwide, with most countries around the world embracing inclusive policies in their educational systems. However, there is still an ongoing debate as to what is inclusion and hence, the consequent challenge of coming up with an agreed definition, which could then be used to plan for and subsequently,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Secondary Schools
Gradovski, Mikhail; Løkken, Ingrid M. – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2015
To maintain team learning for assistants in preschools, dialogue and group discussions are important. These dialogues and discussions can happen both as a part of spontaneous supervision and as a part of an organized process of supervision. Bakhtinian theory of understanding and its notion of dialogue could be used to organize supervision of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Teacher Aides, Supervision
Muñiz, Jenny – New America, 2020
For many non-traditional candidates, the path into teaching is riddled with bumps and detours. They must pay for increasingly expensive coursework and certification costs, attend classes that conflict with work schedules, and forgo wages to complete unfunded student teaching requirements. These roadblocks can deter valuable local…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Nontraditional Students, Barriers, Grants
Clarke, Emma; Visser, John – Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2017
This paper will consider how teaching assistants' (TAs') roles are changing from the historical 'mum's army' (Bach Kessler & Heron, 2006) of paint-pot washers, as some considered it pre-national curriculum, to the developing conception of the TA as a 'paraprofessional'. Contemporary issues arising from the loosely defined current expectations…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Role Perception
Frantz, Rebecca Jane – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Naturalistic behavioral interventions increase the acquisition, generalization, and maintenance of child social communication skills among children with developmental delays (DD). Teaching Assistants (TAs) are ideal interventionists for delivering social communication interventions because of the significant amount of time they spend working…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Teacher Aides, Coaching (Performance), Teaching Methods
Ferguson, Miriam – Kairaranga, 2014
Teacher aides have been part of New Zealand classrooms for many decades. Initially, they were employed to perform clerical and supervisory duties that required no professional training, such as typing, duplicating and playground supervision. Over the years, however, their role has changed significantly. They now play a pivotal role as a 'people…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Student Needs
Dutt, Anuradha S.; Chen, Iris; Nair, Rahul – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2019
The aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the level of skills and training needs reported by special educators and teaching associates in functional behavioral assessment (FBA) and behavioral interventions within special education (SPED) schools in Singapore. The Skills and Needs Inventories in Functional Behavior Assessments and…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Foreign Countries, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Intervention