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Kelly Ann Cassella – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The issue of teacher shortages has long been a concern in schools across the nation. Currently, the majority of states have reported persistent shortages, with special education experiencing the most severe gaps. The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of school climate on teacher retention in special education schools. Special…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Environment, Teacher Persistence, Special Education Teachers
Chad Aldeman – Education Next, 2024
Is there a shortage of special education teachers in America's public schools? If so, why? And how can policymakers fix it? The first question sounds like an easy one. Yes, there is a shortage of special education teachers. In 2023-24, more than half of districts and 80 percent of states reported such a shortage. If you doubt the self-reported…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Public Schools, Teacher Shortage, Faculty Mobility
Kathleen Capps Goodrich – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The ongoing teacher shortage has created major concern across the nation. While much research has sought to understand sources of teacher dissatisfaction, less attention has been paid to how general education (GE) and special education (SE) teachers differentially experience workplace challenges. To construct a more detailed and domain specific…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Teacher Shortage, Special Education Teachers, Career Change
Jennifer Courduff; Jean Kiekel; Peter Hessling – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2023
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain an understanding of the lived experiences of special educators in the pivot from in-person to virtual learning during COVID-19. A national sample of 46 participants participated in the study. Individual recorded interviews were conducted with each participant by the primary researcher. Two…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Special Education Teachers, Electronic Learning
Christopher, Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Over 7 million students in the United States of America meet special education eligibilities and are serviced in public schools. Life skills teachers teach a specialized group of students with intellectual disabilities. Each of these students has their own Individual Education Plan (IEP). It is a legal requirement for each IEP to be implemented…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Special Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Access to Education
Helman, Rae Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2023
There has been a shortage of teachers in the field of special education for over 4 decades. Recently, this shortage is reaching a critical stage causing schools and districts to be unable to meet the federal and state mandates to provide a Free and Appropriate Education to all students ages 3-21 in the Least Restrictive Environment. This shortage…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Needs, Faculty Mobility
Virginia L. Walker; Reem Muharib; Kristin J. Lyon; Kristy Park – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of interdependent and independent group contingencies on pre-service teachers' performance on class quizzes that reflected their knowledge of evidence-based practices for students with extensive support needs. In the interdependent condition, the course instructor awarded extra credit…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Performance, Tests, Credits
Ashraf Mustafa; Maxwell Peprah Opoku; Ahmed Hamdan; Mohammed Safi; Enas Mohamed – British Journal of Special Education, 2024
Students with disabilities such as visual impairment (VI) face challenges in accessing education, mainly owing to their inability to participate in learning activities in the classroom. While experts in special education have discussed the deployment of assistive technology (AT) to support the learning of students with VI, research on its impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students with Disabilities, Visual Impairments, Assistive Technology
Ali Kurt; Meltem Kurtoglu Erden – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Teachers are expected to have sufficient knowledge and skills on assistive technologies in order to use assistive technologies, which are defined as various technological tools and methods that facilitate the lives of individuals with special needs, in the field of education. Considering that this is related to undergraduate education programme in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Special Education
Karin M. Fisher; Kelly E. Standridge; Laura M. Echezabal; Edie G. Grice; Adia Greer – Journal of Special Education, 2024
A sequential explanatory mixed methods study was conducted to determine special education teachers' (SETs) pandemic experiences in the U.S. state of Georgia. We distributed a survey, held focus groups, and analyzed both data for complementarity. We found that SETs experienced challenges, benefits, and concerns when they returned to their…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Special Education Teachers, Teaching Experience
Chasity Echo Johnson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative correlational-predictive study was to assess if and to what extent the Big Five Personality Traits (Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), individually and combined, predict Perceived Job Stress among K-12 special education teachers in US. The study was guided by the theoretical…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Stress Variables, Teaching Conditions, Elementary Secondary Education
Seyma Birinci – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore how teachers engaged in data use for instructional decision making. A grounded theory research design was used to analyze interviews of 10 special education teachers. Special education teachers were asked to complete an online survey and were interviewed with questions to reveal their experiences with…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Decision Making, Data Use, Special Education Teachers
Rosalyn Kelsy Nelson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how novice special education teachers describe the influence of collegial emotional, instrumental, informational, and appraisal support in public charter schools on their career decisions in the southwestern region of the United States. House's theory of social support and Vygotsky's…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Beginning Teachers, Collegiality, Decision Making
Samantha Vasy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study investigates teachers' perceptions of the Good Behavior Game (GBG) intervention within the context of a special education school. The primary research question guiding this study is: What are school staff's perceptions of the Good Behavior Game in a special education school? The study employs a qualitative approach,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Student Behavior, Special Education, Special Education Teachers
Laurie C. Faith; Valerie Prowse – Teacher Development, 2024
Self-regulated learning (SRL) is a fundamental skill for school and life. Much is known about how to effectively teach and support it in a classroom, though teachers often retreat to more structured, external learning regulation. Experts have identified the important role of pedagogical knowledge and personal self-regulated learning in helping…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Teacher Burnout, Executive Function, Special Education Teachers