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Murphy, Jeremy T. – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background/Context: The 1960s open space school removed partitions between classrooms in part to alleviate teacher isolation. The model was long ago deemed a failure. Years later, teachers in surviving open space facilities continue to navigate the reform. Despite wide dismissal of the model, components of teachers' work that open space schools…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Change, Open Plan Schools, Teacher Attitudes
Otto, Lorinda – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study investigated the effects of a method to support higher levels of independent performance and generalization of skills using a structured work system with a visual schedule when teaching online task completion skills to high school students with ASD and intellectual disabilities. Students with ASD and intellectual disabilities are…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Contained Classrooms, Students with Disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Zheng, Wenjing – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2023
Teachers' instructional language is often described as key in facilitating the learning of children with disabilities. This article explored two teachers' instructional language as used in interactions with children with mild and severe language difficulties in one-on-one instructional sessions. The results showed that teachers used more…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities
Skyler McCain – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Students with emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD) often display externalizing behaviors (e.g., aggression and defiance) and experience internalizing symptoms (e.g., anxiety and depression). When left untreated, these difficulties can result in negative outcomes for students in school and beyond. Cognitive-behavioral interventions (CBIs) offer…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification, Student Attitudes, Therapy
Ellie Rush – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The co-teaching movement began in the late 1960s when educators felt that students with special education needs could be incorporated successfully with their general education peers in a general education classroom. While the mainstream perception is that all students have the capacity to learn, when tasked with personal beliefs, coupled with…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Team Teaching, Teacher Collaboration
Kimberly Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem of this basic qualitative study explored whether there is an underrepresentation of information surrounding strategies, systems, and programs special education teachers use to support students using augmentative alternative communication (AAC) and the impact said information has on student behaviors. The purpose of this basic…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities, Student Behavior
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Gersib, Jenna A.; Mason, Sarah – Behavioral Disorders, 2023
Students with emotional-behavioral disorders (EBDs) often learn in alternative classroom settings to provide more intensive instruction that meets their educational needs. Although research has demonstrated promise for several behavior intervention practices in general education settings, the generalizability of these practices to more restricted…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Students with Disabilities, Intervention
Scotia Hammond – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Experiencing stress at high levels during pivotal developmental years can have a detrimental impact on adolescents' overall development and well-being (Rahdar & Galvan, 2014; Romeo, 2013). Extensive research has shown the positive effects a strong student-teacher relationship has on students' resiliency to counteract the negative effects of…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Students with Disabilities
Natasha Leigh Bailey – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Secondary public education for students with severe disabilities offers some of the last opportunities for improved social/behavioral skills, activities of daily living, and cognitive/academic instruction. The problem is that thorough descriptions of self-contained classroom ecology and teachers' use of evidence-based strategies are limited.…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Students with Disabilities, Middle School Teachers, High School Teachers
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Coleman, LauraMarie K. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2020
This article provides an example of how one sixth-grade classroom teacher and an instructional coach built a bridge for students in a grade 6 self-contained classroom to support their conceptual understanding and procedural fluency with dividing fractions. Baseline data showed that most of the students in this class had mastered only the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Self Contained Classrooms, Fractions, Intervention
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Hample, Kerri; Mahler, Kelly; Amspacher, Adam – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2020
The ability to notice internal sensations such as tense muscles, a rumbling stomach, or heavy eyelids and translate these internal sensations into emotional meaning such as anger, hunger, and fatigue is an important skill called interoceptive awareness. Deficits in interoception have been discovered within many conditions including autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Perceptual Impairments, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Somma, Monique – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2020
This phenomenological case study explored the pedagogical change experiences of five special education teachers who have transitioned from teaching in a self-contained class to an inclusive class. Educators participated in individual interviews regarding their experiences over the course of their teaching careers. These data were combined using a…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teaching Experience, Educational Change, Inclusion
Chauncey Malachi – ProQuest LLC, 2020
In the American Education system, high school plays an important role. High school education in the country is impacted by several factors such as peer pressure, parental influence and personal characteristics. There are discrepancies in achievements between Black and White students across the United States. Therefore, this paper will aim at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Males, High School Students
Mindy Eileen Tryon – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This qualitative descriptive study explored how self-contained special education (SPED) teachers described the use and implementation of evidence-based practices (EBP) in relation to the academic growth of students with severe disabilities. The problem statement was it is not known how self-contained SPED teachers describe the use and…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Self Contained Classrooms, Evidence Based Practice, Students with Disabilities
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Östlund, Daniel; Barow, Thomas; Dahlberg, Kajsa; Johansson, Anette – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2021
Based on street-level bureaucracy, this study investigates the paraprofessional role and assignments in self-contained classrooms for students with intellectual disabilities in Sweden. The research design contains a mixed method approach using a digital questionnaire for paraprofessionals (N = 60) and semi-structured interviews with four special…
Descriptors: Special Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Self Contained Classrooms, Work Environment
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