Co-teaching experiences: the benefits and problems that teachers and principals report over time.
This report describes a 3-year study of 18 elementary and 7 middle school teams involved in the development and implementation of building-level programs designed to support students with disabilities in mainstream classrooms. All of the teams used co-teaching as an integral part of their service delivery models. During the investigation, 119 teachers and 24 administrators participated in 1 or more years of data collection. The emerging benefits and persistent problems that participants identified in the development of their models are described.
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Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership Program, School of Education, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA 23185, USA.
D000288:Administrative Personnel; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D005178:Faculty; D006311:Hearing Disorders; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities; D008282:Mainstreaming, Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017145:Models, Educational; D013064:Speech Disorders; D014768:Virginia