First Year Co-Teaching: Disclosed through Focus Group and Individual Interviews

Autor/inn/en	Isherwood, Robert; Barger-Anderson, Richael; Merhaut, Joseph; Badgett, Rebecca; Katsafanas, Jodi
Titel	First Year Co-Teaching: Disclosed through Focus Group and Individual Interviews
Quelle	In: Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 17 (2011) 3, S.113-122 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1046-6819
Schlagwörter	Rural Schools; Focus Groups; Familiarity; Management Information Systems; Interviews; School Districts; Team Teaching; Faculty; Administrators; Federal Legislation; Academic Achievement; Partnerships in Education; Qualitative Research; Research Methodology; Educational Change; Disabilities; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Managementinformationssystem; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; School district; Schulbezirk; Teamteaching; Academic Staff; Lehrkörper; Bundesrecht; Schulleistung; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Qualitative Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Bildungsreform; Handicap; Behinderung
Abstract	Focus group interviews and individual interviews were conducted with 47 faculty members and administrators in a rural school district in Western Pennsylvania to determine strategies for consideration when attempting to establish and implement a co-teaching program. Participants were part of a school district in its second year of adopting a co-teaching program. They shared some of the common socio-technical problems experienced in the first year of the co-teaching program and offered suggestions to avoid these problems in the future. Roadblocks identified in successful implementation included: dysfunctional co-teaching relationships, lack of common planning time, skewed classroom composition, lack of curriculum familiarity, and non-compatibility with the school management information system. A description of potential solutions to these roadblocks was also provided. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10