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A descriptive study of coteaching in Florida: From teacher education to implementation

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Date Issued:
1996
Summary:
One of the recent trends in special education is inclusion. A new instructional strategy, coteaching, assists teachers in meeting the demands of a diverse group of students. Coteaching involves general and special educators jointly planning, instructing, and assessing all learners in an integrated classroom. The purpose of this study was to compile descriptive research on the prevalence of coteaching in Florida and investigate the degree to which Florida's state universities are preparing preservice teachers for a coteaching instructional setting. The data was collected through surveys that were completed by university faculty and facilitators at the Florida Inclusion Network (FIN). The data were analyzed using a frequency and percentage table. As a result, coteaching was found to be quite prevalent in Florida. According to participants, preservice programs at the universities should include training for coteaching settings.
Title: A descriptive study of coteaching in Florida: From teacher education to implementation.
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Name(s): Earley, Deborah L.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Scott, Jack, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1996
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 38 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: One of the recent trends in special education is inclusion. A new instructional strategy, coteaching, assists teachers in meeting the demands of a diverse group of students. Coteaching involves general and special educators jointly planning, instructing, and assessing all learners in an integrated classroom. The purpose of this study was to compile descriptive research on the prevalence of coteaching in Florida and investigate the degree to which Florida's state universities are preparing preservice teachers for a coteaching instructional setting. The data was collected through surveys that were completed by university faculty and facilitators at the Florida Inclusion Network (FIN). The data were analyzed using a frequency and percentage table. As a result, coteaching was found to be quite prevalent in Florida. According to participants, preservice programs at the universities should include training for coteaching settings.
Identifier: 9780591333930 (isbn), 15400 (digitool), FADT15400 (IID), fau:12167 (fedora)
Note(s): College of Education
Thesis (M.Ed.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.
Subject(s): Inclusive education--Florida
Student teachers--Training of--Florida
Mainstreaming in education--Florida
Teachers--Training of--Florida
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