ERIC Number: EJ1058234
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-1555-6913
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Effects of Training on Pre-Service Special Educators' Abilities to Co-Teach Math Vocabulary in Preparation for Inclusion Settings
Harris, Paulette Proctor; Pollingue, Alice B.; Hearrington, Doug; Holmes, Arthur
Journal of the International Association of Special Education, v15 n2 p94-99 Fall 2014
New special education teachers often struggle to teach children the mathematics vocabulary necessary to understand and effectively solve math word problems. The authors designed and implemented a pilot program to prepare pre-service teachers majoring in special education to implement the Camelot Learning Math Intervention Program (CLMIP). We met with participants an hour a day, twice a week, for five weeks over the summer to study the impact of learning to implement CLMIP on participants' comfort levels with teaching mathematics vocabulary. The pre-service teachers taught the CLMIP program in co-teaching pairs to prepare them for later co-teaching in inclusive settings. Over the course of three summers, 30 participants completed the program. A one-group pretest-posttest design was implemented using a Wilcoxon Signed-rank test and follow-up interviews to measure change in participants' vocabulary teaching comfort levels. Findings indicated that the program resulted in significant improvement of comfort levels, z = 6.357, p < 0.0005, with a large effect size, r = 0.82. The results suggest that teacher education programs and school districts desiring to improve the skills of their teachers practicing in regular and inclusion classroom settings may benefit from implementing a similar program.
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Teacher Competencies, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Disabilities, Word Problems (Mathematics), Intervention, Summer Programs, Program Effectiveness, Pretests Posttests, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Team Teaching, Cooperative Planning, Teaching Skills
International Association of Special Education. c/o College of Education, Northern Arizona University, P.O. Box 5774, Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5774. Tel: 928-523-8979; Fax: 928-523-1929; Web site: http://iase.coe.nau.edu/index3.html
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Georgia
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