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Results of Practice-Based Professional Development for Supporting Special Educators in Learning How to Design Functional Assessment-Based Interventions
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Hirsch, Shanna E.; Randall, Kristina N.; Common, Eric Alan; Lane, Kathleen Lynne – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2020
Content-focused practice-based professional development (PBPD) with active learning is one avenue to support teachers in learning new strategies, practices, and programs. This type of professional development moves away from traditional lectures. In this descriptive study, the authors used a pre-post group design to examine the extent to which a…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Functional Behavioral Assessment
Classroom Pivotal Response Teaching: Teacher Training Outcomes of a Community Efficacy Trial
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Suhrheinrich, Jessica; Rieth, Sarah R.; Dickson, Kelsey S.; Roesch, Scott; Stahmer, Aubyn C. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2020
Classroom Pivotal Response Teaching (CPRT) is a naturalistic behavioral intervention for students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that was systematically adapted for teacher use. In this study, the authors evaluate outcomes of a large randomized trial training teachers (n = 126) to use CPRT. Training involved 12 hours of small group sessions…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Intervention
Preparing Special Education Preservice Teachers to Teach Phonics to Struggling Readers: Reducing the Gap between Expert and Novice Performance
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Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Troy V.; Truckenmiller, Adrea J.; Brehmer, Julie; Hicks, Karen; Chamberlain, Courtney – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2020
In this study, the authors examine the learning of 48 preservice teachers (PSTs) taking a literacy course in special education and the primary-grade struggling readers they tutored in a field component of the course. The primary purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the effects of the course and tutoring on PSTs' knowledge and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Competencies
Effects of Immediate Feedback Using Bug-in-Ear with Paraeducators Working with Students with Autism
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Scheeler, Mary Catherine; Morano, Stephanie; Lee, David L. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2018
In today's autistic-support classrooms, paraeducators are tasked with working with our neediest students yet report that they are unprepared for their roles despite attempts at training. The special education teachers who are tasked with coaching and supervising several paraeducators at a time in their classrooms report that they too are…
Descriptors: Autism, Feedback (Response), Educational Technology, Assistive Technology
eCoaching across Routines to Enhance Teachers' Use of Modeling
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Coogle, Christan Grygas; Rahn, Naomi L.; Ottley, Jennifer Riggie; Storie, Sloan – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2016
The purpose of this research was to determine the impact of eCoaching on two special education teachers' use of modeling strategies across child-led, teacher-led, and mealtime routines. A multiple-probe, single-case design was used to determine the effects of eCoaching on teachers' use of three modeling strategies. Each of the three strategies was…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Special Education Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Modeling (Psychology)