Degree Name
EdD (Doctor of Education)
Program
Educational Leadership
Date of Award
12-2017
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
Virginia Foley
Committee Members
Pamela Scott, John Boyd, Lori Marks
Abstract
Co-teaching is defined as a general education teacher and special education teacher, who may or may not have the same area of expertise, jointly delivering instruction to a group of students with special needs in a special education classroom. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the perceptions of general and special education teachers in regard to forming coteaching relationships in a school setting organized to serve special education students through coteaching models. Participants were purposefully sampled following the typical case sampling strategy and included two public schools. Of the two schools, there were five special education teachers and two general education teachers who participated in in-depth interviews based on open-ended questions from a predetermined interview guide. Analysis of transcripts from the interviews helped identify the findings for this study. Through the analysis of the transcripts the data revealed becoming a coteacher, communication, coplanning, continuity of teachers, and roles and responsibilities of coteachers were factors of forming a cohesive coteaching relationship.
Document Type
Dissertation - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Case, Matthew, "A Qualitative Case Study of Coteaching Relationships" (2017). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3327. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3327
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.