Teacher Attitudes in the Classroom

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses teacher attitudes toward mainstreaming special needs children into the general education classroom. It discusses the need to create collaborative and supportive systems where teachers do not feel isolated and unsupported in the classroom so that they can effectively overcome barriers to learning that may exist, as well as overcome the largest barrier - the resistance to change. The paper also looks at the strengths and weaknesses of the system.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Perception is Key
Strengths and Weaknesses
Theory and Practice
Action Learning
Action Research
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Learning in the workplace has increased in both efficacy and application with regard to the teaching classroom. This is in part in response to mandates that forced the system to reevaluate the preparedness of teachers in the filed, with regard to mainstreaming students. Different schools and districts of course vary in effectiveness, both by self and outside evaluation in both instructing special needs children and in supporting teachers to do so. Creating collaborative and supported system where teachers do not feel isolated an unsupported in the classroom is essential to overcoming barriers to learning that may exist as well as to overcome the largest barrier the resistance to change. The strengths and weaknesses of the system as it stands are therefore variable to place and time but the classroom itself, if supported is one of the best learning environments for teachers that exists as the experience of teaching cannot be explained in theory as well as it can be lived in the classroom."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Baines, L., Baines, C., & Masterson, C. (1994). Mainstreaming: One School's Reality For More Than Seven Months the Authors Observed Carol Masterson's Classroom at Coats Middle School, a Public School in a Southeastern Suburb of a Large City in Texas. Phi Delta Kappan, 76(1), 39.
• Beswick, J., Willms, J. D., & Sloat, E. (2005). A Comparative Study of Teacher Ratings of Emergent Literacy Skills and Student Performance on a Standardized Measure. Education, 126(1), 116.
• Billett, S. (2001) Learning in the workplace: Strategies for effective practice. Allen and Unwin, Sydney.
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