Research

I received the co-teaching surveys we sent out to middle and high school teachers with experience co-teaching. The results are a little shocking to me. I thought they would be overwhelmingly positive, but this is not the case. Our group was particularly interested in comparing the attitudes of general and special education teachers. So far the findings seem to show that as a whole, special education teachers have more positive things to say about co-teaching. The general education population that was surveyed seems split 50/50 for "is it working?" I found this very interesting.

I also found it interesting that out of the 22 surveys 5 teachers thought co-teaching helped the general education students MORE than the special education students. Now 5/22 isn't a huge ratio, but it is far more than I expected. I would assume that people would have the mindsight that co-teaching only benefits special education students and may even hurt general education students. It was interesting that this handful of teachers saw the exact opposite.

I am now in the process of "number crunching" and trying to determine number scales for each question we asked. I am anxious to see the final results!