The special education teaching program in Turkey was united under a single roof with the decision taken by Council of Higher Education 2016. With this decision, programs for teachers hearing impaired, mentally disabled, visually impaired and gifted/special talented were organized as new undergraduate name "Special Teaching". Within scope research, it aimed to improve teacher training process pr...

The vast majority of schools today are not prepared to support children’s social behavior needs. One challenge is that teachers may not be knowledgeable of evidence-based practices that can be utilized with children. This study explored teachers’ agreement ratings for evidence-based and nonevidence-based behavior management practices for children with emotional and behavior needs, and whether s...

The physical environment in the classroom may have an effect on comfort index for Special Education Integration Program (SEIP). A quantitative study was conducted to determine teachers' and SEIP's levels, as well ideas improvement which were relevant needs. Purposive sampling has been used select 80 SEIP teacher samples. questionnaire this modified from Physical Classroom Environment Inventory ...

This article describes a preliminary study investigating whether a specific awareness and training for six teacher–paraprofessional teams would have an effect on the inclusion of six students with mild to severe disabilities in elementary general education environments. An experimental design employing a pretest–posttest control group with matched subjects was used to evaluate the effectiveness...

Chronic and pervasive special education teacher (SET) shortages have interfered with state, district, school efforts to recruit retain effective teachers for students disabilities. Unfortunately, these worsened post-pandemic due early retirements, low unemployment rates, career changes. The purpose of this article is provide a systems thinking (ST) framework help stakeholders consider the compl...

At the EUROCALL conference 2009 in Gandia we, the editors of this special issue decided to blow a breath of fresh air into the Special Interest Group for Teacher Education and were overwhelmed by the response we received during the initial meeting. One of the outcomes was the decision to organize a smaller, 'between conferences' research seminar for those among us who are involved – both as pra...

This study investigates the factors influencing integration of ICT in teacher education in Vietnam, an emerging developing country, at the beginning of integration of ICT. Exploratory multiple regression analysis addresses the importance of different factors at the teacher level and the importance of the teacher education institute for the integration of ICT in teaching practice. The use of ICT...

We present a research work about an innovative national teacher training program in France: the Pairform@nce program, designed to sustain ICT integration. The Pairform@nce trainings are grounded in a principle of collective lesson design by teams of trainees; they associate face-to-face and distant training. We study here a training for secondary school teachers, whose objective is to foster th...