Developing Educators for Inclusive Classrooms through a Rural School-University Partnership:

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Abstract

This narrative illustrates a school-university partnership's attempt to prepare inclusive educators for working in inclusive classrooms. This partnership, located in a rural school located in the southeastern United States, consisted of collaboration between a variety of stakeholders, including school- and university-based educators and district partners committed to preparing a context for preservice teacher and inservice teacher learning. The narrative shares how the partnership's initiatives assisted in developing preservice teachers as inclusive educators, enhanced inservice teachers' capacity to teach in inclusive classrooms, created preservice teacher interest in working in rural schools, and improved student outcomes.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)13-22
Number of pages10
JournalThe Rural Special Education Quarterly
Volume35
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2016

Keywords

  • rural special education
  • clinically rich teacher education
  • job embedded professional development
  • teacher learning
  • co-teaching

Disciplines

  • Political Science
  • Curriculum and Instruction

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