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How elementary classroom teachers make instructional adaptations for mainstreamed students with mental retardation: a case study

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dc.contributor Curriculum and Instruction
dc.contributor Hutson, Barbara A.
dc.contributor Cline, Marvin Gerald
dc.contributor Gatewood, Thomas E.
dc.contributor Jones, Philip R.
dc.contributor Underwood, Kenneth E.
dc.contributor Janney, R.
dc.creator Dyer, Ronald E.
dc.date 2014-03-14T21:14:06Z
dc.date 2014-03-14T21:14:06Z
dc.date 1992-11-15
dc.date 2008-06-06
dc.date 2008-06-06
dc.date 2008-06-06
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-28T18:22:14Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-28T18:22:14Z
dc.identifier etd-06062008-170109
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38381
dc.identifier http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-170109/
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/269794
dc.description A descriptive case study was designed to investigate how classroom teachers plan and implement instructional adaptations and accommodations for mainstreamed students. Two elementary school classroom teachers, each receiving two mainstreamed students with mental retardation, were observed to determine factors and strategies involved in making instructional adaptations and accommodations. Preactive teaching processes, including consultative and collaborative planning activities, and classroom teacher perceptions about mainstreaming practices were examined. Results indicated five primary types of instructional adaptations: acquisitional, parallel, enabling-social, enabling-academic, and structural. In addition, two other strategies were observed: accommodations and return to the resource room for mainstreamed students. Findings indicated acquisitional adaptations facilitated the integration of mainstreamed students, structural adaptations powerfully affected classroom climate and students' interpersonal relationships for both mainstreamed and nondisabled students, and parallel adaptations had both positive and negative social and instructional implications for mainstreamed students. Enabling-social and enabling-academic adaptations produced increased mainstreamed student participation in classroom instructional activities and experiences. Benefits were found for nondisabled students as well. Preactive teaching processes included variable use of consultative and collaborative strategies and some use of instructional adaptation planning’ routines. Teachers'! planning processes changed over the course of the year; adaptation-making processes moved from the preactive to the interactive teaching phase. Teachers' reported perceptions of mainstreaming varied during the study, but generally remained positive. Based on these results, a taxonomy of descriptions of instructional adaptations as well as descriptions of classroom teachers' planning processes as strategies for mainstreaming students with mental retardation in general education classroom instructional activities and classroom teachers' perceptions of the mainstreaming program were derived.
dc.description Ed. D.
dc.format viii, 233 leaves
dc.format BTD
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dc.language en
dc.publisher Virginia Tech
dc.relation OCLC# 27645715
dc.relation LD5655.V856_1992.D947.pdf
dc.rights In Copyright
dc.rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subject LD5655.V856 1992.D947
dc.subject Children with mental disabilities -- Education (Elementary)
dc.subject Elementary school teachers
dc.subject Mainstreaming in education
dc.title How elementary classroom teachers make instructional adaptations for mainstreamed students with mental retardation: a case study
dc.type Dissertation
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