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How Professional Development In Co-Teaching Impacts Self-Efficacy Among Rural High School Teachers, Tori Colson, Yajuan Xiang, Moriah Smothers
How Professional Development In Co-Teaching Impacts Self-Efficacy Among Rural High School Teachers, Tori Colson, Yajuan Xiang, Moriah Smothers
The Rural Educator
The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of professional development in co-teaching on teacher self-efficacy among general and special education rural high school teachers. A causal-comparative research design was used to survey 256 rural high school teachers from the South and Midwest regions of the U.S. to measure their self-efficacy in student engagement, instructional practices, and classroom management. One-way analysis and independent samples t-test was used to analyze these data using SPSS statistical software. The results indicated a significant difference between teachers with and without experience in a co-teaching classroom regarding their efficacy in using instructional practices. …