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Teachers’ Perspectives Of Instructing Elementary Students In Reading, Catrina Cooper
Teachers’ Perspectives Of Instructing Elementary Students In Reading, Catrina Cooper
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In a Midwestern, urban, elementary school, a problem is teachers are struggling to support the instructional needs of the students with limited resources and training opportunities. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to examine the perspectives of reading teachers in Grades 3 to 5 about the challenges with meeting the instructional needs of the elementary students at the target site. Gagne’s theory of the conditions for learning and Tomlinson’s theory of differentiated instruction comprised the conceptual framework. Data for this study were collected from semistructured interviews with 10 teachers in Grades 3 to 5 who currently teach or …