Re: New member Introduction

Ilda Carreiro King (kingil who-is-at bc.edu)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 11:25:50 -0500

Gordon,
You have pinpointed my next area of reveiw for the discussionof the
dissertation. What I wanted to find was that sped students in
Learner-centered classrooms (LC) were more motivated and had higher?
perceptions of teacher practices than their sped peers in non-learner-centered
classrooms (NLC) and that sped students in NLC classrooms were signficantly
lower than all reg ed students and their peers overall in motivation and
perceptions of practices..

My research instead showed that sped students were no more or less motivated
in either type of classroom and that the reg ed students in NLC were the
lowest of all.

As for perceptions of teacher practices, within LC classrooms, the sped
students vary signficantly from the non sped peers in viewing what the teacher
is doing.

Possible explanations drawn from experience: In my consulting, I have pushed
school systems to entertain the possibility that although the reg ed teacher
may be teaching strategies, study skills, etc., the sped student may not be
perceiving what the teacher does like the non sped students- needs more
explicit instruction and follow-up.