An Analysis of Special Education Teachers' Overall Sense of Efficacy Beliefs and Attitudes Toward Co-taught Classrooms

For more than two decades, teacher efficacy has been identified as being crucial for improving educational reform, teacher education, teachers' teaching behaviors, and teachers' attitudes toward inclusive schooling. This study utilized the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) (Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2001), the Scale of Teachers' Attitudes Toward Inclusive Classrooms (STATIC) (Cochran, 1998) and demographic information to investigate the levels of teacher efficacy beliefs and attitudes toward inclusion of 123 special education teachers involved in co-taught education classrooms in 10 school districts across North Carolina.

Comment #46 expressed his challenge as related to reading comprehension. . . .
However, what I see as the most challenging is my lack of experience as a
teacher and lack of knowledge in the core courses. I realize that this will improve
with ...