Date of Award

8-2025

Degree Type

Creative Project

Degree Name

Master of Education (MEd)

Department

Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling

Committee Chair(s)

Kaitlin Bundock (Committee Chair)

Committee

Kaitlin Bundock

Committee

Audrey Hoffmann

Committee

Kimberly Snow

Abstract

This project focuses on the importance of collaboration between the special education teacher and general education teacher to better support inclusive practices for students with extensive support needs. Inclusion is an important part of education for a student with disabilities. Research has indicated several benefits of inclusion. Inclusion of students with extensive support needs requires effective collaboration between special and general education teachers. This professional portfolio includes a review of the literature about collaboration to support inclusion of students with extensive support needs, as well as two reports. Report one focuses on the collaboration between special education teacher and general education teachers to find appropriate times for students to be included in the general education classroom. Report one also includes information from general education teachers, a special education teacher, and an administrator related to their use of and perspectives about inclusive practices and collaboration. The second report focuses on collaboration between a general education teacher and a special education teacher to help support teaching of science curriculum for a student with extensive support needs. Activities for this report occurred in the special education classroom to support the student with participating more in the general education classroom with the same unit of science. The report examined whether the student’s understanding the main concepts improves based on the collaborative lessons implemented in both the special and general education settings. Professional reflections are provided as a summary of both report outcomes.

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