Challenges of co-teaching in Malaysian inclusive classroom: administrators', teachers' and parents' overview

The implementation of co-teaching in the inclusive classrooms in Malaysia is still in the earliest of stages. Hence this study highlighted the element of challenges in terms of positive relationship among school administrators, teachers and parents. This quantitative study also predicted the relationship by the spirit of acceptance, trust and cooperation stated in the questionnaires. It involved 240 respondents in Malaysia. The application of SEM-PLS 2.0 was used and the study showed that there is a positive relationship between the three variables. There are also few factors from the element of challenges that need to be addressed by the Ministry of Education (MOE) as an administrator to improve the referral process of implementing the co-teaching approach in an inclusive classroom. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Ltd.