Co-Teaching

Debriefing How did it go? Good? Bad? Ugly? Concerns? Questions about the explicit lesson

plan?

Wiki Making new pages Uploading documents Linking to pages and documents Scheduling observations

Coming up…. Student Teaching Handbook Reflection on this week of observation due by Monday.

Upload to Wiki. Class Schedules Assumptions chart p. 26-28 (due next class) Vodcast due Feb 3 Next week…at least one wonderfully crafted lesson! You are to be teaching (something)by the week of Feb

6th! We could possibly start observations the week of

February 6th , for sure by February 13th ! Posting Lesson Plans and weekly reflections

Co-Teaching(or how to spec ed in someone else’s classroom)

Co-Teaching is an educational approach in which two teachers work in a coactive and coordinated fashion to jointly teach academically and behaviorally heterogeneous groups of students in an integrated setting.

Benefits of Co-Teaching Expedites transition into the general education

setting Enables teachers to function on a proactive

basis Increases job satisfaction Reduces stress and burnout Increases teaching and learning potential Decreases problems with generalization across

settings Provides students with more cohesive programs

Benefits of Co-Teaching (contd.) Provides the expertise of two professionals

in planning and problem solving Provides students with a model of

collaboration Allows students to work with teachers with

different styles Allows student assessment to be classroom-

based Increases the potential for students who are

having difficulty to receive assistance

Co-Teaching Components Co-Planning * Co-Instructing Co-Assessing

Co-Teaching There are 5 models of what co teaching

can look like (6 really) One teach, one support Station teaching Parallel teaching Alternative teaching Team teaching One teach, one come in and modify tests

One Teach, One Support Most Common One lead teacher (usually the core

certified teacher) Teaches the class

One support teacher (usually the special education teacher) Circulates and gives individual support to

all students (special ed and general ed) Little co-planning happens

Station Teaching Teachers divide content Students are distributed evenly (both

teachers teach both gen ed and spec ed)

Separate but shared responsibilities

Parallel Teaching Both teachers teach the same content

(at the same time Each deliver instruction to half the class

(heterogeneous make up of students in each half)

Joint planning (including accommodations and modifications)

Alternative Teaching One large group, one small group Small group pre-teaches, reinforces or

reteaches large group Small group can be made of both spec ed

and gen ed students Joint planning

*Team Teaching Shared instruction Coordinated activities in one lesson Mutual trust and commitment Co-planning

Reflection on this week of observation due by Monday. Upload to Wiki.

Make a wiki page/link to a page with your classroom/day schedule

Assumptions chart p. 26-28 (due next class) Vodcast due next week! (Feb 3) Next week….at least one wonderfully crafted lesson. You are to be teaching (something)by the week of

February 6th! We could possibly start observations the week of

February 6th , for sure by February 13th ! Posting Lesson Plans/Reflections