Co-Teaching With Data-Driven Instruction: Why Looking Busy Isn’t Enough
Lessons from the Assembly Line After high school, I worked in a factory to put myself through college. The assembly line had production quotas, dictating how many “pieces” we had to produce per hour. One of the first things I learned was to look busy. As a young...
A Dozen Ways to Co-Teach Successfully!
Introduce each other’s roles in the classroom as equal but different. For example, the general education teacher can be the content area specialist, while the special education teacher is the learning strategies specialist. Some co-teaching teams prefer not to...
Co-Teaching: An Opportunity to Teach by Example
The Power of Collaboration Back in 2003, I was coaching co-teachers at a high school in a tough part of town. I walked into a classroom with just a list of room numbers and teacher names. I didn’t know who the special education teacher was or who the English...
Long-term Coaching – The Unique, Hidden Benefits
It happened again… …and it only took until March! Reflecting on my 20 plus years of coaching co-teaching teams, I’ve recognized a pivotal trend: the trans-formative power of ongoing, long-term, collaborative coaching for co-teaching pairs. ...