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. Today was another reminder. I was working with an [...]
Sometimes it's hard to know how best to work together in support of students when you and your co-teacher seem to be so different. There are almost always things that you can do, or ways to make the co-teaching relationship work, even when you and your partner appear to be operating from different p [...]
#13 Both Teach Half—Same Objective, Same Way - The HOW of Co-teaching This implementation clearly describes the Parallel Teaching co-teaching model. Each co-teacher takes half the class and instructs the students, using the same methods, to teach the same content. They are working together in parall [...]
#8 One Guide Tech and One Facilitate Discussion - The HOW of Co-teaching In this implementation of the co-teaching models, one co-teacher presents instruction and leads discussion based on student real-time responses. During the discussion, the other co-teacher monitors the computer, interacts with [...]
One of the key elements of my new book, “Best Practices for Co-Teaching & Collaboration” is a huge range of co-teaching models that can be applied to a number of classroom situations.