INTRO TO CO-TEACHING

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INTRO TO CO-TEACHING

• RTSD
• December 7, 2013

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AGENDA

• Reading research and literacy strategy
• Video and note-taking strategy
• Points of discussion and matrix
• Co-teaching strategies
• Collaboration
• Scenarios
• Benefits and Challenges

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Text-based SeminarPurpose to enlarge your
understanding of a text
Framing question What lessons can veterans in
co-teaching teach us?

• Rules
• Listen actively to others
• Build on what others say
• Refer to the text challenge others to go to the
  text
• Make your assumptions explicit
• Watch your own air time give all an equal
  opportunity
• Invite clarifications

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Education is the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper.

• Robert Frost

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Video note-taking strategy

• As you watch, complete the Windows to the Video
  worksheet.
• In your groups, discuss a question each of you
  has raised.

Summarize the main points of the video.
Sketch or diagram something important that you
saw.
Record questions that arose because of something
you saw or heard.
Other notes.
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MATRIX

• Read about the discussion points
• Identify your own beliefs
• Note areas that need further discussion
• Consider non-negotiables
• Plan to compromise

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George Bernard Shaw

• If you have an apple and I have an apple and we
  exchange these apples then you and I will still
  each have one apple. But if you have an idea and
  I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then
  each of us will have two ideas.

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Stages of Collaboration

• Consider how a classroom partnership could be
  like a marriage.
• Where do you stand with likely partners in your
  situation?
• How can you effectively move a co-teaching
  relationship to the Collaborating stage?

• Beginning
• Compromising
• Collaborating

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CO-TEACHING IS ..

• Co-teaching is like ..a marriage..
• Co-teaching is two people sharing responsibility
  for teaching some or all of the students assigned
  to a classroom by distributing the planning,
  instruction, and assessment between the two
  according to a predetermined and fair method.

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CO-TEACHING STRATEGIES

• Simplest approach
• Little planning
• Little coordination
• One teacher provides instruction
• Other teacher monitors classroom for
• management
• understanding
• individual assistance

• Clear division of labor
• Each teacher responsible for planning teaching
  their content
• Content divided into 2 segments and presented in
  two locations in room
• Students switch stations
• Reduced student-teacher ratio

• Most evolved
• share teaching planning for all students
• highest degree of trust
• blend of teaching styles
• reported to be most rewarding

• Lead and Support
• Station teaching
• Parallel teaching
• Alternative teaching
• Team teaching

• Requires joint instructional planning
• teach same general content
• teach simultaneously
• address different learning goals, styles, levels
  of understanding
• group composition is flexible

• Aka Remedial Teaching
• little collaboration in planning
• one teacher selects group of students needing
  different instruction
• used for preteaching, review, reteaching, data
  gathering, teaching learning strategies, etc
• May lead to stigmatization

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VIDEO CASE REVIEW
http//www.specialconnections.ku.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwr
ap/specconn/page/collaboration/coteaching/raydiann
e_vid.html

• Ray and Dianne
• One lead, one support
• Station teaching
• Parallel teaching
• Alternative teaching
• Team teaching

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VIDEO CASE REVIEW
http//www.specialconnections.ku.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwr
ap/specconn/page/collaboration/coteaching/drsuess_
vid.html

• Dr. Suess- Lisa and Dianne
• One lead, one support
• Station teaching
• Parallel teaching
• Alternative teaching
• Team teaching

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VIDEO CASE REVIEW
http//www.specialconnections.ku.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwr
ap/specconn/page/collaboration/coteaching/lisaerin
_vid.html

• Lisa and Erin
• One lead, one support
• Station teaching
• Parallel teaching
• Alternative teaching
• Team teaching

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Case Study

• In grade level groups
• Read scenario
• Discuss type of co-teaching arrangement
• Discuss planning strategy
• Discuss how this might work in your classroom

• Divide group in half
• One half gtgt Make list of benefits
• Other half gtgt Make list of challenges
• Put top 5 of each on posters provided

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Benefits of Co-teaching
Students more accepting of peers Students become active learners Students benefit from different teaching styles and strategies Cohesive programming for special needs students
Collegial relationships develop Resources are shared Management strategies more consistent with frequent feedback Individualization more likely with multiple views of student
Data gathering and assessment increases Increased flexibility in grouping Less wait time increases time on task Students can imitate cooperation of adults
Students and teachers have more fun More immediate and accurate diagnosis of student need Academic gains in literacy Decreased referrals in co-taught classes
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Successful Co-teaching Tips

• Planning
• Discuss your beliefs with partner
• Parity
• Willing partners
• Attend to details and keep your promises
• On-going professional development
• Prepare parents
• Avoid the Glorified Aide trap
• When disagreements occur, talk them out
• Go slowly

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If you always do what youve always done, youll
always get what youve always got.

• Albert Einstein

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PROMISES, VOWS, CONTRACTS

• I promise to
• know you and try to understand your viewpoint
  (communicate)
• clarify goals to avoid hidden agendas
• facilitate a collaborative culture
• recognize and accept our differences
• expect to be held accountable to you and our
  students
• agree to reflect and celebrate often.