1. Kim Taylor Denise Arseneau Tammy Gallant
Co-Teaching
Kim Taylor
Denise Arseneau
Tammy Gallant

2. Agenda What is Co-Teaching Video Teacher and Students Benefits
Implementation Considerations
Collaboration/Video
Six Models of Co-Teaching
Activity
Wrap-up

3. What is Co-teaching?
Co-teaching is an approach to deliver instruction based on the philosophy of inclusion. Co-teaching encourages collaboration among professionals.

4. Co-teaching is:
Co-Teaching is two or more teachers sharing responsibility for teaching some or all of the students assigned to a classroom.
It involves the distribution of responsibility among teachers for planning, instruction, and evaluation for a classroom of students.

8. Every class has a variety of learners…..
Every teacher is faced with the challenge of meeting the needs of a classroom filled with a variety of learners- their abilities, learning styles, motivation for learning etc.
Collaborative teaching and learning is a must to meet the needs of the class where the students and the teacher both are benefited.

9. Teacher Benefits
Both teachers develop new instructional techniques while teaching and sharing.
New teachers can be given guidance and mentoring
Effective modelling for students

10. Student Benefits
Better address the diverse needs of students by creating ongoing effective programming in the classroom.
A wider use of instructional techniques to better student learning
More and better critical, planning and reflective practices by teachers
Social skills improvement/better classroom management.
A more ‘community’ oriented classroom
Increase participation and independence of all students

11. Implementation Considerations
Co-teaching partnership: Understand self and partner, Effective interpersonal, collaborative and problem-solving skills, flexible, familiar with the curriculum, trust and respect must exist, commitment to goals
Administrative support: Must understand and support co-teaching model. Coordinate schedules.
Pre-planning components: Physical arrangement, Curriculum goals and modifications, Instructional planning, Instructional presentation, Classroom management, Assessment
Planning: Very important to have an agenda in order to use time effectively, share workload, resources and expertise, communicate effectively, assess effectiveness.

12. Key to Success The power of co-teaching comes from the collaboration.
Co-teachers must ensure that their students see them as equals if they expect students to take them seriously and learn all they can from BOTH teachers.
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14. Co-Teaching Models One teach, one observe Station Teaching
Parallel Teaching
Team Teaching
One Teach , One Assist
Alternate Teaching

16. Station Teaching
-The teachers divide the lesson and each takes responsibility for planning and teaching part of it.
-Students rotate from one station to another and receive the rest of their instruction from the other co-teacher.
-A third station can be used for independent work or peer tutoring.

17. Station Teaching Disadvantages: Advantages: Noise Movement
Shared Responsibilities and skills
Students get to see different teaching styles
Lower teacher-student ratios
Equal status of both teacher and students can be maximized
Disadvantages:
Noise
Movement
Material that is sequential cannot be taught using this approach

18. TeamTeaching
Teachers plan and share instruction of all students, whether it occurs in a large group, in monitoring students working independently or in facilitating groups of students working on shared projects

19. Team Teaching Advantages: Disadvantages:
Enhances student participation
Shared planning and instruction by both teachers for the large group
Teachers are able to have instructional conversation with each other and students.
Can be energizing and entertaining
Disadvantages:
If teachers are not comfortable working together in a classroom, the discomfort may be communicated to students.
May not be comfortable for new partnerships of teachers.
Loss of the valuable instructional technique of grouping

20. Parallel Teaching
Teachers divide the class into two heterogeneous groups and then each one teaches the same information to one group.  While the content will be the same for both teachers/groups, the method of delivery can be different.

21. Parallel Teaching Disadvantages: Advantages:
Lowers student-to-teacher ratio.
Increased interaction among students and teachers.
Enables teachers to more closely monitor individual students
Disadvantages:
Requires significant planning and teaching skill so that both groups of students will get the same instruction.
Can be noisy and distracting and requires both teachers to similarly pace instruction

23. Alternate Teaching
One teacher instructs a larger “Main” group, while the other teacher works with a smaller group for a specific instructional purpose

24. Alternate Teaching Disadvantages: Advantages:
Can be stigmatizing if the small group always consists of the same students
May diminish one teacher’s authority
Advantages:
Useful for enrichment and acceleration
Pre-teaching and Re-teaching
Is Inclusive

25. One Teach, One Assist
One teacher takes the lead during instruction while the other circulates throughout the classroom to monitor student progress and provide assistance to individual students as needed.

26. One Teach, One Assist Advantages: Disadvantages:
Allows the "assist" teacher to directly help and monitor the progress of individual students.
Provides opportunities for each teacher to share roles and responsibilities when working with students.
Disadvantages:
-Can diminish the ‘assist’ teacher’s authority, especially if the same teacher always assumes this role.

27. One Teach, One Observe
One teacher leads instruction while the other supports instructional process. (redirect attentions and answers questions).

28. One Teach, One Observe Advantages: Disadvantages:
Requires little joint planning
Both teachers can use this approach to deepen their shared understanding of students while learning about each other’s teaching styles.
Disadvantages:
If it is used exclusively, it can results in one professional, most typically the resource teacher or specialist, being viewed as the role of the assistant.
For this approach to be beneficial, the educator should exchanges roles periodically.

30. Activity
Show what you know!

31. Tips for Effective Co-Teaching
Get to know your partner
Create a workable schedule
Ensure the results are measurable
COMMUNICATE

32. Resources
Books:
Friend, M. & Cook, L. (2010). Interactions: collaboration skills for school professionals. (6th ed.) Upper Saddle River: Pearson.
Muralaski, W.W. L. A. (2013). Leading The Co-Teaching Dance. Leadership Strategies to Enhance Team Outcomes.
Articles:
Gately, S.E. & Gately, F. J. (2001). Understanding coteaching components. Teaching Exceptional Children, 33(4), 40-47
Murawski, W. W. & Dieker, L. A. (2004). Tips and Strategies for Co-Teaching at the Secondary Level. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 36(5), 52-58
Murawski, W. W. & Dieker, L. A. (2008). 50 Ways to Keep Your Co-Teacher Strategies for Before, During and After Co-Teaching, TEACHING Exceptional Children, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp
Education Support Services Teams: Instructional Coaching Model, Service of New Brunswick, Draft 2013.
Website:
What is co-teaching? ( retrieved May 1st 2011)
Co-Teaching: Principles, Practices, and Pragmatics. ( retrieved May 1st 2011)
Maryland Learning Links
You Tube-