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As inclusion practices reach more and more classrooms, regular education teachers and special education teachers are increasingly sharing space, students and accountability. The classroom---once the realm of just one teacher---has now become the shared domain of two educators, each with unique experience, training and expertise.
What makes for a great team? How can both educators get maximum benefit from their collaboration?
The Fundamentals of Co-Teaching card summarizes the best practices of Co-Teaching, the teaming of a Regular Educator with a Special Educator.
This card includes all the major strategies of Co-Teaching---techniques proven by research and classroom implementation.
This card provides:
- The Roles and Responsibilities of each Educator. Learn the unique roles of each educator and how they interrelate.
- Your, Mine, Ours? Learn how to share students, space, resources and successes.
- Grading. Tips on the best ways to handle grading policies.
- The Role or Parents. Discussed is what to explain to parents about the co-teaching process.
- Planning. Learn the best ways to implement joint planning
- Goals and Expectations This extensive section of the card discusses how to establish goals and expectations that make sense for both team members. Covered here are:
- Lesson Planning
- Lesson Presentation
- Assessment
- Exchange of Information
- Materials and Space
- Conveying Information
- Classroom Management
- Identifying Student Need
- Benefits to Students
- Models of Co-Teaching, The entire back of the card is devoted to these five models of Co-Teaching:
- Station/Center Teaching
- Assisted/Support Teaching
- Team Teaching
- Large group/Small group Teaching
- Parallel Teaching (Two Heterogeneous Group)
Included for these models are: Benefits, Disadvantages and When To Use.
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