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Collaboration tactics that boost student learning and teacher satisfaction!
Teachers across the country are abandoning the isolation of the past and are turning to their colleagues as a gratifying way to meet the demands of today's rigorous standards. This comprehensive guide highlights the benefits and challenges of co-teaching and imparts the secrets to successful collaborations that supercharge your craft with added productivity, intelligence, and creativity.
In this book, you are led through the planning, implementation, and reflection phases with the help of these practical features:
- Tips on why some co-teaching arrangements work where others fail
- Straightforward self-assessments to make sure that your goals are being met
- Chapters dedicated to each of the different approaches to co-teaching: Supportive, Parallel, Complementary, and Team Teaching
- Quotes and advice from teachers and students who have been successful in co-teaching experiences
- Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about implementing co-teaching, and its effects on teachers, students, and their families
- Ideas for empowering you and your partners to thrive as co-teachers
- Discussion of how administrators can support teachers to move toward co-teaching
Masterfully written by authors who practice the co-teaching they preach, this manual provides vignettes from elementary, middle, and high school classrooms that illustrate how real teachers have answered the tough questions about the sharing of responsibility, the organization of students, and the division of responsibility for teaching, learning, and assessing. |
