Beyond Co-Teaching Basics: A Data-Driven, No-Fail Model for Continuous Improvement

Collaborative teaching, or co-teaching, is a powerful way to support the learning of students with diverse learning needs. But how do you know when you're doing it right? And if you're not, what can you do about that? Authors Wendy W. Murawski and Wendy W. Lochner introduce the Collaborative Teaching Improvement Model of Excellence (CTIME), a continuous improvement model that embraces personalised professional learning to ensure that teachers meet the core competencies for co-teaching without burning out along the way. Incorporating a systematic application of collaborative groups, data analysis, micro-teaching, feedback, and collegial support, CTIME is the culmination of the best research in the field.

As Murawski and Lochner walk you through their data-driven, no-fail model of co-teaching, you'll learn about

• The CTIME process and how it works.
• Co-teaching core competencies measured schoolwide and at the classroom level.
• Assessment of progress toward mastery.
• Co-teaching action plans.
• Professional learning communities and schoolwide improvement.
• Co-teaching communities of practice and micro-teaching.
• Co-teaching facilitation, feedback, and reflection.

Offering a practical approach to achieving mastery of the co-teaching core competencies, this book provides dozens of strategies, resources, and templates that can be used by district-level administrators, principals, and co-teaching teams. If you're ready to examine your co-teaching practices to make sure you're achieving the best possible outcomes for your students, then Beyond Co-Teaching Basics is for you.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. An Introduction to CTIME and PDSA

Chapter 2. Introducing the Co-Teaching Core Competencies

Chapter 3. Laying the Foundation for CTIME: School Change, Professional Learning Communities, and Personalized Professional Learning

Chapter 4. Collecting Data on Co-Teaching

Chapter 5. Action Planning: A Blueprint for Improvement

Chapter 6. Data Analysis and Problem Solving for Schoolwide Improvement

Chapter 7. Team Time: Communities of Practice and Microteaching

Chapter 8. Emphasizing Facilitation, Reflection, and Feedback

Chapter 9. Resources, Forms, and Templates

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