Guide to Co-Teaching: New Lessons and Strategies to Facilitate Student Learning

Differentiated instruction for a diversity of learners—it's the reality of today's classrooms, and a tough task to take on alone. But co-teaching more than just lightens your load. When you and a co-teacher bring together your individual skill sets and strategies, you'll create a more enjoyable, creative, and productive teaching experience—and deliver more effective outcomes to your students, too.

Where do you start? This brand-new edition of the go-to guide uses updated research and case studies to provide detailed profiles of four approaches to co-teaching: supportive, parallel, complementary, and team-teaching. New features include:

• Brand-new chapter on preparing co-teachers in clinical practice, with examples

• Expanded explanations of the roles of paraprofessionals, administrators, and students in co-teaching

• Updated discussions of co-teaching in the RTI process

• New lesson plans linked to the Common Core State Standards and technology

• New forms and tools for establishing trust, improving communication, and planning

With quotes and advice from teachers and students, plus practical features like self-assessments and organisation tips, this is the ultimate guide to co-teaching. Find out why so many teachers prefer co-teaching to teaching alone and how co-teaching improves the process of learning for all students!

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures

Letter to the Reader

New to This Edition

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Part I. Introduction to Co-Teaching

1. What Is Co-Teaching?
2. Why Co-Teach? What History, Law, and Research Say
3. The Day-to-Day Workings of Co-Teaching Teams

Part II. The Four Approaches to Co-Teaching

4. The Supportive Co-Teaching Approach
5. The Parallel Co-Teaching Approach
6. The Complementary Co-Teaching Approach
7. The Team-Teaching Co-Teaching Approach

Part II Summary

Part III. Changing Roles and Responsibilities

8. The Role of Paraprofessionals in Co-Teaching
9. The Role of Students as Co-Teachers

Part IV. Administrative Support and Professional Development

10. Training and Logistical Administrative Support for Co-Teaching
11. Co-Teaching in Teacher Preparation Clinical Practice
12. Meshing Planning With Co-Teaching
13. From Surviving to Thriving: Tips for Getting Along With Your Co-Teachers
14. Developing a Shared Voice Through Co-Teaching

Resource A: Checklist of Sample Supplemental Supports, Aids, and Services

Resource B: Co-Teaching Daily Lesson Plan Format

Resource C: High School Supportive Co-Teaching Lesson Plan

Resource D: Elementary Parallel Co-Teaching Lesson Plan

Resource E: Middle-Level Complementary Co-Teaching Lesson Plan

Resource F: Elementary Team Teaching Co-Teaching Lesson Plan

Resource G: Co-Teaching Lesson Featuring the Paraprofessional Role

Resource H: Co-Teaching Lesson Featuring Students as Co-Teachers

Resource I: Levels of Student Support

Resource J: Administrator Actions to Promote Co-Teaching

Resource K: Action Plan Template

Resource L: Co-Teaching Planning Meeting Agenda Format

Resource M: Self-Assessment: Are We Really Co-Teachers?

Resource N: Checklist of Skills for the Stages of Co-Teacher Development

Resource O: Instructional Observation Form

Resource P: Instructional Postconference Form

Resource Q: Co-Teaching Tracking Form

Resource R: Co-Teaching Differentiation Lesson Planning Matrix

Glossary

References

Photo Credits

Index