A Guide To Co Teaching
- 1. A Guide to Co-Teaching Practical Tips for Facilitating Student Learning Richard A Villa Jacqueling S. Thousand Ann I. Nevin
- 2. What is Co-Teaching Two or more people sharing responsibility for teaching some or all of the students assigned to a classroom. It involves the distribution of responsibility among people for planning, instruction, and evaluation for a classroom of students.
- 3. What Co-teaching is not. It is not one person teaching one subject followed by another who teaches a different subject. It is not one person teaching one subject while another person prepares instructional materials at the Xerox machine or corrects papers in the teacher’s lounge. It is not occurring when one teacher conducts a lesson and others stand or sit by and watch. It is not happening when the ideas of one person prevail for what is to be taught or how it will be taught. Finally, co-teaching is not simply the assignment of someone to act as a tutor.
- 4. The Elements of Co-Teaching Two or more people who coordinate their work to achieve at least one common, publicly agreed on goal. Two or more people who share a belief system that each of the co-teaching members has unique and needed expertise.
- 5. Demonstrate parity by alternatively engaging in the dual roles of teacher and learner, expert and novice, giver and recipient of knowledge or skills. Use a distributed functions theory of leadership in which the task and relationship functions of the traditional lone teacher are distributed among all co-teaching group members.
- 6. Use a cooperative process that includes face-to-face interaction, positive interdependence, performance, as well as monitoring and processing of interpersonal skills, and individual accountability.
- 7. Cooperative Process Face to face interactions Positive Interdependence Interpersonal skills Monitoring Co-Teacher Progress Individual Accountability
- 8. What Does Co-Teaching Look Like? Four Approaches Supportive Teaching Parallel Teaching Complementary Teaching Team Teaching.
- 9. Supportive Teaching When one teacher takes the lead instructional role and the other(s) rotates among the students to provide support. The co-teacher taking the supportive role watches or listens while students work, stepping in to provide one-to-one tutorial assistance when necessary.
- 10. Parallel Teaching When two or more people work with different groups of students in different sections of the classroom. Co-teachers may rotate among the groups.
- 11. Complementary Teaching When co-teachers do something to enhance the instruction provided by the other co-teachers. For example one co-teacher might paraphrase the others statement or model note-taking skills on a transparency.
- 12. Team Teaching When two or more people do what the traditional teacher has always done—plan, teach, assess, and assume responsibility for all the students in the classroom. They share the leadership and responsibilities. The key to successful team teaching is that co-teachers simultaneously deliver the lesson.
- 13. A successful team-teaching partnership is that the students view each teacher as knowledgeable and credible.
- 14. Planning For Starting Out As Co-Teachers You need to clear what your rationale and objectives are for co-teaching so that you can communicate the rationale and objectives to your partners. Decide on global issues regarding how you will get to know the learning characteristics of the students, what content you will teach, instructional procedures and the ways in which you will assess learning.
- 15. Finding and Creating Time For Planning Borrowed time. Common Time Tiered Time Rescheduled Time Released Time Freed-Up Time Purchased Time Found Time New Time
- 16. Tips For Getting Along With Your Co – teachers Keep Communication Alive Understand the developmental nature of co-teaching relationships. Manage Conflict.
- 17. Making it Work Dare to have fun. Meet all students needs. Learn something new everyday.