Co-Teaching Vocabulary

What does the legal phrase "access to and progress in the general curriculum" mean?

• we have to pack too many students into the available classes taught by too few teachers.
• we need more sections of more core classes to be taught by special education teachers.
• all students should be taught the TEKS, even if they are way over their heads.
• if the TEKS are the most important content and skills for most students, all students should be learning them.

What is Inclusion?

• regular classes composed of all students, regardless of student readiness and ability.
• a belief system that values diversity and fosters a shared responsibility to help all students to reach their potential. 
• a federal and state mandate from legislators.
• the blockage or closing of a blood vessel or hollow organ.

What is co-teaching?

• when two or more teachers share a class and alternate teaching every other week.
• when one teacher pairs up with a special ed. teacher to does pull outs and tutoring.
• when one gen. ed. teacher and one special ed. teacher plan modifications and accommodations for the special ed. students.
• when one gen. ed. teacher and one spec. ed. teacher collaborate on lesson planning, instruction, classroom management, and grading for a class.

How is co-teaching beneficial to teachers?

• the classroom teacher doesn't have to worry about making enough copies ahead of time.
• it means no teacher has to wait until the end of class to go to the bathroom.
• it provides someone to manage behavior so the classroom teacher can focus on teaching.
• each teacher can learn from the other.

How is co-teaching beneficial for students?

• you can put more students in each section because there are two teachers in the room.
• it allows real world socialization opportunities for students with disabilities.

• students get content from a content expert and multiple ways to learn it from an access expert.
• students are taught in classrooms with better resources and materials than the special ed. classrooms.