Co-Teaching!

During a lesson, a whole group discussion is held. One teacher leads the discussion. While using the SMART board the other teacher records the students’ names and responses.

• One teach, one observe

• One teach, one assist

• Station teaching

• Parallel Teaching

• Alternative teaching

A few students are struggling in history class. Sam is not completing any assessments. Jason, Jose, and Jennifer appear to be struggling with the current unit. The co-teachers decide more data is needed to determine individual needs of some students. For the next lesson, one teacher will lead the instruction and the other teacher will collect data to see what these targeted students are doing during class time.

• One teach, one observe

• One teach, one assist

• Parallel teaching

• Team Teaching

A lesson is planned on collecting data on student long jumps and to determine the average for the group. The co-teachers plan to divide the class in half and do the same collection of data in two different parts of the room.

• Team Teaching

• Station teaching

• Parallel teaching

• Alternative teaching

In ELA, we are studying analysis of theme. After a brief introduction, the class will be divided into three groups, and each group will rotate through three stations. One station will be theme in a novel, another station will be theme in a poem, and the last station will be theme in a short story. The special education teacher will lead one group, the content teacher will lead a group, and the third group will be independent work.

• One teach, one assist

• Parallel teaching

• Alternative teaching

• Station teaching

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The class has been working on solving equations and simplifying expressions. After the end-of-unit assessment, some students demonstrated mastery of the content and others didn't. Some students didn't seem to have an understanding of properties (commutative, distributive, etc.), and a few students lacked basic multiplication and division skills. For the next lesson, 1 co-teacher will work with a small group of students re-teaching some of the prior unit's content.

• Alternative teaching

• Parallel teaching

• Team teaching

Tags

CCSS.8.EE.C.7B

Students will understand this science experiment better if they can get closer, see better, and are able to talk more informally about what is going on in the experiment. We have 25 students in the class. What if we divide them in half and do the same experiment in two parts of the room? We can answer questions and have the students do their lab reports in smaller groups. Both groups are doing the same activity with no modifications.

• Alternative teaching

• Team teaching

• Parallel teaching

In Social Studies, we are studying various forms of government. Both my co-teacher and I explicitly teach about democracy, communism, marxism, and socialism. We finish each other's ... sentences.

• Parallel teaching

• Team teaching

One teacher is re-teaching or pre-teaching with a small group; the other teacher is monitoring a large group as they work on practice materials.

• Parallel Teaching

• Team Teaching

• Station Teaching

• Alternative Teaching

• One Teach; One Assist

What type of co-teaching is being employed when: one teacher instructs the class, the other supports individual students during whole class instruction on the same material.

• One-Teach, One-Assist

• Parallel Teaching

• Team Teaching

• Station Teaching

One teacher provides direct instruction for a small group of students while the other teacher works with the larger group.

• Station Teaching

• Team Teaching

• Alternative Teaching

• One-Teach, One-Assist