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Communication is the KEY: Co-Teaching & Co-Planning

Communication is the KEY: Co-Teaching & Co-Planning. Adapted from Latricia Trites , Ph.D. What is Co-teaching?. Take a few minutes to discuss with your partner how you define co-teaching. What are effective co-teaching characteristics?. Co-Teaching. Partnership Trust Hard work

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Communication is the KEY: Co-Teaching & Co-Planning

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  1. Communication is the KEY:Co-Teaching & Co-Planning Adapted from LatriciaTrites, Ph.D.

  2. What is Co-teaching? • Take a few minutes to discuss with your partner how you define co-teaching. • What are effective co-teaching characteristics?

  3. Co-Teaching • Partnership • Trust • Hard work • Communication • Shared preparation and shared responsibility. • Both are always working. Each section of each lesson should specify roles of both. • Considered a very demanding work arrangement.

  4. Co-Teaching Definition • Two (or more) educators or other certified staff • Contract to share instructional responsibility • For a single group of students • Primarily in a single classroom or workspace • For specific content (objectives) • With mutual ownership, pooled resources, and joint accountability Cook & Friend (2004)

  5. What Co-Teaching Isn’t • One person teaching one subject followed by another person teaching a different subject • One person teaching one subject while another person prepares instructional materials, makes copies, corrects papers, etc. • One person teaching a lesson while other people simply observe • One person’s ideas about what and how to teach being the only ideas implemented • One person being assigned as a tutor Villa, Thousand, & Nevin (2008)

  6. Effective Co-Teaching • Mixes and matches models. • Changes models and roles for variety and interest for learners. • May involve delegation of specific tasks to one teacher (e.g., one is the phonics expert). • Always specifies the role of each teacher in each activity.

  7. Video Example • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llQCG8QhBE • One Teach, One Observe • One Teach, One Assist • Alternative Teaching • Parallel Teaching • Team Teaching

  8. Tips for Effective Co-Teaching • Get to know your partner • Create a workable schedule • Vary instructional practices • Avoid second guessing your partner • COMMUNICATE

  9. Get to Know Your Partner • Discuss personal and professional issues • Discuss any “pet peeves”? • Discuss any health concerns • Discuss learning styles and preferences • Create a signal system for communicating in the classroom

  10. Follow-up Getting to Know You • Now that you’ve worked with your co-teacher for a semester (most of you), take this time to get to know each other better. • What is your personal learning style? • What is your personality type? • What is your teaching style? • When do you plan best? • How do you plan? • Where do you plan? • How do you deal with conflict?

  11. Co-teaching MUST include Co-planning! • Find time to plan together • Discuss what will be taught, how it will be taught, and by whom • Create a “co-teaching” lesson plan template to be used

  12. Effective Planning • Examine Curriculum Guidelines • Learn to write effective objectives • Do long-term planning as well as short-term planning. • Communicate with each other before AND after each co-teaching session.

  13. Goals vs. Objectives • Goals are broad and most often contain many objectives in order to achieve the goal. • Students will write effective short essays. • Objectives are much more specific and contain only ONE observable outcome. • Students will write a topic sentence for a short essay with 70% accuracy.

  14. What are Effective Objectives? • Objectives that are outcomes based – state what the student will accomplish. • Objectives that have only one outcome in each one. • Objectives that can be assessed. • Objectives that answer why an activity is being done.

  15. Objective Examples • Good Objective: • Students will demonstrate their ability to spell current vocabulary words by playing a game of hang man with a level of 75% accuracy in spelling. • Bad Objective: • Students will play hang man.

  16. Co-planning • Both teachers contribute to the planning stage. • Both teachers agree as to which teacher will be responsible for what activity and for what materials. • Both teachers will talk openly with each other AFTER the class to evaluate the effectiveness of the lesson.

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