Co-Teaching for Content Understanding

1. Co-Teaching for Content Understanding By Anayo Chukwuegbo

2. Overview of Article • Student population changed from spring 1998-fall1998 • Three teams consisting of 11 teachers were observed…… • Administrator interviews, classroom observation and expert teaching were ……. • Goals was to understand how teachers engaged in co-teaching ……

3. Questions on the Research • What vision and model of co-teaching do school leaders hold? How has the school put the model into practice? • What co-teaching roles do teachers use in their classroom instruction? How do those roles vary across pairs and teams? • How can co-teaching engage students in understanding rigorous content?

4. Method • School setting • Participants • Data sources • Administrator interview • Coteaching observation

5. Outcomes • Things the study looked at in terms of co-teaching programs: • Planning process between the co-teachers • How the school put the model into practice • Actual co-teaching process in the classroom

6. Findings • Parity was present • The school incorporated a number of organizational structures to provide consistent support for teachers collaboration across the teams

7. Friend & Cook characteristics of effective collaboration • Voluntary • Parity among participants • Mutual goals Emergent characteristics: • Building trust & sense of community Potential Barriers • Time and space

8. Characteristics of effective collaboration • Shared responsibility • Shared resources • Shared accountability • Professional • Jointly delivering substantive instruction • Blended groups of students • Single physical space

9. Other things to consider • Shared beliefs • Attitudes • Values