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Unit 2: Co-Teaching Models

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Unit Objective: By the completion of this mini-course, participants will demonstrate understanding of various Co-teaching models by selecting the most effective model for a given lesson from a given list of co-teaching models.

Opening Exercise:

  1. Start by opening a new Google Doc. You can title this Google Doc "Unit 2." If you are looking for instructions on how to create a new google doc, please visit the attached link. You will need to be signed into your Google Account for this. We will be using Google Docs for the majority of the units for this mini-course. Every time you are asked to "reflect" please do so on your Google Doc...it will act as a running record of your interaction with the course. https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/.
  2. Put a timer on for 5 minutes
  3. Free write about the various Co-Teaching models you have experienced yourself or that you know about. Write about the benefits and challenges of each model. Additionally, you should think about what Co-Teaching model lends itself best to specific learning objectives or learning activities.. Grammar or length is not important, just truthfully think. We will come back to this reflection at the completion of this course.
  4. When the timer goes off, finish up your last thought. Read over your work and re-acknowledge your personal objective.

Activity 1:

  1. Start by visiting: http://inclusiveclassrooms.org/inquiries/6-co-teaching-structures and the YouTube Video found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJK7PAFtKfs
  2. Poke around and read about the provided 6 Co-Teaching models.
  3. Reflect upon which model you are most familiar, most comfortable, most intimidating, most practical, most irrelevant to your job, etc. Really think about why you may feel that way.

Activity 2:

Take a look a the list of classroom situations below. Determine which co-teaching model you would use in order to effectively teach within each scenario. There is no right or wrong answer, however, you should know why you chose the model you did,

  1. You are in a classroom in which one student has an ongoing BIP. The lesson is on the American Revolution.
  2. You are teaching a math lesson on complex numbers in which students are in distinct present levels of understanding.
  3. You are teaching a lecture on grammar in which some students are struggling to follow along with the content.
  4. Your class is working on individual research projects.
  5. Your learning objective has two distinct parts to it.
  6. You and your co-teacher are able to solve the same math problem in two different ways and would both like to model the procedure.
  7. You want to provide a small group of students with an enrichment project.
  8. You are in a classroom in which one particular student is unable to keep up with the pace of the lesson.

Activity 3:

  1. Think of your next upcoming lesson. Write down the learning object.
  2. Decide which co-teaching model you would select in order to teach this lesson. Why did you pick this lesson?
  3. Read the article: "Tips and Strategies for Co-Teaching at the Secondary Level" by Wendy Murawski and Lisa Dieker, Teaching Exceptional Children June 2004, p. 57. You may find the full text at: https://www.mbaea.org/documents/resources/u_tips_strategies.pdf
  4. Pay special attention to Table 2: Teacher Activities while Co-Teaching.
  5. What strategies could you include in your selected Co-Teaching model?
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