Welcometo

Co-Teachingmadeeasy!

A Presentation for Cincinnati Public Schools Administrators and teachers who are considering Co-Teaching systems in their schools.

Agenda

• Welcome

• Where do you stand?

• Objective/Goals for today

• Ticket out the door

• What is Co-Teaching?

• What is Co-Teaching from the generalist perspective?

• Break

• Planning systems

• Co-Teaching types

• Key components

• Lunch

• Marriage of the Terms

• Video

• Team co-planning

• Parking Lot/Frequently Asked Questions

WHERE DO YOU STAND?

You will know…

* What Co-Teaching is

* Why Co-Teaching is considered a strong delivery model

* What it is should look like when 2 professionals teach in the same room

OBJECTIVE/GOALS FOR TODAY!

Ticket out the

door!

INSTRUCTIONS

• Complete the anticipation/reaction guide using the left side only.

• After completion put aside till prompted.

What is Co-Teaching?

Question?

WHAT EXACTLY IS

Co-Teaching?

Definition of Co-Teaching

• Involves 2 or more professionals

• Involves a heterogeneous group of students

• Involves shared delivery of instruction

• Occurs in a shared physical space

Co-Teaching is:

A Partnership

The sharing of knowledge and skill to maximize student learning.

Joint Accountability

In All Facets of the Classroom

Share in Successes

&

Challenges

TOGETHERNESS

• Cooperative Planning• Cooperative Presenting• Cooperative Processing• Cooperative Problem Solving (1 solution)• Sacrifices are made by both teachers• Flexibility Is Key• No Mine and Yours• Use “we” and “our” when speaking about

yourselves to others and to each other.

Two Experts• General Educator

– Content Expert– Focuses on

Curriculum and Instruction

– Attends to Pacing

• Intervention Specialist – Process Expert– Strategies for how

to learn and how to remember

– Remediation– Accommodations

Never, Never, Never• Never have one teacher just watch

the other one teach. Never have one teacher just helping one child all of the time.

have both teachers actively involved with kids when there are two professionals in the room.

Always

What is Co-Teaching

from the generalist

perspective?

15 MINUTEBREAK

PLANNING SYSTEMS

Planning Systems

ConsultantSystem

Parallelsystem

Instructions

• You have 12 strips of paper in a envelope

• With a partner determine which characteristics depicted fit the teachers.

• Take 10 minutes

Mr. Consultn Withu

aka. Al D. Time

• Redesign worksheets• Adjust worksheet

directions• Addition of graphics for

directions for clarity• Design of study guides,

outlines, concept webs• Audio taping

• Provide visuals to help students see relationships among concepts

• Provide “real life” examples to help students understand abstract ideas.

Ms. Youado Those &

Ms. Illado These

• Grouping done according to interests, readiness or skills, style or random

• Giving students the opportunity to hear the same concepts coming from 2 or more teachers using different styles & materials.

• Teachers take turns instructing & coaching

• Use same instructional unit design, but delivery of lesson different way to groups of students in one or more rooms

• Students grouped, teaching responsibilities determined

Co-Teaching Types

Co-Teaching Types

Key components

THE BIG SHIFT• FROM

– Worrying about the students

• TO– Worrying about us– Worrying about our

relationship– Worrying about the

students

IT’S A MARRIAGE

• Ozzie & Harriet

• Claire & Heathcliff

• Bonnie & Clyde

• Starsky & Hutch

• Booth (Sealy) & Bones (Temperance)

• Beckett (Kate) & Castle (Rick)

Prerequisite SkillsWhat Do You Bring To The Partnership?

• Personal Skills– Willingness to give up some of the control– Parity– Communication/Collaboration is key

Moving From Me to We

“The willingness to work toward a common goal is accompanied by a decrease in concern about individual differences.”

Friend and Cook

Shared System of Beliefs

• Fair Practices in the classroom– Grading– Discipline– Goals for Students– Goals for the Classroom

Collaboration vs communication

Collaboration

“Is a style for direct interaction between at least two co-equal parties voluntarily engaged in shared decision making as they work towards a common goal.”

Communication

“an act of transmitting exchange of information between one or more individuals by use of symbols, signs, gestures, written, verbal, behavior.”

Communication Skills• Verbal

• statements• questions

• Nonverbal– Body Movements facial, eye contact,

gestures– Vocal Cues - quality of voice, pacing, flow– Spatial Relations – distance (personal,

social, public)

• Listening

FEEDBACK

• Should beSolicited – best received when someone

has requested itDirect – give directly to the person that can

use itWell Timed – for interpersonal Feedback,

ask yourself, “Hmmmm, is now the best time to give feedback?”

Collaboration is Emergent

• Trust

• Respect

• Belief in the Value of Collaboration

Factors that Interfere with Listening

• Rehearsing a Response

• Daydreaming

• Hot Words

• Filtering Messages

• Distracted by Extraneous Details

Components of Collaboration

• Personal commitment

• Communication Skills

• Interaction Processes

• Programs and Services

• Context

When Does Collaboration Begin?

• Outside of the classroom– Planning– Shared decision-making– Division of labor– Investigating how students IEP goals fit

into the framework (main curriculum)– Accountability

Collaboration is….

“The perception that by interacting collaboratively, all participants

strengths can be maximized, their weaknesses can be minimized, and

the result will be better for all.”

Friend and Cook

Topics To Discuss at the Onset and Periodically

• Discipline

• Feedback

• Student evaluation

• Teaching Chores

• Confidentiality

• Pet Peeves

Collaboration is Key!!!

• Both educators deliver meaningful instruction

• Both educators are actively involved in the delivery of instruction to students

• Both educators teach a diverse group of students

• Both educators share physical space

Topics to Discuss at the Onset and Periodically

• Expectations for the students

• Planning

• Instructional Format

• Parity

• Space

• Noise

• Routines

Interpersonal Problem-Solving

• Well-defined Problems

• Partially Defined Problem

• Reactive

• Proactive

Steps in InterpersonalProblem Solving

• Identifying the Problem

• Generating Potential Solutions

• Evaluating Potential Solutions

• Implementing the Solution

• Evaluating the Outcome

What 2 people create and implement

together is stronger and more

powerful than what 1 person could do

alone!

SO

HAPPY

TOGETHER!

Lunch!

Marriage of

the Terms

Instructions

Act It Out!

Act It Out Scenarios

• Teacher asking teacher to make copies and then teacher returning with copies.

Act It Out Scenarios

Teacher teaching and then other teacher sitting at desk while teacher teaches. (pans clock 11:00, 11:30, 11:45)

Act It Out Scenarios

• Teacher walks up and asks "what are we doing today?”

Act It Out Scenarios

• One teacher teaches while the other just has to deal with behaviors

Act It Out Scenarios

• Both teachers in front of room co-teaching and both presenting the lesson

Act It Out Scenarios

• One teacher teaching and one teacher charting

Act It Out Scenarios

• Example of station teaching / parallel teaching

 

Team co-planning

Parking Lot…

Frequently Asked Questions…

Ticket out the Door…

Template Provided By

www.animationfactory.com

500,000 Downloadable PowerPoint Templates, Animated Clip Art, Backgrounds and Videos