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Six Approaches To Co-Teaching

The document discusses co-teaching as a service delivery option for meeting the educational needs of students with diverse learning needs. Co-teaching involves two certified professionals sharing instructional responsibilities for a single group of students, with mutual ownership and accountability. The document outlines six approaches to co-teaching: one teach one observe, one teach one assist, parallel teaching, station teaching, alternative teaching, and team teaching. These approaches allow for more individualized instruction, increased student understanding and respect, and professional support between teachers.

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Six Approaches To Co-Teaching

The document discusses co-teaching as a service delivery option for meeting the educational needs of students with diverse learning needs. Co-teaching involves two certified professionals sharing instructional responsibilities for a single group of students, with mutual ownership and accountability. The document outlines six approaches to co-teaching: one teach one observe, one teach one assist, parallel teaching, station teaching, alternative teaching, and team teaching. These approaches allow for more individualized instruction, increased student understanding and respect, and professional support between teachers.

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In their book, Interactions: Collaboration Skills for School Professionals,

Marilyn Friend and Lynne Cook identify "co-teaching as


a specific service delivery option that is based on
collaboration." As a service delivery option, co-
teaching is designed to meet the educational needs of
students with diverse learning options.

Students at all academic levels benefit from alternative assignments and greater
teacher attention in small-group activities that co-teaching makes possible. Co-teaching
allows for more intense and individualized instruction in the general education setting
increasing access to the general education curriculum while decreasing stigma for
students with special needs. Students have an opportunity to increase their
understanding and respect for students with special needs. Students with special needs
have a greater opportunity for continuity of instruction as the teachers benefit from the
professional support and exchange of teaching practices as they work collaboratively.

Co-teaching involves two or more certified professionals who contract to share


instructional responsibility for a single group of students primarily in a single classroom
or workspace for specific content or objectives with mutual ownership, pooled resources
and joint accountability. (Friend & Cook 2016)

Six Approaches to Co-Teaching

1. One Teach, One Observe. One of the advantages in co-teaching is that more


detailed observation of students engaged in the learning process can occur. With this
approach, for example, co-teachers can decide in advance what types of specific
observational information to gather during instruction and can agree on a system for
gathering the data. Afterward, the teachers should analyze the information together.

 
2. One Teach, One Assist. In a second approach to co-teaching, one person would
keep primary responsibility for teaching while the other professional circulated through
the room providing unobtrusive assistance to students as needed.

3. Parallel Teaching. On occasion, student learning would be greatly facilitated if they


just had more supervision by the teacher or more opportunity to respond. In parallel
teaching, the teachers are both covering the same information, but they divide the class
into two groups and teach simultaneously.

 
4. Station Teaching. In this co-teaching approach, teachers divide content and
students. Each teacher then teaches the content to one group and subsequently
repeats the instruction for the other group. If appropriate, a third station could give
students an opportunity to work independently.

5. Alternative Teaching: In most class groups, occasions arise in which several


students need specialized attention. In alternative teaching, one teacher takes
responsibility for the large group while the other works with a smaller group.

 
6. Team Teaching: In team teaching, both teachers are delivering the same instruction
at the same time. Some teachers refer to this as having one brain in two bodies. Others
call it tag team teaching. Most co-teachers consider this approach the most complex but
satisfying way to co-teach, but the approach that is most dependent on teachers' styles.

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