Co-Teaching Models
Explanation of Co-Teaching Models
- One teach, one support: One teacher plans and teaches while the other teacher moves around the classroom helping individual students.
- Team teaching: Both teachers plan and share instruction of all of the students. The class is taught in a way that encourages discussion among peers.
- Parallel teaching: Both teachers plan together and split the class in half. Both teachers teach the same material to both groups.
- Alternative teaching: One teacher teaches the majority of the class while the other teacher teaches in a small group.
- One teach, one observe: One teacher teaches the entire lesson while the other teacher sits in the back of the classroom and just observes.
- Station teaching: Teachers divide the content; each teacher plans part of it. Teachers are at particular stations and other stations are "student-run."
Example of a Co-Teaching Lesson Plan
The following is an example of a lesson plan using a team-teaching and a parallel teaching approach in two different parts of the lesson. (Click on each page to enlarge.) There is also a download button to download the Word version of this lesson plan.
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Reflection:
For this artifact, I used my co-teaching lesson plan that I used in class with my classmate, Brittney Williams. We both created a co-teaching lesson plan using elements of parallel teaching and team teaching. In addition, I found an image that clearly represents each co-teaching model and I included a brief explanation of each model. Creating this lesson plan was one of the most valuable things that I had done in this class because it gave me the opportunity to gain insight into co-teaching as well as different ways in which special education teachers are integrated into the classrooms.