This document provides an overview of co-teaching strategies for educators. It discusses introducing co-teaching, the five main co-teaching structures, learning profiles, accommodations and modifications, cooperative group structures, and common planning. The goal is for educators to learn strategies to implement co-teaching, identify which structures to use and when, plan instruction for heterogeneous groups using data, use common planning time effectively, and manage student groups. Activities include identifying co-teaching examples, taking a learning profile quiz, developing group lessons, and discussing quotes on teaching.
2. Introductions
Your Name
Grade and Subject
1 little known or memorable fact about yourself
Challenge: think of something memorable that also starts with the same letter as your 1st name.
3. Introduction to Co-teaching
Underlying ideas of co-teaching
Growth vs. Fixed mindset
What does it mean to be smart?
5. By the end of today, you will have the
strategies to...
Implement the 5 main co-teaching structures.
Identify when & why to use a particular co-teaching structure.
Plan instruction for heterogeneous groups of students based on data.
Use common planning time meaningfully
6. Learning Profiles
How students learn & process information
Their interests
The way they think
The way they interact with others
10. Accommodations & Modification of Array Interaction
Inventory
Older students (6,7,8) appropriate
Online quiz that assesses which Winnie the Pooh character you are and
describes the characteristics.
For much younger students, consider watching a Winnie the Pooh episode
or reading a short story and asking students to identify which character they
are most like.
13. The 5 Main Structures of Co-teaching
Chapter 13 & handout
Read each description
3 examples of why you might use it?
Lingering questions
Murawski, W. W. (2009). Collaborative teaching in secondary schools: making the co-teaching marriage work!. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin.
20. Flexible Grouping
1. How can the idea of flexible
grouping be used in planning
for a co-taught lesson?
2. How is it different and the
same as ability grouping?
21. Grade level/ Subject Group Work
Review the mock data collected after an initial whole group lesson on the
standard listed. Then, create a follow up lesson using co-teaching and flexible
grouping to meet the learning needs of all students.
What co-teaching method could use use to address the needs of students
in this class?
Why is that the method that makes sense?
How can you address multiple learning profiles in the next lesson?
How will students be grouped? Why?
22. Common Planning Agendas
Review Data
Create lessons using the data
Decide who will do what to ensure parity
23. LUNCH
Group work is an essential component of learning, but it is even more important in co-teaching situations
if both teachers are going to be efficient and active instructors for all students. After lunch, we will work
on developing strategies for running effective groups.
24. Two Strategies for Managing Groups
Class Dojo
Cooperative Learning Structures
25. Cooperative Group Structures
Learn the cooperative group elements
o Starting Point
o Cooperative Learning Institute
Apply learned elements to a lesson plan
26. Grade level group task
Read the information provided
Identify examples of the elements you may have used
or seen used
Discuss which elements you are most comfortable with
and which ones you are less comfortable with
Develop 5 other structures that illustrate any of the
elements
Write this information down to be shared out
34. Create a Group Lesson
Use the UBD template to create a possible group lesson plan with your grade level groups.
Example
35. You Can Work With Anyone!
Be persistent
Dont try to win
Be honest but not emotional
Dont take yourself too seriously
Have a common goal
Collaborate with anyone!