Collaboration and Co-Teaching
Hot Topic! Co-Teaching-The Power of Collaboration
How things have changed in the world of English Language Acquisition !
With the arrival of Co-teaching, ENL teachers and General classroom teachers share knowledge and classrooms for the benefit of all students.
How does it work?
Integrated ENL Resources | New York State Education Department (nysed.gov)
Collaborative Planning: Never Having to Go It Alone - Language Magazine
(81) Honigsfeld & Dove: Collaboration for English Learners - YouTube
Co-Teaching for Capacity Building - Language Magazine July 2022
#124. Principles for principals of language learners - TanKHuynh (empoweringells.com)
#100. Mantras and Metaphors for Collaboration - TanKHuynh (empoweringells.com)
#42. Bringing Home Languages to School - ELL Strategies | TanKHuynh (empoweringells.com)
Translanguaging Lets MLs Use Everything in Their Toolboxes (middleweb.com)
#130. What I wish I'd known about being a language specialist - TanKHuynh (empoweringells.com)
#52. The Models of Co-Teaching - ELL Strategies | TanKHuynh (empoweringells.com)
Articles, Padlets and Other Co-Teaching Resources
Turning Around My Co-Teaching Experience
My ENL Page - Collaborating in a High School Science Class (google.com)
Literacy Strategies to Promote Language Growth (padlet.com)
Student Interaction and Discourse (padlet.com)
ENL/Bilingual Programs / L.I. RBERN's Greatest Hits (esboces.org)
12 Ways to Support English Learners in the Mainstream Classroom | Cult of Pedagogy
An Elementary ENL Collaboration and Co-Teaching Success Story | Laura Stevens
Many Thanks To Honingsfeld & Dove For These Co-Teaching Tips
-Start together at the beginning of each lesson as a show of unity.
-Two names go up everywhere and in letters to parents.
-Always break up into groups.
-Co-Teaching models #4 & #7 are very popular. *See Honigsfeld & Dove
-Establish a routine; always end together.
-Use a common co-planning template.
- Co-Teachers change their pronouns from I to we.
- Incremental implementation; one grade level at a time to learn the curriculum.
-Eliminate-outdated terms push-in and pull-out from your vocabulary;
replace them with the terms Integrated ENL and Stand-alone ENL.
-A School-Wide Disciplinary Literacy Approach defines all teachers as
teachers of literacy.
