Adapted from Dr. Marilyn Friend's contemporary planning model, here is a short video I created on Setting the Stage for Co-teaching.
Set a time to meet and have a critical conversation to begin/refresh your co-teaching partnership
Macro or Big Picture Planning Form
Special education teachers can create IEP-@-A-Glance (a snapshot of the IEP, regular education teacher-friendly) for each student in their caseload to be provided to every regular ed teacher (including related arts teachers) that serves the SWD.
The regular and special education teachers can share the same lesson plan collaboratively filled out by both teachers, here is an example of a partially-filled co-planning lesson plan and here is the blank co-planning weekly lesson plan template.
Source: Friend, M. (2019). Co-Teach! Building and sustaining effective classroom partnerships in inclusive schools (3rd edition). One way to order, click here.
Q & A slide presentation on co-teaching approaches that I presented along with Dr. Savannah Denning & Dr. Bobbie Noall.
In addition to the planning in the contemporary co-planning process, I offer lesson planning templates below. However and more importantly, I emphasize the value of the conversations that take place in the process of planning.
Here is are lesson planning templates for
On September 24, 2020, tune in to the webcast on "Co-teachers Can Do Anything Virtually: Even Station Teaching".
This is a joint effort of the 8 special education cooperatives in collaboration with the KY Department of Education; I had the wonderful opportunity to collaborate with the experts on co-teaching from the other cooperatives in our state.
While this was published back in 2011, Louisiana's Co-teaching Resource Guide offers a ton of valuable information for a school system implementing co-teaching.
Friend, M. (2019). Co-Teach! Building and sustaining effective classroom partnerships in inclusive schools (3rd edition)
O'Connor, J. (2016). Great instruction great achievement for students with disabilities: A roadmap for special education administrators. Warner Robins, GA