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What is CoTeaching?
CoTeaching is an instructional approach in which two or more teachers work together in a collaborative partnership to deliver content to a diverse group of students. This approach is often used in inclusive education settings where students with diverse learning needs, including those with disabilities, learn alongside their peers without disabilities.
The co-teaching model involves a general education teacher and a special education teacher (or other specialists) working together in the same classroom. The goal is to provide all students with access to the same curriculum and instruction, regardless of their abilities or learning styles. Co-teachers collaborate to plan, instruct, and assess students, and they share responsibility for the success of all students in the classroom.
Guru's of CoTeaching
Marilyn Friend
Marilyn Friend has over 40 years of experience in the field of education. She has been both a special education teacher and a general education teacher as well as a teacher educator, consultant and staff developer. She currently is professor emerita in the Department of Specialized Education Services at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and works extensively with local schools, school districts and other education agencies to ensure that students with disabilities or other special needs reach their potential. Her particular areas of expertise (the focus of her research, teaching, writing and consultation) include inclusive schooling, coteaching and other collaborative school practices, systems change, urban education and family-school partnerships.
Marilyn Friend has over 40 years of experience in the field of education. She has been both a special education teacher and a general education teacher as well as a teacher educator, consultant and staff developer. She currently is professor emerita in the Department of Specialized Education Services at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and works extensively with local schools, school districts and other education agencies to ensure that students with disabilities or other special needs reach their potential. Her particular areas of expertise (the focus of her research, teaching, writing and consultation) include inclusive schooling, coteaching and other collaborative school practices, systems change, urban education and family-school partnerships.
Anne Benninghoff
An internationally recognized consultant and trainer, Anne has more than 33 years of experience in the field of education. Currently, Anne co-teaches part-time to design instruction for heterogeneous classrooms. In both her presenting and writing, Anne focuses on creative, practical solutions for more effectively including students with diverse learning needs in general education classrooms.
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