Integrated Co-Teaching: Targeted Instruction for HS PLO

Exhibited by:

PLO Attended:

  • Integrated Co-Teaching: Targeting Instruction for HS Students, 9-12

Coached by:

  • Maggie Callahan

Integrated Co-Teaching: Targeted Instruction for High School PLO

PLO Goals:

  • Strengthen professional and personal relationships between co-teachers
  • Increase confidence in flexibility with lesson planning and execution
  • Apply meaningful and strategic co-teaching strategies in ICT classrooms
  • Create structures and procedures custom to co-teachers for effective and efficient co-planning

PLO Learnings:

  • Differences in strategic co-planning vs. co-teaching
  • Relationship-building activities to enhance co-teaching pairings
    • Compass Point
    • Core Values and Mission Statement
    • Roles and Responsibilities Agreement

Implementation of Techniques and Practices:

  • Co-Planning Protocol
    • Structure/Procedure for co-planning meetings
    • Lesson Plans before/after using protocol

  • Reflection of Practice
    • Wants, needs, strengths, weaknesses of co-teaching

Impact:

  • Lesson Plans Pre and Post Implementation
    • Guidelines and Norms for Tuning Protocol
    • “Student-Centered” Group Projects/Tasks
    • Sample Math Lessons - Stations and Parallel Teaching
  • Data collected
    • Student reflections after lesson
    • Students working
  • Co-Planning Meeting
    • Agenda for meetings
    • Calendar and emails created
    • Picture of Team collaborating

Conclusion:

  • Increased confidence in efficient co-planning and effective co-teaching
  • Co-Planning Protocol is VITAL to efficient co-planning
  • Personal and professional trust in co-teacher pairings
  • Comfort with executing multiple co-teaching models in one lesson

Next Steps:

  • Host ElRo staff PL (Professional Learning) meeting at the beginning of the 2017-2018 school year
  • Continue to co-plan lessons with multiple co-teaching structures and models to engage all students
  • Attend MFSC 201 PLO ‘Focus on Assessments’ PL Fall 2017