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To ensure both co-teachers are treated as equals, partner must determine individual roles & responsibilities.
Determining each co-teacher's Role
Determining each co-teacher's Role
The research suggests that one issue with co-teaching is that often the special education teacher is not given an equal role in the classroom. The general education teacher provides instruction while the special education teacher supports students. To move beyond this model, co-teachers need to discuss roles and expectations. The discussion should center around:
Instructional strengths
Other strengths
Distribution of classroom responsibilities
When I was a co-teacher, I was often placed in a content area where I did not have expertise. So, when I was in those situations, I contributed my extensive knowledge of educational technology to the lessons. My co-teacher planned the content and I helped embed enriching technology into his lesson.
Tips for Co-Teachers
Tips for Co-Teachers
When you are starting to work with a new co-teacher, keep the following tips in mind:
Put both names on everything (syllabus, classroom door, LMS classroom page, emails to families)
Reinforce "our" when speaking
"In our classroom...", "Please visit our classroom library...", "On our homework calendar..."
Accept feedback and work on improvement together
RESOURCES
RESOURCES
These tools could help you and your co-teacher discuss your roles in the classroom.
To use these templates, you can either:
OPTION A
OPTION A
Click the title of the resource below. It will prompt you to Make a Copy if you're logged into your Google account. The copy is added to your Drive, giving you editing access.
OPTION B
OPTION B
Hover over the resource below. Click the Open Document arrow in the top right corner. When it opens, click File and then Make a Copy, which is added to your Drive to edit.
Although co-teachers should ideally share the work equally, some co-teaching pairs prefer to split up the work in different ways. This checklist provides a list of teacher responsibilities. Each co-teacher will check the box to show what role they want to take. If both co-teachers check their box for a responsibility, it will be split equally.
This Jamboard is a quick, fun way to visually see the self-perceived strengths of each co-teacher. It also allows you to see what strengths you have in common, which helps find opportunities to use team teaching. Drag & drop your strengths. If your co-teacher already claimed a strength that you have, move it to the "both" space.
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