Welcome to Co-Teaching made easy!

1. Welcometo Co-Teachingmadeeasy! A Presentation for Cincinnati Public Schools Administrators and teachers who are considering Co-Teaching systems in their schools.

2. Agenda • Welcome • Where do you stand? • Objective/Goals for today • Ticket out the door • What is Co-Teaching? • What is Co-Teaching from the generalist perspective? • Break

3. Planning systems • Co-Teaching types • Key components • Lunch • Marriage of the Terms • Video • Team co-planning • Parking Lot/Frequently Asked Questions

4. WHERE DO YOU STAND?

5. OBJECTIVE/GOALS FOR TODAY! You will know…* What Co-Teaching is* Why Co-Teaching is considered a strong delivery model* What it is should look like when 2 professionals teach in the same room

6. Ticket out the door!

7. INSTRUCTIONS • Complete the anticipation/reaction guide using the left side only. • After completion put aside till prompted.

8. What is Co-Teaching?

9. Question? WHAT EXACTLY IS Co-Teaching?

10. Definition of Co-Teaching • Involves 2 or more professionals • Involves a heterogeneous group of students • Involves shared delivery of instruction • Occurs in a shared physical space

11. Co-Teaching is: A Partnership The sharing of knowledge and skill to maximize student learning.

12. Joint Accountability In All Facets of the Classroom Share in Successes & Challenges

13. TOGETHERNESS • Cooperative Planning • Cooperative Presenting • Cooperative Processing • Cooperative Problem Solving (1 solution) • Sacrifices are made by both teachers • Flexibility Is Key • No Mine and Yours • Use “we” and “our” when speaking about yourselves to others and to each other.

14. Two Experts • General Educator • Content Expert • Focuses on Curriculum and Instruction • Attends to Pacing • Intervention Specialist • Process Expert • Strategies for how to learn and how to remember • Remediation • Accommodations

15. Never, Never, Never • Never have one teacher just watch the other one teach. Never have one teacher just helping one child all of the time.

16. Always have both teachers actively involved with kids when there are two professionals in the room.

17. What is Co-Teaching from the generalist perspective?

18. 15 MINUTEBREAK

19. PLANNING SYSTEMS

20. Planning Systems Consultant System Parallel system

21. Instructions • You have 12 strips of paper in a envelope • With a partner determine which characteristics depicted fit the teachers. • Take 10 minutes

22. Mr. Consultn Withu aka. Al D. Time Redesign worksheets Adjust worksheet directions Addition of graphics for directions for clarity Design of study guides, outlines, concept webs Audio taping • Provide visuals to help students see relationships among concepts • Provide “real life” examples to help students understand abstract ideas.

23. Ms. Youado Those & Ms. Illado These Grouping done according to interests, readiness or skills, style or random Giving students the opportunity to hear the same concepts coming from 2 or more teachers using different styles & materials. Teachers take turns instructing & coaching • Use same instructional unit design, but delivery of lesson different way to groups of students in one or more rooms • Students grouped, teaching responsibilities determined

24. Co-Teaching Types

25. Co-Teaching Types

26. Key components

27. THE BIG SHIFT • FROM • Worrying about the students • TO • Worrying about us • Worrying about our relationship • Worrying about the students

28. IT’S A MARRIAGE • Ozzie & Harriet • Claire & Heathcliff • Bonnie & Clyde • Starsky & Hutch • Booth (Sealy) & Bones (Temperance) • Beckett (Kate) & Castle (Rick)

29. Prerequisite SkillsWhat Do You Bring To The Partnership? • Personal Skills • Willingness to give up some of the control • Parity • Communication/Collaboration is key

30. Moving From Me to We “The willingness to work toward a common goal is accompanied by a decrease in concern about individual differences.” Friend and Cook

31. Shared System of Beliefs • Fair Practices in the classroom • Grading • Discipline • Goals for Students • Goals for the Classroom

32. Collaboration vs communication Collaboration Communication “an act of transmitting exchange of information between one or more individuals by use of symbols, signs, gestures, written, verbal, behavior.” “Is a style for direct interaction between at least two co-equal parties voluntarily engaged in shared decision making as they work towards a common goal.”

33. Communication Skills • Verbal • statements • questions • Nonverbal • Body Movements facial, eye contact, gestures • Vocal Cues - quality of voice, pacing, flow • Spatial Relations – distance (personal, social, public) • Listening

34. FEEDBACK • Should be • Solicited – best received when someone has requested it • Direct – give directly to the person that can use it • Well Timed – for interpersonal Feedback, ask yourself, “Hmmmm, is now the best time to give feedback?”

35. Collaboration is Emergent • Trust • Respect • Belief in the Value of Collaboration

36. Factors that Interfere with Listening • Rehearsing a Response • Daydreaming • Hot Words • Filtering Messages • Distracted by Extraneous Details

37. Collaboration Collaboration Collaboration

38. Components of Collaboration • Personal commitment • Communication Skills • Interaction Processes • Programs and Services • Context

39. When Does Collaboration Begin? • Outside of the classroom • Planning • Shared decision-making • Division of labor • Investigating how students IEP goals fit into the framework (main curriculum) • Accountability

40. Collaboration is…. “The perception that by interacting collaboratively, all participants strengths can be maximized, their weaknesses can be minimized, and the result will be better for all.” Friend and Cook

41. Topics To Discuss at the Onset and Periodically • Discipline • Feedback • Student evaluation • Teaching Chores • Confidentiality • Pet Peeves

42. Collaboration is Key!!! • Both educators deliver meaningful instruction • Both educators are actively involved in the delivery of instruction to students • Both educators teach a diverse group of students • Both educators share physical space

43. Topics to Discuss at the Onset and Periodically • Expectations for the students • Planning • Instructional Format • Parity • Space • Noise • Routines

44. Interpersonal Problem-Solving • Well-defined Problems • Partially Defined Problem • Reactive • Proactive

45. Steps in InterpersonalProblem Solving • Identifying the Problem • Generating Potential Solutions • Evaluating Potential Solutions • Implementing the Solution • Evaluating the Outcome

46. SO HAPPY TOGETHER! What 2 people create and implement together is stronger and more powerful than what 1 person could do alone!

47. Lunch!

48. Marriage of the Terms

49. Instructions

50. Act It Out!