Co-Teaching Basics
True or False? According to Friend & Cook (2016), co-teaching involves two or more certified professionals who share instructional responsibility for a group of students in a single workspace with mutual ownership, joint accountability, and these pooled assets.
True
Teachers should meet at least this often during prep time to plan differentiated instruction and assessments.
What is once a week?
Name two of the four specific co-teaching models highlighted in the presentation.
What are Parallel Teaching, Station Teaching, One Teach/One Observe, and Team Teaching? (Any two)
To provide effective instruction, materials should have multiple means of representation, including visual, written, and this format.
What is auditory?
Both teachers and SECAs should actively collect student samples and data to track this aspect of IEP goals.
What is progress monitoring?
True or False: Co-teaching involves having a "smaller" class of special education students served within a larger general education class.
What is False? (Co-teaching is not a smaller class within a larger class).
Besides the General Education and Special Education teachers, this professional staff member should also know and implement IEP goals and accommodations.
What is a SECA?
In this activity, groups create an anchor chart on one co-teaching model, display it on the wall, and walk around to view others' charts.
What is a Gallery Walk?
Instruction must provide access to high-quality curriculum while implementing these two specialized supports for individual students.
What are accommodations and modifications?
To display collaborative support outside the classroom door, educators should post a shape with all professionals' names containing this many sides.
What is a triangle?
High-quality co-teaching is designed to support not only students with disabilities, but also this group
All students in the classroom
In Step 1 of Co-Planning, teachers backward plan by connecting the lesson to this end-of-unit element.
What is the end-of-unit assessment?
In the group presentation activity, four-person teams perform this type of roleplay to demonstrate a co-teaching model.
What is a skit?
Appropriate modeling, support, and flexible grouping directly foster student communication and this type of classroom conversation.
What is student discourse?
One strategy to include both teachers daily is involving both in activating prior knowledge or leading these warm-up tasks.
What is bell work (or daily warm-up)?
Co-teaching is NOT two professionals providing instruction to this type of student group. Homogeneous or heterogeneous Grouping?
Homogeneous Grouping
During ice-breaker and co-planning discussions, educators are encouraged to openly discuss their strengths, challenges, preferred communication modes, and these personal annoyances. What are these personal annoyances called?
What are pet peeves?
The presentation notes that effective instruction in a co-teaching space looks different depending on the lesson, present needs, and this third factor.
Who are the learners?
These framework guidelines (abbreviated UDL) are referenced in Steps 2 and 3 of the co-planning process.
What are Universal Design for Learning guidelines?
During discussions about classroom culture, co-teachers should discuss their tolerance for noise and this student behavior throughout the classroom.
What is student movement?
According to the presentation's vision statement, educators work collaboratively to empower students to become critical thinkers who possess these two language capabilities.
What is being bilingual or biliterate?
The OSD Co-Teaching Checklist emphasizes focusing on collaborating and co-planning during this specific week.
What is Week 0?
n the skit activity, groups must include a Gen Ed teacher, SpEd teacher, SECA, students, and a volunteer from one of these two programs.
What is City Year or Parent Mentor?
n Step 1 of Co-Planning, teachers ensure lessons bring in students' backgrounds, interests, and these.
What are identities?
True or False: Nathan Davis Dual Language School, whose mission centers on developing bilingual, biliterate, and socially conscious scholars, produced this 4 Co-Teaching Models presentation and jeopardy game.
True