Collaboration
Meeting for a 20 minutes to map out a series of lessons.
What is planning?
The number of instruction teaching spaces needed for co-teaching
What are 2?
One person teaches while one collects data.
What is Level I?
There are three small groups of content (one teacher, one teacher and one para) that rotate.
What is Level II? (Three station rotation)
What teachers do to prepare for co-teaching lessons.
What is planning?
When teachers exchange ideas before a planning session via a google doc to maximize planning time when meeting.
The most important word to use to demonstrate parity.
What is the word "we" or "our"?
Both teachers conduct review groups of 3 simultaneously
What is Level II? (Skills groups)
Each teacher works with half of the class for two days, and uses a variety of small group approaches with their half of the class.
What is level II? (Four Station Flip-Flop)
What teachers do to prepare the desks in the classroom.
What is Physical Arrangement?
When co-teachers demonstrate to students how to dialog when they are working in pairs.
What is modeling (or a synonym for modeling)?
The number one strategy used by co-teaching pairs to ensure parity
What is communication between a co-teaching pair?
One teacher teaches content while the other teaches vocabulary to equal size groups.
What is Level II? (Flip Flop)
Students are grouped by exit ticket answers from the day before and then teachers each take a group to teach/review.
What is Level II?
What teachers do to prepare a variety of entry points to the content.
What is Differentiate?
Meeting for 5 minutes during class to discuss the lesson, while the class performs an independent task quietly.
What is micro planning or adjusting instruction?
When two teachers do not agree and do not get along with each other.
What is conflict in co-teaching?
One teacher delivers content to the whole group, while one writes notes or demonstrates.
What is Level I? (One teach/one support)
Before the lesson begins, some students are pre-taught the lesson by one teacher, while other students complete the "do now" with the other teacher.
What is Level II?
The legal name of Special Education
What is Specially Designed Instruction?
A method for problem solving conflict.
What is a "fair hearing"?
When two teachers have discussed their professional strengths and weaknesses to decide how they will approach co-teaching.
What is establishing Parity?
Both teachers drift around the room and support students during guided practice.
What is Level 1? (Two drift)
One teacher teaches content while one teacher is at a meeting.
What is NOT co-teaching? :)
Passing a clipboard between teachers to write down notes to monitor student learning.
What is progress monitoring?