Abbreviations
IEP
What is Individualized Education Program.
T or F: Create a safe and welcoming environment for all.
What is True.
During parallel teaching, are two different lessons taught?
What is no. Students are placed in smaller groups with each teacher teaching the same lesson.
In regards to teaching in a co-taught classroom, what happens with the student - teacher ratio.
What is it lowers the student-teacher ratio.
One of the biggest challenges to successful co-teaching.
What is planning time.
LRE
What is Least Restrictive Environment.
T or F: To meet the educational, social, and emotional needs of all children in the classroom.
What is True.
Name one co-teaching strategy that require a high amount of planning?
What is station teaching and team teaching.
One strength of Station teaching.
What is: Students are engaged resulting in fewer misbehaviors; Students are in smaller groups; Teachers can share the workload.
Name one model that can result in a noisy classroom.
What are Alternative, Parallel, or Station Teaching.
IDEA
What is Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
T or F: To create and maintain a positive environment that is conducive to learning.
What is True.
For which co-teaching strategies are teachers required to work together and communicate?
What is all of them.
Name one way that Co-teaching is a benefit to teachers.
What is additional help and support in the classroom; Collaboration with someone else; Another set of eyes in the classroom; Someone to take data, Sharing the workload
A weakness of One teach, One assist
What is: Primary teacher is viewed as main authority (lack of parity); Students expect immediate 1-1 assistance; Interactions may be distracting; Unequal work load
FAPE
What is Free Appropriate Public Education.
T or F: Inclusive practices center around all students learning in the same environments, to meet everyone's needs.
What is True.
Name one co-teaching strategy that does not divide the classroom into smaller groups?
What are Team teaching; One teach, One assist; One teach, One Observe.
A co-teaching partner could be:
What is another teacher (Gen Ed or SpEd), EA, Intern, Counselor, Specials teacher, Tutor, Student.
Special Education teachers may face this challenge.
What is lack of content knowledge, lack of time to get to all students / classrooms equally
IP
What is Inclusive Practices.
T or F: Inclusion is a means of providing equitable and accessible supports in and out of classrooms.
What is True.
The six approaches to co-teaching
What are: One teach, one assist; One teach, one observe; Team teaching, Station teaching, Alternative teaching, Parallel teaching
A successful co-taught classroom models this for students:
What is collaboration (cooperation).
This strategy may lead to labelling students.
What is Alternative teaching.