Team Teaching
This co-teaching model occurs when both teachers actively deliver instruction together during the lesson.
What is Team Teaching?
This happens when both co-teachers walk into class thinking the other person made the copies.
What is panic?
In student-centered classrooms, students should be doing more talking than this person.
Who is the teacher?
This 1999 TLC song reminds co-teachers not to be the partner “hanging out the passenger side.”
What is “No Scrubs”?
In strong team teaching, both teachers should be doing this during the lesson.
What is actively teaching?
During Spring PD, specialists were challenged to do this more intentionally during planning conversations.
What is assert themselves into the planning?
This is often increased when students have opportunities to collaborate and discuss ideas.
What is engagement?
This many Walk to Learn experiences were completed during the Winter cycle.
What is 79?
This is the biggest mistake co-teaching teams make when attempting team teaching.
What is teaching without intentional co-planning?
During Spring PD, teams were encouraged to “Add the Learning (ZPD)” while planning lessons.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
This type of assessment is used during learning to check understanding and guide instruction.
What is formative assessment?
This decade is when modern co-teaching began gaining popularity in schools.
What are the 1960s?
This type of planning includes thinking about scaffolds, misconceptions, and student needs before the lesson.
What is intentional co-planning?
One sign of strong co-planning is that both teachers can clearly explain this before the lesson begins.
What is who is doing what?
In strong student-centered classrooms, instruction is adjusted based on these.
What are student needs?
As a newborn, Picasso reportedly survived after his uncle used this to revive him.
As a newborn, Picasso reportedly survived after his uncle blew cigar smoke in his face.
One of the biggest benefits of team teaching is that students receive more of this during instruction.
What is support?
The strongest co-planning conversations focus less on the lesson itself and more on this.
What are student needs?
This should happen regularly during student-centered instruction so teachers can adjust support and instruction.
What are checks for understanding?
These two make the greatest partnership of all time.
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