Co-Teaching
Monday June 22, 2009
Overcrowding in schools is becoming more of a problem every year. To combat this some schools are using a co-teaching technique that adds co-teachers to classes that have numerous ESE students. Read more...
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I have been co-teaching at a career and technical school for almost a year and have experienced difficult situations. One of which students favor me over the other instructor. We currently do modular teaching where students get to see both instructors. I have a more structured curriculum as opposed to my co-worker who’s lesson planning is at the last minute. Need I mention more..
I do not want to mention this to my administrator due to the fact I will be perceived to be negative. I will let the students do the talking..
I had a sped teacher in a class all year. It can be very effective; however, expecting a sped teacher to be as knowledgeable as the core/elective teacher on a topic is unfair without plan time. We specifically did individual teaching, some one on one tutoring, and dividing the class into two groups. It was fine, but not really what I learned as a true coteaching classroom.