EDSS 541

RR13: IDENTIFY what co-teaching approaches were modeled this week.

Working from the assumption that the main point of this response has to do with the co-teaching seminar on Feb. 15, I would say two of the approaches were modeled.  During the first half of the evening, we saw the Supportive approach, in which Dr. Thousand led the presentation while other faculty members were in attendance to help as needed.  During the second half of the evening we saw a parallel approach in which our two professors moved around checking in with the different groups as we did our independent group work.

On a more general level:  a summary of the four co-teaching approaches we’ve been introduced to follows

·         Supportive – one teacher leads the classes while one or more others are there provide support.  The support teacher may help with classroom management,  housekeeping, providing individual attention to students who need it, etc.

·         Complementary – one teacher still seems to be leading the class, but the other will take a more cognitively active role, paraphrasing, clarifying or amplifying points or modeling student participation.

·         Team – two or more teachers share all of the teaching duties, from planning to execution and assessment.  They plan closely together, each expressing their strongest skills.

·         Parallel – the class is split into two or more groups and the teachers work independently with those groups.  Each teacher may work with one or more groups exclusively, or all teachers may rotate amongst all the groups.