WGU D152 Module 4: Collaboration to Provide Specialized Instruction (Inclusive Classroom WGU D152) 2023

WGU D152 Module 4: Collaboration to Provide Specialized Instruction (Inclusive Classroom WGU D152) 2023 Co-teaching is: • Collaboration between general educators in the same classroom • Collaboration between a general educator and a special educator • Collaboration on interventions strategies through a variety of models What is the goal of co-teaching? meeting the needs of all learners and providing additional support for diverse learners Marilyn Friend's 6 Co-Teaching Strategies 1. Interactive/team teaching: teachers take turn presenting and leading classroom activities and share responsibilities 2. One teach/one assist (or drift): one teacher assumes more responsibility for delivering instruction and the other teacher assists individual students (answering questions, re-explaining concepts, focusing attention, etc.) 3. One teach/one observe: one teacher assumes more responsibility for delivering instruction and the other teacher observes individual students to improve instructional decision making 4. Station teaching: smaller groups of students move through independent workstations for new information, review, or practice while the teachers monitor different stations. students rotate through all stations so both teachers work with every student in the class. 5. Parallel teaching: the class is divided into two groups and each teacher leads one of the groups. Sometimes the teachers do identical work and sometimes they present instruction in different ways (or differen