Thursday, July 26, 2012

Teaching Styles

It can oftentimes be difficult to share your “class” with another teacher but it is important to remember when in a coteaching situation it is not your class or the other teacher’s, it is both your class now.  Before school begins, it is a good idea to sit down and discuss how each of you will interact with each other, the students, and the content being taught.  There are a few main teaching styles used for co-teaching::

Team Teaching - This is the model we use.  Both teachers share the responsibilities of delivering instruction to the entire class.

One Teacher, One Drifter - One teacher leads instruction while the other teacher drifts around the room clarifying and working with students who seem to be falling behind.  

Parallel Teaching - Both teachers deliver instruction but at the same time.  So one teacher would work with one group in a part of the room while the other teacher delivers the same lesson to a different group in another part of the room.

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