Reading Response #13
After reading the co-teaching
resources, I was exposed to a plethora of co-teaching methods and
models. There are four specific co-teaching strategies: supportive
co-teaching, parallel co-teaching, complementary co-teaching, and
team teaching. Supportive co-teaching involves one teacher taking the
lead role of teacher in the classroom while the other teacher MBWA
and assists students. Parallel co-teaching involves both the teacher
and and the support personnel to teach heterogeneous groups of
students simultaneously. Complementary co-teaching a member of the
teaching team supplements or complements the instruction of the other
team member. Such as transcribing notes, adding additional comments
or insights, or assessing students in the classroom. Lastly, team
teaching involves both members of the team to teach along side one
another and share the responsibilities of the teacher from lesson
planning, to lectures, to grading.
Reading Response #14
The co-teaching practices that I will
use in my group's ITU will most likely be team teaching. I have the
benefit of working with the amazing Mallory Sorben, another brilliant
English teacher. It would be very beneficial for us to use the team
teaching method. By teaming up, we will have the ability to assess
students more accurately while providing differing perspectives on a
controversial topic. We will also be able to complement each others'
lessons and commentaries. This is also very beneficial when dealing
with large class sizes. My class sizes range from 38-41 students and
hers mirror the same numbers. With that many students it is difficult
to MBWA and still assist every student. For these reasons, I think
team teaching will be the best approach in our ITU assignment.
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