Strategies for improving student outcomes in
co-taught general education classrooms.
Not exact matches
Some districts, like the nation's largest, in New York City, have found that it helps to pair
general education teachers with special
education teachers in a
co-teaching model, where teachers share
classroom responsibilities and both receive specialized training in teaching students with autism.
In her role as a
classroom teacher in
general education and integrated
co-teaching settings, she used iPads one to one with her students while aligning her instruction to the Common Core State Standards.
Co-teaching — a partnership between a
general education teacher and a special
education teacher working together in the same
classroom — has the potential to support students with a variety of learning styles.
In a collaborative or
co-teaching setting, the ESL teacher «pushes into» the
general education classroom to collaborate with the teacher.
Collaboration is essential in a full inclusion
classroom when the
co-teaching model is used, pairing a
general education and special
education teacher.
Two models have emerged for inclusion: push in, where a special educator goes into the
general education classroom for part of the day to provide specially designed instruction, and the
co-teaching model, where a
general educator and special educator partner to provide instruction to all the children in their
classroom.
Co-teaching brings together a
general education teacher and a special
education teacher to share all aspects of teaching — planning, instruction and assessment — for an inclusive, heterogeneous group of students in a shared
classroom environment.
These
classrooms showcase the implementation of
co-teaching by promoting a collaborative model —
general and special
education teachers share responsibility for the achievement of all students in the
general education classroom through active co-planning,
co-teaching, co-assessing with inclusive and research - based practices.
This fall, we've been flooded with emails from parents concerned that their high - achieving children have been placed in ICT, or integrated
co-teaching, a
classroom that mixes
general education and special needs students with two teachers.
One of the ways that schools are increasingly using to address the needs of students with and without special needs in the
general education classroom is through
co-teaching.
Support in the
general education classroom can exist in the form of a special educator
co-teaching with or serving as a consultant to the
general educator.