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Benefits and Challenges of Team Teaching

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Benefits and Challenges of Team Teaching

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Benefits: Allows for more small group learning and modeling.
Two teachers mean a larger knowledge base and the ability to bounce ideas off one another.

Difficulties: differences in teaching style, disagreements, and inequality in tasks if communication isn’t clear.

Kaplan, M. (2012). Collaborative team teaching: Challenges and rewards. Edutopia. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/collaborative-team-teaching-challenges-rewards-marisa-kaplan

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Collaborative Team Teaching: Challenges and Rewards

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Veteran special ed teacher Marisa Kaplan shares the challenges and rewards of co-teaching, including the fun of having another adult in the classroom.

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8 Ways To Collaborate with a Special Education Teacher

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8 Ways To Collaborate with a Special Education Teacher

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Keys: Communicate often and deliberately, give and take, and set goals together (Hofferber, n.d.).

Hofferber, J. (n.d.). Special education and general education: 8 ways to collaborate. Sped Prep Academy. Retrieved February 18, 2023, from https://www.spedprepacademy.com/blog/special-education-and-general-education-collaborating-together

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At the very beginning of the year, you MUST take time to meet with the regular education teacher(s) of your students.

This is where you will share names, important information, IEP dates, schedules, etc. It gives the teachers enough information to get started but it is just that...a starting point to a year full of collaboration.

Using a form similar to the one below gives the teacher something concrete to take with them that is not as overwhelming as a copy of an IEP.

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Special Education and General Education: 8 Ways to Collaborate

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Successful collaboration between special education and general teachers involves time, support, resources, monitoring, and EFFORT on both ends. Here are 8 ways the special education and general education teachers can collaborate effectively within a school year to best meet their students' needs.

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The above chart shows how a general education teacher and language specialist might work together in a classroom. It is important co-teachers outline specific responsibilities. '

Collaborative Instructional Cycle. (n.d.). Middle Web. Retrieved from https://www.middleweb.com/45850/collaborative-instruction-energizes-co-teaching/.

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An Example of the Station Teaching Model

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An Example of the Station Teaching Model

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This model is beneficial in that it allows students to receive focused direct instruction in smaller groups. Also students can be split into ability levels.

Beverly Ochieng-Sande. (2017, Apr 17). Station teaching model. [Video]. Youtube. https://youtu.be/1IE6kk4846o

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This model is beneficial because it allows one teacher to work with a small group of students, whether it be targeted instruction practice for those struggling or advanced work for gifted students (School of Education, 2015).

School of Education – CSU, Chico. (2015, Jul 22). Alternative (differentiated) instruction. [Video]. Youtube. https://youtu.be/fr-S5CGDXBQ

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This model allows a teacher to collect data on what works in engaging students and monitoring special needs students(School of Education, 2015).

School of Education – CSU, Chico. (2015, July 22). One-teach, one-observe. [Video]. Youtube. https://youtu.be/S3AK33YOZfE

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Parallel Teaching is beneficial because it allows smaller teacher to student ratio is instruction (Petrucci, 2014).

Daniel Joseph Petrucci. (2014, Mar 2). d.p. -parallel teaching video2. [Video]. Youtube. https://youtu.be/-kTSNimjMcY

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This video demonstrates team teaching; these two teachers work together to teach their different subjects in the same classroom seamlessly. They are clearly equals who work together.

Edutopia (2009, Oct 28). Yes prep demonstrates successful team teaching. [Video]. Youtube. https://youtu.be/GHIoqdAQ-Fs

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Key factors to collaboration between general and special educators. 

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Key factors to collaboration between general and special educators. 

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Key points are: planning together, defining how to communicate, defining responsibilities, supporting one another, presenting as a united front, and assessing what works and doesn't work for students together (Teachings in Education, 2016).

Resource: Teachings in Education (2016, Sep 7). Collaboration of Special Education and General Education Teachers. [Video]. Youtube. https://youtu.be/qMbWP9ozt2A

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Collaboration of Special Education and General Education Teachers