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Assigning Roles and Responsibilities in a New Co-Teaching Relationship

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Assigning Roles and Responsibilities in a New Co-Teaching Relationship

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Thank you for your question!  We shared a few resources at the end of our presentation to help you get started including some sample forms that break down roles/responsibilities for both educators in the planning, presentation, and reflection stages of a lesson/unit.  We think it helps in a new partnership to even break down who is going to do the warm up/exit, who is going to go over directions/expectations, who is going to present new materials or facilitate an activity, who is going to initiate closing and clean up, etc.  The more you plan ahead, the more comfortable both of you will feel and this builds the foundation of trust you need to make co-teaching rewarding for both the educators and learners!

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I'm not sure if there is a true right answer to this. At our Junior School, we have co-teach in 6, 7, and 8 grade for English, Math, Science and Social Studies. Our high school is just now adding co-teach classes. They started with science and social studies since they do not have sped resource classes in those areas. They're hoping to start adding in co-teach English and Math soon.

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My first question is... who schedules your ARDs? I would start with that person and see if they can try to schedule all ARDs during your conference periods. Sometimes I do have to pull teachers during a class, but I try really hard not to if possible. Most of the time if I do have to pull a co-teacher during a class, the gen ed teacher will cover the class for the day.

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Unfortunately, sometimes that's how it starts. Most districts place a lot of focus on STAAR and those subject areas. My best advice here would be to start by training the gen ed teachers in those non-inclusion areas in how to accommodate and help students with IEPs. Hopefully, your district can add a few new sections each year to help serve more students.

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OMG! Absolutely! Do you have teachers that keep certain students out of their classrooms?

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Priority on inclusion is given to EOC tested classes. So we have only one section of inclusion English III, none for English IV, none for Alg II, etc.

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Kids Need Inclusion but School Doesn't Offer the Support

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Kids Need Inclusion but School Doesn't Offer the Support

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Thank you for your question! We would love to talk to you more about this. Does the school district not offer any inclusion support? What type of sped services does your district provide?

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What do you do if a kid needs inclusion but the school doesn’t offer it for that subject? Student need should always drive services but its not always reality.

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How many classrooms at the school are Coteaching.

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It is so frustrating that still today, in 2019 there are classroom teachers that stand at the door and decide, daily, if this kid can come in or not!!! I’m not sure how else to explain that sped kids are Gen Ed kids FIRST!!!

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On our campuses, we have special education teachers assigned 40 students on a caseload. How do you determine which students take priority with co-teach and others receive just inclusion support?

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Can you please clarify...

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During Parallel teaching, if the SPED teacher takes a group outside of the classroom, what's the ratio to make sure the "gen ed" students aren't in the "sped" setting?

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During Parallel teaching, if the SPED teacher takes a group outside of the classroom, what's the ratio to make sure the "gen ed" students aren't in the "sped" setting?

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There is not a specific ratio. I would just make sure you have a well blended group. For example, if the class is 30 and 10 are sped, I would try to split the sped students 5 and 5 if possible.

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Multiple Teachers and Subjects, Losing Our Minds

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Multiple Teachers and Subjects, Losing Our Minds

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It's always best practice to *try* to have master scheduling where sped educators are paired with the same/similar content as the scheduling allows. However, the reality is that numbers and sections don't always work out that way. You can regain some of your sanity by *strongly requesting* 1/2 day co-planning sessions 1-2x a semester to plan far in advance.

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We would expect the gen ed partner to share those last minute changes! If this is being done regularly, and you're not being kept in the loop, I would definitely talk to your partner and/or your department head to get some support in this area. Good luck!!! I (Stacey) definitely know how it feels to walk into a classroom and have no idea what is going on.

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What if the ratio of case students to Special education Teacher is 40:1. How do you choose what class and content to co-teach in? Higher numbers of special education students or do you just choose ID students who are in classes?

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Yes, there is a difference between the two. Co-Teaching is both teachers truly teaching. This takes time and support from your campus admin. Inclusion is more of an assistant role. Currently, our Junior School is the only school with the true co-teach model. Our elementary schools are starting with an inclusion model with supported classrooms where the sped teachers are going into gen ed classrooms to work specifically with the sped students. Fingers crossed, we will eventually get to co-teaching at all campuses!

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Please email Stacey, and she can send it to you and explain how we implement it

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Can you share that beginning of year presentation you’re talking about?

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How do you accommodate ARDs meetings or last minute sped meetings during class times?

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Is there a difference between co teaching and inclusion? How do you transion to a more co teaching model.

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I'm so sorry to hear this! It doesn't ever feel good to work in an environment when you don't feel welcomed. I am a fan of using the "reset" mindset. I would encourage you to consider scheduling a time to 1)reflect on how the past semester went, 2)celebrations/areas for growth as a team, 3)priorities/pet peeves, and 4)goal setting for the remainder of the year. If you don't feel comfortable doing this face to face, you could even try creating vision boards using Google Slides. Make a vision board for yourself and have your co-teacher make one. Then you can both have more time to reflect in depth on your own before coming together to plan for the future. It's never too late to reset, reframe, and move forward with a fresh perspective! Hope this helps!

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When the gen ed team makes changes at the last minute, how does one communicate with sped?

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When the gen ed team makes changes at the last minute, how does one communicate with sped?

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As a gen ed teacher... sometimes we don’t know what’s needed. We are just winging it and it’s on us to make sure everything happens on top of the other 5000 things we have to get done 😫

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How do you do it with multiple subjects and teachers with no planning. We are losing our minds.

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My administration is not clear about what they want us to be...

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My administration is not clear about what they want us to be...

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It sounds like they're taking a step in the right direction by knowing that co-teach is a useful model for meeting the needs of learners but they may not know what it looks like.  I recommend sharing some of these resources at your next PLC or faculty meeting or schedule a meeting with your key admin. to discuss the benefits of co-teaching.   Let us know if we answered your question.  :)

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YES! We will provide links at the end for the resources =)

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Is there a way to get this PowerPoint for later review?

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What if you feel very uncomfortable with the teacher you are supposed to teach with?

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How do you determine what content receives co-teach model?

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Planning is going to be priority here. Working together to create the materials and lessons, especially for the days when you're both together. On the days where the gen ed teacher is alone, you can utilize more teacher directed lessons. Then on days where you're both in the classroom, you can utilize more of the co-teach strategies like stations and parallel teach.

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What is the best way to assign roles and responsibilities in a new Co-teaching partnership?

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How do you coteach if your coteacher has split responsibilities...not in classroom everyday

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How do you coteach if your coteacher has split responsibilities...not in classroom everyday

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Great question!  We schedule out a time to plan that works for both professionals.  Sometimes that looks like meeting 1-2x a week during our lunches, before school, after school.  If we don't share a convenient time to meet in person, we also plan a time to meet via Google.  Lastly, we ask our administrators if it's possible to take a 1/2 day occasionally to plan out larger units (especially if we're a new co-teach partnership).  Hope this helps! :)

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How do you co-teach without the same planning period?