Two Teachers in the Classroom

Whatare two teacers doing in the classroom together? They are co-teaching  Co-teaching is when two or more people share the responsibilities of teaching a class. The teachers involved plan together, instructs together and evaluate student growth together.  Co-teachers spend quality time planning around the following practices: flexibility of teaching modes, learning styles, assessment and grouping. They provide appropriate challenge by using interesting and engaging learning tasks and take students where they are to where they need to be.

Students in a co-taught classroom receive expected grade level content, using grade level curriculum.  The content is the same as any other class, but co-teaching allows for a change to content delivery.  These delivery models allow for differentiated instruction.  Differentiated instruction is crucial for success across varying types of learners.

Many grade levels are experimenting with a new teaching experience.  Some of your students may have come home already and said they have classes with multiple teachers in the same room.  Mr. Schrom, Mr. Meisl, Mrs. Frontera, and Mrs. Gamez may be names you hear in addition to their classroom teachers.  All the above mentioned teachers have gone through training with Dr. Patrick Schwarz.  Dr. Schwarz is author to the book which Goodrich had for the parent book group last year.

 Throughout this year on this blog I will document the progress of co-teaching with examples of things happening in the classroom comments from teachers and students.  Tune in next month for our