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| About the Author | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Co-Teaching in a Nutshell | |
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| Characteristics of Co-Teaching | |
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| What Co-Teaching Is | |
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| What Co-Teaching Is Not | |
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| Framework for Co-Teaching | |
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| How Co-Teaching Benefits Teachers | |
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| Advantages for the General Education Teacher | |
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| Advantages for the Special Education Teacher | |
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| Advantages of Co-Teaching for Students | |
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| Advantages for the General Education Student | |
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| Advantages for the Special Education Student | |
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| Considerations for Starting a New Co-Teaching Initiative | |
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| Where Does Co-Teaching Take Place? | |
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| Terms Co-Teachers Need to Know | |
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| Opening Assumptions for Co-Teaching | |
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| A Co-Teaching Anticipation Guide | |
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| The Beginning Stages of Co-Teaching | |
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| Co-Teaching Models | |
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| One Teach, One Observe | |
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| One Teach, One Drift | |
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| One Teach, One Assist or Support | |
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| Team Teaching | |
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| Station Teaching | |
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| Parallel Teaching | |
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| Alternative Teaching | |
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| Skill Group Teaching | |
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| Speak and Add Model | |
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| Duet Teaching | |
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| Adapting Curriculum Approach | |
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| Learning Styles Approach | |
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| Checking in: Applying the Approaches | |
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| Co-Teaching Approaches: An Action Plan | |
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| Applying the Models: Develop and Do | |
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| Where Do You Start? | |
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| First Steps for Beginning the Co-Teaching Experience | |
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| Second Steps | |
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| Preparing for Co-Teaching: A Checklist to Review | |
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| Preparing to Teach Together | |
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| Co-Teaching Planning Pointers | |
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| Ongoing Implementation | |
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| Co-Planning Tips and Tricks | |
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| Maximizing Lesson Planning Time | |
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| Co-Teaching Weekly Planning Guide | |
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| Practical Planning Pointers | |
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| Planning a Co-Taught Unit | |
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| Co-Teaching Planning Form | |
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| Reviewing the Co-Planning Process | |
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| Co-Teaching Roles and Responsibilities | |
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| Determining Roles and Responsibilities | |
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| Role Clarity | |
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| Sample Co-Teaching Duties | |
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| Introducing the Co-Teaching Team | |
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| Who Does What in a Co-Taught Classroom? | |
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| Communication Issues and Co-Teaching | |
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| Conversation Starters | |
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| Communication Tips and Techniques | |
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| Collaboration Is the Key | |
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| Ways to Ease in a Special Educator as a Partner in the Classroom | |
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| A Blueprint for Collaborative Teaching | |
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| Where Do You Go? A Co-Teaching Road Map | |
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| Scheduling Considerations for Co-Teaching | |
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| Effective Methods for Placing Students in a Co-Taught Classroom | |
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| Finding Time to Plan | |
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| Co-Teaching Daily Lesson Plans | |
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| Expanding Planning Time for Co-Teaching | |
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| Using Planning Time Effectively | |
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| Application: Putting Planning into Action | |
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| Co-Planning Agenda Tips | |
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| Procedures and Routines | |
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| Scheduling Co-Teaching | |
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| Collaboration: Working as a Team | |
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| What Is a Team? | |
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| Characteristics of Co-Teaching Teams | |
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| Forming an Effective Co-Teaching Team | |
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| Ingredients of Excellence for Your Co-Teaching Teams | |
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| Relationship Building Blocks | |
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| Team Preparation: What Do I Bring? | |
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| Team-Building Personality Preferences | |
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| Personality Style Activity | |
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| Co-Teaching Conversations | |
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| Co-Teaching Decision Making | |
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| Potential Challenges | |
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| Overcoming Roadblocks: Solutions | |
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| Dealing with Conflict | |
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| Steps to Take | |
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| Communication and Accountability Tools | |
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| Checking In: How Is Our Co-Teaching Going? | |
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| Collaborative Problem-Solving Worksheet | |
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| Organizing and Planning for Success | |
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| Celebrating All Learners: Strategies for Success | |
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| Helpful Online Resources | |
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| Physical Organization | |
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| Strategies for Flexible Grouping | |
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| Small-Group Strategies | |
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| Working Together for Small-Group Success | |
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| Advantages of Small-Group Instruction | |
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| Small-Group Planning | |
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| Points to Ponder: Large-Group Instruction | |
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| Planning for Large-Group Instruction | |
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| Independent Student Work | |
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| Goal Setting: Keeping Score | |
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| Choices, Not Chance, in Your Curriculum | |
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| Procedures and Routines | |
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| Co-Teaching Conversations | |
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| Routines That Are Important for Co-Teachers to Share | |
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| Looking at Your Classroom from a Student’s Perspective | |
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| Additional Procedure Pointers | |
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| Supporting Student Behavior | |
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| Classroom Rules That Work | |
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| Behavior Intervention Worksheet | |
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| Student Survey | |
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| How Are You Smart? Multiple Intelligences Survey | |
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| Schoolwide Organization: Administrative Issues | |
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| Schoolwide Issues | |
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| Barriers to Successful Co-Teaching | |
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| Professional Development Issues | |
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| Scheduling Issues | |
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| Effective Methods for Placing Students | |
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| Techniques for Classroom Caseloads | |
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| Guiding Principles | |
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| Student Study Teams: A Pre-Referral Strategy | |
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| Student Study Team Guidelines | |
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| Roles and Responsibilities of Team Members | |
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| How Administrators Can Support Co-Teaching | |
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| Other Ways Administrators Can Support the Co-Teaching Team | |
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| Observing Co-Teachers | |
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| Providing Feedback | |
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| Co-Teaching Observation Form | |
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| Accommodations and Modifications That Make a Difference | |
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| What Are Accommodations, Modifications, and Interventions? | |
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| Modification Versus Differential Standard | |
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| Accommodations and Modifications Log | |
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| Accommodations or Modifications? | |
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| Adapting Instruction Flow Chart | |
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| Planning Guide to Curriculum Modifications | |
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| Modifications ‘‘On the Move’’ | |
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| Co-Teacher Communication Cards | |
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| Checklist of Accommodations and Modifications | |
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| Focus on Curriculum Adaptations | |
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| Adaptation Application Activity | |
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| Strategies for Supporting Students with Special Needs in the General Education Classroom | |
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| A Closer Look at Special Needs Challenges and Choices for Co-Teaching | |
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| I Have a Student Who...: What to Do? | |
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| Modifications Based on Students’ Learning Styles | |
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| Adaptations and Modifications Chart | |
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| Class List: Adaptation Chart and Learning Profile | |
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| Evaluation Process in a Co-Taught Classroom | |
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| Accommodations for Testing in a Co-Taught Classroom | |
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| Revising Grading Procedures | |
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| Instructional Strategies for Different Types of Learners | |
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| Getting Started with Strategies That Make a Difference | |
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| Engaging Strategies for Co-Teaching | |
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| Your Multiple Intelligences Toolkit | |
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| Product Possibilities | |
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| Think-Tac-Toe Choice Menus of Activities | |
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| Think-Tac-Toe Activity Board | |
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| Vocabulary Bingo | |
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| Book Report Activity Board | |
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| Cubing | |
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| Cubing in the Content Areas | |
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| ‘‘Let ’em Roll’’: Cubing Task Cards | |
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| Bloom’s Building Blocks | |
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| Cubing Pattern | |
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| Cubing Companion Activity Sheet | |
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| Bloom’s Taxonomy | |
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| Graphic Organizers | |
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| Why Use Graphic Organizers? | |
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| How Do You Use Graphic Organizers? | |
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| Herringbone Graphic Organizer | |
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| Double-Entry Journal | |
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| Learning Centers | |
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| Centers Planning Guide | |
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| Keeping Students on Target | |
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| Learning Contract | |
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| Anchor Activities | |
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| Activating Strategies | |
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| Techniques to Set the Stage for Learning | |
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| Strategies to Support Learning During Instruction | |
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| A Closer Look: During-Instruction Strategies | |
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| After-Reading Strategies | |
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| Summarizer Activities to Reflect on Learning | |
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| Culminating Review Games | |
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| Reflecting on Practice and Planning Tools | |
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| Maintaining an Effective Co-Teaching Partnership | |
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| Taking It One Step at a Time | |
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| Co-Instruction: Where Are You Now? | |
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| The Co-Teaching Rating Scale | |
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| Co-Teaching Road Map | |
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| Looking Ahead: Planning Guide | |
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| Student Profile | |
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| Making the Most of Lesson-Planning Time | |
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| Co-Planning Agenda Framework | |
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| Lesson Preparation Pointers | |
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| Co-Teaching Lesson Planning Worksheet | |
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| Co-Teaching Lesson Planning Template | |
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| Keeping Track | |
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| Appendix Questions for Discussion | |
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| Notes | |
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| Additional Resources | |
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| Index | |