Using Co-Teaching Strategies to Increase Learning for All Students, Grades 6-12
Part I: Easy-to-Implement Strategies in Inclusion Classrooms

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Co-teaching is a dynamic way to create powerful learning experiences for all students in inclusion classrooms. A co-teaching partnership combines the curricular knowledge of a general education teacher with the skills and strategies of a special education teacher as they share in the planning, instruction, support and assessment of all students in a classroom. Effective co-teaching partnerships are built on communication, respect, and a commitment to helping every student learn and achieve.

This two-part video training program takes you inside secondary inclusion classrooms where special education and general education teachers are working together to improve the performance of all their students, especially students with disabilities. You will learn the characteristics of effective co-teaching, and you’ll see co-teachers collaborate in a variety of ways to provide different kinds of instruction and support to meet students’ needs.

The focus of Part I: Easy-to-Implement Strategies in Inclusion Classrooms is to introduce the concept of co-teaching and provide examples of simple, practical ways to implement co-teaching strategies that work in inclusion classrooms.

In Part II: Strategies that Maximize the Instructional Impact of Inclusion Classrooms, you will observe co-teaching approaches that truly utilize the strengths of both teachers to increase student involvement and further enhance student achievement in grades 6-12 inclusion classrooms.

Part I: Easy-to-Implement Strategies in Inclusion Classrooms
While co-teaching has the potential to greatly affect the success of students in inclusion classrooms, teachers may find it challenging to begin to implement this approach. In this videotape training program, you will see a number of practical, simple co-teaching strategies that can immediately be implemented in classrooms, grades 6-12. You’ll observe co-teaching techniques that increase students’ learning in whole-class lessons. These strategies are a practical way to initiate a co-teaching partnership. They require only a moderate amount of planning and adapt well to the itinerant schedules of many special education teachers.

Learn how to:

• prevent student "drifting" and promote on-task behavior in practical, classroom-proven ways
• facilitate middle and high school students’ application of reading, writing and study skills in content areas
• provide at-the-moment support to meet students’ needs in secondary general education classrooms
• increase students’ engagement with grade level text and concepts, even when reading is a challenge
• use innovative, time-effective ways to modify assessments, and find out what students really have learned
• share leadership roles in the classroom to the benefit of every student

Both of these practical, informative training programs demonstrate the incredible power of effective co-teaching partnerships to maximize the learning for all students in middle and high school inclusion classrooms. These programs feature national trainer Sonya Heineman Kunkel.

WHAT YOUR COLLEAGUES SAY

"We have found all of the videos exceptional. We use them extensively for staff development."
~ Judy Hobson, Curriculum/Instruction Program Coordinator

RESOURCE GUIDE

Included with this videotape training program is a Resource Guide with background information, narrative descriptions of strategeis and techniques demonstrated on the videos, and all the blackline masters and resources needed to implement the strategies.

The Resource Guide is designed:

For Trainers: providing workshop outlines, discussion questions, and all the blackline masters and materials you need to conduct training workshops.

For Self-Study: so this program can be added to your staff development library and checked out by individual teachers or teacher teams interested in independent study opportunities. The Resource Guide provides directions, blackline masters and all materials needed for self-study.

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Each individual video program in U.S. funds costs $379.00 plus 5% shipping and handling.
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