Using Co-Teaching Strategies to Increase Learning for All Students, Grades 6-12
Part II: Strategies that Maximize the Instructional Impact of 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 II: Strategies that Maximize the Instructional Impact of Inclusion Classrooms
When co-teachers increase their collaborative efforts and take full advantage of each other’s instructional knowledge and skills, they are able to maximize the level of support and instruction they provide to students.

In this training program, you will see powerful ways in which co-teachers use flexible grouping and differentiated instruction to reduce the classroom’s student-teacher ratio. These strategies enable teachers to equally share in content delivery, expand student engagement, and boost student learning. By observing several teams of experienced co-teachers, you’ll see the dynamics of effective co-teaching at work in real secondary classrooms.

Learn how to:

• plan instruction formally and "on-the-spot" to the benefit of all students
• creatively organize students for small group instruction within the regular classroom, grades 6-12
• monitor and manage group work to increase student engagement and make effective use of every minute of the class period
• target instruction to enhance student learning at the secondary level by addressing specific learning needs and styles
• maximize the effectiveness of co-teaching by tapping the creativity and instructional skills of both educators in grades 6-12 classrooms
• develop and maintain close co-teaching relationships

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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