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May 17, 2015

Today, I am honored to interview Anne Beninghof Twitter. Anne is an expert at coteaching and consults with districts about it.

In this episode, we talk about the following:

  • What is coteaching?
  • How little things become problematic
  • Paraprofessionals in the classroom
  • Resources on her web site
  • How to introduce teachers to the idea of coteaching
  • Choosing partners
  • Youtube Channel
  • Needs for teachers working together: Flexible personalities, common planning time, common philosophies about teaching and behavior management.
  • Expectation about actually using planning time.
  • Try to avoid a divorce in the coteaching relationship
  • Co teachers Need a coach.
  • Specific structures and procedures help coteaching partnership
  • Tap into teachers’ unique skill sets
  • One-minute formative assessments
  • 65% of class time spent in something other than whole group
  • Last couple minutes specialist takes lead
  • Parallel grouping
  • Professional learning & communication is a constant
  • 9 models of coteaching.
  • Duet model
  • Parallel model
  • Lead and support model
  • Other 7 models are ingredients
  • Don’t let students play one teacher against another
  • Ratios: no more than 30% of students on IEPs
  • Plan approach for talking to parents about coteaching model.

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