It has allowed me to serve more students during the intervention time than I did previously; and with less stress. We arranged it so that some of our lowest students are in the intervention class together. We have 12 students and 2 teachers. It is such an awesome opportunity for me (as a gen ed teacher) to have so few students at a time!
We had some conversation about how best to coteach, because it is not very common in our school or even in our area of the state. But this teacher is also a reading teacher, so we thought it would work well to have her do vocabulary and then I can work on the content for each of our weekly units. Here is a breakdown of what our week looks like:
THURSDAY:
- Opening Task: fluency practice
- Vocabulary (as a class we make flashcards for our vocabulary words for the week)
- Very simple intro to the content
FRIDAY
- Opening Task: counting circle
- Split Class: Vocab and Content then switch so all students get both
- Finish content work
- Exit Ticket
MONDAY
- Opening Task: counting circle
- Split Class: Vocab and Content then switch so all students get both
- Finish content work
- Exit Ticket
TUESDAY
- Opening Task: fluency practice
- Split Class: Vocab and Content then switch so all students get both
- Finish content work
- Exit Ticket
WEDNESDAY
- Opening Task: counting circle
- Vocab and Content assessment
- (every other week we progress monitor)
Most of the ideas for how to structure this came from the project with the AEA. We just manipulated it to fit our situation best. Let me know what you like or what you would change if it was you!
-Kathryn
After 17 years, I am co-teaching for the first time this semester, and the split structure appeals to me greatly. It is a strategy I have tried with bigger classes, and it is a pleasure to be able to talk math in smaller, more intimate spaces, rather than holding whole-class lecture. Also, we are trying standards-based quizzes with re-dos, and will sometimes place students in stratgeic groups to review assessments, or extend learning. Great stuff. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you are getting the opportunity as well! Would love to hear if there are other ways you take advantage of coteaching.
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