One Plans, One Reacts
Co-Instruction Strategies
Co-Teaching at ECU
Co-Instruction Strategies
Supplemental Teaching
This strategy allows one teacher to work with students at their expected grade level, while the other teacher works with those students who need the information and/or materials extended or remediated.
Benefits
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Provides additional support for struggling students
Facilitates enrichment opportunities
Offers absent students “catch up” time
Offers time to develop missing skills
Keeps individuals and the class on pace
Examples
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One works with most of the students on proofreading their stories; the other pulls five students for a remedial lesson on punctuation.
One teaches a lesson on the Sit-Ins; the other pulls a group of three to help research on the computer the men involved in the Greensboro Sit-In and then report to the whole class.
Non-Examples
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One teaches a small group a remedial lesson on fractions, while the other brings the rest of the class outside for recess.
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One person’s ideas prevail regarding what will be taught and how it will be taught.
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