One Plans, One Reacts
Co-Instruction Strategies
Co-Teaching at ECU
Co-Instruction Strategies
Team Teaching
Well planned, team taught lessons exhibit an invisible flow of instruction with no prescribed division of authority.
Both teachers are actively involved in the lesson.
Benefits
Promotes role and content sharing
Facilitates appropriate academic, social, and help-seeking behaviors
Teaches question asking
Provides clarification (concepts, rules, vocabulary, etc.)
Examples
Both teachers share the reading of a story or poem so students hear two voices.
Both teachers conduct a demonstration in science, modeling proper use of materials and how to follow directions.
Non-Examples
Both teachers facilitate a review game where one reads all of the questions and the other monitors student behavior
One teacher teaches one subject followed by another who teaches a different subject
