Team Teaching | Co Teachingatecu

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

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