Reading Responses 13-15

Reading Response 13

RR13: IDENTIFY what co-teaching approaches were modeled this week.

The co-teaching approaches that were modeled this week include:

Supportive: Supportive co-teaching allows one teacher to take the lead in instruction while the other rotates among the students providing support.

Parallel: Parallel co-teaching consists of two ormore people working with different groups of students in different sections of the classroom.

Complementary: Co-teachers do something to enhance the instruction provided by the other co-teacher(s). This includes paraphrasing, note-taking, small group work, etc.

Team: Team co-teaching is when two or more people do what the traditional teacher does (plan, teach, assess, and assume responsibility for all of the students in the classroom). Teachers simultaneously deliver lessons and alternate between taking the lead adn being the supporter.

Reading Response 14

RR14: DESCRIBE the co-teaching approaches you will use in you ITU (Task 5).

The co-teaching approaches that we will use in our ITU is mostly complementary and parallel co-teaching. Connections to the other classes participating in the ITU will be explicit, since all four teachers will plan for teaching and assessing together. Team co-teaching will also be prevalent in the way of co-grading; all four teachers will be assessors in the final project and Mr. Gordon and Ms. Calderon will be grading another project together.

 Reading Response 15
RR15: DESCRIBE in your lesson plans who, what when, how and why in regards to the co-teaching approaches (Task 7)

All four teachers will parallel co-teach the first week in our unit. We will use the first week as an introduction to the ITU and give our students all of the same information in our respective classes. The rest of the unit will consist of the students working on different assignments that will come together in the service learning and final assessment.

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