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The Co-Teaching Manual is a "how-to" manual describing how general education and specialists work together to educate students in an inclusive classroom. This manual provides step-by-step procedures to start and carry out a co-teaching program. It includes numerous reproducibles which are useful for monitoring student progress and facilitating communication between general educators and special educators and between teachers and parents.
What is Co-Teaching?
Co-teaching is an educational approach whereby general and specialists work together to deliver instruction to all students in inclusive classrooms. The teachers work as partners to jointly design, plan, and implement lessons appropriate for each student.
Some Benefits of Co-Teaching Include:
- More student enthusiasm and involvement
- Increased individual instruction for students
- More help available to students
- Students appreciate having variety of teaching styles
- Shared teacher responsibility
- Less teacher burnout
- Reduces discipline problems
- More excitement and creativity for teachers
- More grouping options
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