Product Overview
This bundle consists of Marilyn Friends best-selling book, Co-Teach! and her best-selling laminated guide, Co-Teaching: Strategies to Improve Student Outcomes 2nd Edition.
The newly updated third edition of Co-Teach! is the definitive source of co-teaching information for teachers and administrators at the elementary, middle and high school levels. This easy-to-read handbook explains how educators can make their co-teaching programs the best they can be. It includes the most recent research on co-teaching, offers strategies and solutions that can be immediately applied in the classroom, and answers common questions, such as:
- What exactly is co-teaching?
- What the role of the paraprofessional is in a co-taught class?
- Why co-teaching is receiving so much attention in today’s schools?
- What co-teaching looks like in practice?
- How to address classroom matters such as the professional relationship, classroom management and student behavior, and differentiated instruction?
- How professionals are addressing time for shared planning and scheduling?
- How to develop and evaluate a co-teaching program?
Author Marilyn Friend, PhD has spent her career as a general education teacher, special education teacher, teacher educator, and staff developer. She is currently Chairperson and Professor of Education in the Department of Specialized Education Services at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she teaches coursework on inclusive practices and collaboration among service providers. She also currently is serving on the Board of the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children. She is one of the most in-demand consultants in the country for schools implementing co-teaching.
Co-teaching is a popular service delivery model for students who are entitled to special education or other specialized services, such as support services for English learners. Evidence shows that the implementation of co-teaching is significantly associated with improved student outcomes. However, for co-teaching to be effective, teachers need to thoroughly understand what the arrangement entails and what it takes to make co-teaching work.
In this updated edition of the best-selling, quick-reference laminated guide, Dr. Marilyn Friend, a renowned authority on co-teaching, provides educators with an overview of the fundamental “what,” “why,” and “how” of co-teaching.
Topics covered include:
- What is co-teaching?
- Why co-teach?
- What is the role of each teacher?
- What makes a strong partnership?
- Six co-teaching approaches
- Instruction in co-taught classrooms/understanding specially designed instruction (SDI)
- Co-teaching in the context of rigorous state standards
- Shared planning for co-teachers
