Product Overview
Co-teaching has evolved over the past four decades. Today, it is conceptualized as a service delivery option designed to accomplish three goals: (1) access to the general curriculum; (2) education in the least restrictive environment (LRE); and (3) improved student outcomes (Friend & Barron, 2021; King-Sears, et al., 2021; Losinski et al., 2019). In co-taught classes, attention is focused on the quality of instruction for students with disabilities in co-taught classes. The expectation is that co-teachers provide research-based specialized instruction because doing so enables students to reach state academic standards and prepares them for adult life.
This guide is a roadmap to help teachers, administrators, other school staff, and parents understand the requirements for specially designed instruction (SDI). It outlines versatile and validated strategies and techniques well-suited to co-teaching, although it is a small sample of the many SDI interventions available.
Sections include:
- SDI Fundamentals
- Co-Teaching Approaches
- Repeated Reading with Station Teaching
- Concrete-Representational-Abstract in Parallel Teaching
- Modeling with Alternative Teaching
- Planning for SDI Implementation
- Tips for Incorporating SDI into Co-Taught Lessons
