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Schools are required to provide multilingual learners with specialized instruction, per federal and state laws and regulations. However, service delivery options vary from state to state and from school to school based on policies, mandates, demographics, and a range of other variables. Today, more and more schools are using collaborative integrated services and co-teaching to meet the needs of these learners.
This guide is designed to support for K-12 English Language Development (ELD) teachers and their general education colleagues as they engage in a complete collaborative instructional cycle consisting of co-planning, co-teaching, co-assessing, and reflecting on practice. It presents a collaborative planning framework, reviews coteaching models along with their respective advantages and disadvantages, and identifies critical questions for reflection on action.
Bradley S. Witzel, PhD, is the Adelaide Worth Daniels Distinguished Professor of Education at Western Carolina University. Before that he served as Distinguished Professor at Winthrop University. An award-winning teacher, he worked in multiple settings teaching mainly math and science to high achieving students with learning disabilities and difficulties. His work as a teacher carries through to his research where he develops and tests mathematics interventions. Dr. Witzel has authored 10 books, over 80 professional publications and over 50 specialized manuals and multimedia works. His most recent books include Rigor for Students with Special Needs (Routledge), Rigor in the RTI and MTSS Classroom (Routledge), Teaching Elementary Mathematics to Struggling Learners (Guilford Press), and Bridging the Arithmetic to Algebra Gap (Council for Exceptional Children). Having delivered over 700 conference papers and workshop presentations, Dr. Witzel focuses on the learning of children with specialized instructional needs. He has served as a board member consulting with several states on mathematics education, RTI and MTSS. He also served as an author/panelist on the Institute of Education Sciences RTI Math Practice Guide and an author/presenter on the Kansas Math Project. Most importantly, he is a husband of a beautiful Occupational Therapist and father of two intellectual and outspoken young women.
Dr. Sarah King is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in the Department of Special Education. Her research focuses on culturally and linguistically responsive mathematics instruction as well as the development of mathematics interventions for students experiencing mathematics difficulty. Through her work, Dr. King aims to enhance equitable access to high-quality mathematics instruction for all learners.
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