Co-Teaching That Works: Structures and Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning

I'm an eighteen year veteran special education teacher who is new to co-teaching. This book explains the different methods used in co-teaching and offers some instructional strategies. Questions are found at the end of each chapter for your team to discuss which can be helpful with the hard conversations that seem to be part of the growing process of co-teaching. I would strongly suggest reading this book and discussing the ideas with your co-teacher well in advance of the first co-taught class so you are better prepared for the reality of this type of teaching. Co-teaching is a challenge and both teachers need to be willing to be flexible so that all students can be successful.

I’m co-teaching for the first time this year and I wanted some info before I began. The author breaks down the models of co-teaching but maybe a bit too much. I found that the models blended into each other and it was very confusing when she separated them into 6 seperate categories, like “this is the skills and station models” but you also can use both of them with “duet” Why not just just state the top 3 models and use the smaller models “like skills or stations” as a way to use “duet?” I’m not sure if I’m making sense. I felt like I needed a visual map.

This is recommended for educators transitioning into the co-teaching model! Practical and accessible. Worth purchasing as a useful classroom resource.

Our district is switching to co-teaching next year and this book is a great instruction manual with some wonderful worksheets to help with the planning.

Just what I ordered and needed.

Love it

I am a veteran special education teacher. I am also fortunate to have been part of an effective co-teaching team for over ten years. I read MS Beininghof's book, and I found useful information in it. This is a really nice book. There is a lot of information in it that I did not know. I shared this with a few of the other special educators in the special education department at my school. Generally, they liked it. One interesting thing was that most of us saw things in there that we already knew, but everyone also found practical things in the book that they did not already know.She has a lot of information in there for 'new' co-teaching teams. There are lists of questions new teams should think about together, everything from individual personalities to teaching styles, assessment. planning, management, and more. There are also sections for co-teaching with ESL teachers, speech therapists, paraprofessionals, and more. I found some of those to be superfluous, as many of these specialists do not co-teach in my district.She also has several reproducables in the book, many of which are useful as is. The others may need some individualization to particular needs, but are useful models.I have only one disagreement with the author, but I consider it significant. Ms Beininghof considers the 'duet' model to be the single best model for co-teaching. Considering the large number of different skill levels and varying disabling conditions co-teaching teams confront, ALL models must be considered, based on student population, content, and other factors. Differentiated Instruction implies different teaching models all being appropriate for delivery of instruction in different situations.If you have never co-taught before, or even if you have, this is a very useful book.

This is an informative resource on the practice of co-teaching. The author has many years of co-teaching experience and is recognized as an expert on the subject. This book explains the different methods used in co-teaching and offers some valuable strategies. It also includes forms, and charts to help make your co-teaching experience as successful as possible. This is one of the most "down to earth" teaching guides I have read in years, and while it is the only co-teaching book I have read, I feel like I now have a working understanding of the practice. I highly suggest it