Your browser is not supported by the McKay School of Education. If you are having trouble viewing the current page please follow this link to download a compatible browser.

Co-Teaching: A Model for Classroom Management

 

One very effective strategy to meet the needs of students with learning difficulties is co-teaching (collaborative teaching or team teaching), an instructional arrangement that involves two teachers with different expertise sharing instructional responsibility for a general education class that serves a heterogeneous group of students, some of whom have IEPs and receive special education support.

Team teaching occurs when the two teachers share responsibility in delivering knowledge instruction, or when one teacher "shadows" the other to facilitate knowledge acquisition by students.