Collaborative+Teaching

What's in a name? Cooperative teaching aka team teaching aka collaborative teaching
====Over the past few years co-teaching has become more popular, as school districts search for ways to best serve the needs of their English language learners. The burning questions here are, what is co-teaching, and does it work?==== ====Find opinions and answers, examples of co-teaching approaches, pros and cons of co-teaching, and more when reading any or all of the documents below. Simply click on a link to access the file in question.====

[[file:CoTeachingModels.pdf]]
====Below you will find links to a two-part You Tube video clip on cooperative teaching in a History class at the Shanghai American School (2005). Before you watch it, read the reflection accompanying the clip by one of the co-op teachers:====

//“[The] experience of being a second teacher in the content-area classroom […] is some good fodder for thinking beyond school-as-usual.//
====//Any of you who have co-taught or team-taught know the mix of factors that can make it a nightmare or a paradise. Working with fellow history teacher Michael Harvey (now in Abu Dhabi) was a dream. I discuss this in the movie below, and students weigh in on why they liked it too.//==== ====//I still miss having a second adult in my English and history classes today. ESL aside, it just creates possibilities for better teaching - primarily by giving students the experience of hearing two “expert” adults argue about literary, social, political, and other issues. Michael and I debated such things as Castro’s Cuban revolution, American imperialism during and after the Cold War, the merits of economic, political, and religious systems, etc, with sincere differences. We fenced about them in free-wheeling debates whenever one of us disagreed with the other. We told the students to decide whose arguments had the most merit.//====

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====//The students loved it. It was learning the family dinner-table way, with two reasonably intelligent, informed adults discussing and debating world events. “Kids” with ears learn a lot that way about thinking and points of view."//====