Co-Teaching With Technology

Angela Breneman

Twitter Handle: @TeachLove4SpEd

brenemana@albionschools.net

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About Us

Donna Gilman

• 5th Grade General Education Teacher
• 28 years teaching
• 21 years at ACS
• Major Michigan State fan

Carrie Fisher

• 4th Grade General Education Teacher
• 15 years teaching at ACS
• Resource Room for 5 years
• 1st to fully implement full inclusion(co-teaching) in district
• Mom of 3 crazy boys, 8 and under

Angela Breneman

• Resource Room Teacher for 3rd-5th graders
• 3 years teaching but 9 years in special education field
• Animal lover- Has 2 dogs and 5 cats

• Albion Community School teachers
• Passionate about reaching all students

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What is Co-Teaching?

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Friend and Cook(2004) defines co-teaching as two or more teachers delivering instruction at the same time in the same physical space to a heterogeneous group of students.

Let’s Look at a BAD Example

Why Should Someone Co-Teach?

Benefits for all students:

• Serve all students with and without disabilities.
• Shared responsibility among teachers.
• Variety of teaching strategies are used.
• Differentiation among all students needs.
• Great for in classroom RTI.
• Special Education Teacher gets to know students that may be referred to child study team.
• Students feel like they have “two teachers.”

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Why Should Someone Co-Teach?(cont.)

Benefits for students with disabilities:

• Students are not pulled out.
• They will not miss any academic general education class work.
• Students will not become dependent on teacher in small group in a different setting.
• They are not easily “labeled” by other students because they are going with another teacher.
• Students will feel more connected to peers that are in general education setting 100% of the time.
• Follows the guidelines of IDEA for LRE.

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Image from: http://gauravhardikar.com/tech_education/images/classroom-tech.jpg

Different Models of Co-Teaching

(Friend and Cook, 2004)

• One teach, one observe
• Parallel teaching
• Station Teaching
• Alternative Teaching
• Team Teaching
• One teach, one assist

Collaboration Among Co-Teachers

• Google Docs
• Skyward
• Linoit
• Reviewing of Data
• Google Hangout

Google Docs

• Track discussions of when meeting.
• Post topics that would like to be discussed.
• Easy to refer back to a previous discussion.
• Can collaborate on ideas for meeting in 1 shared doc.

Linoit

• Post ideas
• Share groups of ideas on one topic
• Teachers can add more notes to Linoit board.

Google Hangout

• Can meet at anytime
• Video call
• Share screen
• Must have a Google account

Skyward

• Collaboratively work on entering assignments and grades.
• General and Special Education Teacher can monitor progress of all students.

4th Grade Co-Teaching

• Math
• 50 minutes long math session.
• Large population of RTI Tier 2 students & some students with disabilities in the classroom.
• Most used and favorite Model: Station Model
• Technology Tools being used
• Front Row
• IXL
• Promethean Board
• Math Apps
• GoFormative
• TodaysMeet
• Stoodle
• Computer based timer

IXL- Math

• Great tool for differentiation
• Listed as one of Common Sense Graphite Top “10 Math Tools Backed by Research”
• Common Core aligned areas
• Students can practice different math subjects from different grades
• Students earn medals for mastery

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Student Presentation of IXL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsqh3gz2uBQ

Example of Teacher Page on IXL

Details on:

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• Time spent on areas
• Amount correct
• Areas mastered

IXL Conferencing

• Focus on what students strengths and needs are.
• Dual form entry.
• Align students with learning disabilities IXL goals with IEP goals.
• Students self reflect.

IXL Conferencing (Continued)

• Encourages growth mindset.
• Students learn how to create attainable goals.
• Students celebrate achievements.
• Student-teacher relationship building.

Front Row

• Free
• Math practice
• Students work at their own pace
• Videos to assist students
• Works on iPads and the web
• Differentiated for all students
• Students earn coins

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After student take diagnostic you can create groups by mixed or same ability.

Allows you to look at student’s progress on specific standards.

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If students are using adaptive progress they may not all be at the same place since that adjusts as they go. With assigned practice you can make them work on specific areas.

When using adaptive feed you can:

• track each student’s progress
• See how many coins they have earned.

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You get great growth reports.

Other awesome features

• create assessments and immediate feedback
• option to create printables
• share with parents
• Common Core aligned
• There is extra features with school license but it is not free.

Promethean Board

• Interactive whiteboard
• Easy for students and teachers to use.
• Students and teachers can:
• Create
• Manipulate
• Interact
• Can create your own lessons or from Promethean World.

GoFormative

• Live student feedback
• Works on laptops and iPads
• Give students instant feedback

GoFormative

• Create an assessment or assignment online or drag and drop assignments
• Share results with co-teacher
• Export answers into Excel or Numbers document

TodaysMeet

• Great for quick pre and post assessment.
• Students can easily access chat.
• Chats can stay open for extended period of time.
• Can have variety of chats open at one time.

5th Grade Co-teaching

• English Language Arts
• 50 Minute Session
• High number of students with RTI Tier 2 Intervention
• Several Students with Learning Disabilities
• Variety of Co-Teaching Models used
• Technology being used
• Padlet
• TodaysMeet
• E-mail
• Linoit
• Google Forms
• Promethean Board

Google Forms and Sheets

• Record student data easily
• Save information on a sheet on Google
• Share data flawlessly with co-teacher
• Can add continuous data
• Students and teachers can create Forms easily

Responses

Today’s Meet

• Students share what book they studied(character, setting, theme, etc.) in their parallel co-taught groups.
• Students reflect on what they knew in the beginning and compared to what they know at the end.

Words Their Way Tools

• Students practice spelling and phonic using words their way
• Students are divided into groups
• Tools being used:
• SpellingCity
• Linoit
• Padlet
• E-mail teachers word sort when complete

Padlet and Linoit for Words Their Way

Padlet

• Students can easily create a padlet with or without an account.
• Students customize page.
• Teachers can leave comments for students.

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Padlet and Linoit for Words Their Way

Linoit

• Students create an account.
• Easier to use on iPads compared to Padlet.
• Students can save pages.
• Students customize page.
• Teachers can leave comments for students.

Example of Words Their Way Videos

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• Educreation
• Videos provided by Mike Brown:

http://goo.gl/ece47h

Great Resources about Co-Teaching

• Twitter Chats:
• #coteach
• #coteachat
• #Coteaching
• Google Plus Community:
• Instructional Coaching and Co-Teaching- http://goo.gl/u70z8g
• Pinterest:
• https://www.pinterest.com/angelab35/co-teaching/
• Utah Co-Teaching Handbook- http://goo.gl/dz5o03

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• Co-Teaching Connection- http://www.marilynfriend.com/ or http://coteach.com/
• Mr. Funkey Teacher’s Co-Teaching Page- http://www.mrfunkyteacher.com/teachers/co-teaching/

Co-Teaching: An Illustration of the Complexity of Collaboration in Special Education- http://goo.gl/5MKumv

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Questions?

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Time to play and roll the dice!

• Reflect how co-teaching could benefit your students.
• Pick a tool you learned about that you may want to use in your classroom when co-teaching or on your own.
• Create an account on the website of your choice.

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