Did you know there are four approaches to co-teaching? I didn't. I thought there was only one way and it was #4. This article I found on Teach Hub.com, Effective Co-teaching Strategies by Dr. Richard Villa. He describes the four collaborative teaching approaches and he has a cool chart which describes how the co-teaching approaches are similar, how they are different and what the potential problems are with co-teaching.
The four approaches are:
1. Supportive co-teaching - where the one member of the team takes the lead role and the other member rotates among students to provide support.
2. Parallel Co-teaching - where support personnel and the classroom teacher instruct different heterogeneous groups of students.
3. Complementary Co-teaching - where a member of the co-teaching team does something to supplement or complement the instruction provided by the other member of the team (e.g., models note taking on a transparency, paraphrases the other co-teacher’s statements)
4. Team Teaching - where the members of the team co-teach along side one another and share responsibility for planning, teaching, and assessing the progress of all students in the class.
Check it out! Effective Co-Teaching Strategies
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