Teaching for Results
Best Practices in Integrating Co-Teaching and Differentiated Instruction
By (author) Matthew J. Jennings
Publication date:
02 August 2012Length of book:
126 pagesPublisher
R&L EducationDimensions:
228x154mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781610487832
Collaborative teaching has the potential to improve the performance of both students and teachers. However, this method is not regularly capitalized in many schools because teachers who are assigned to co-teach often lack task-specific knowledge and skills to better prepare them. Fortunately these skills can be learned. In addition to establishing a solid foundation of teamwork skills, Teaching for Results will explain how to use the structure of co-teaching to practically and effectively implement differentiated instruction in their classrooms. This essential guide will demonstrate to readers how to use best practices in differentiated instruction in order to effectively co-manage, co-assess, co-plan, and co-instruct a diverse group of learners in any general education classroom.
Teaching for Results: Best Practices in Integrating Co-Teaching and Differentiated Instruction is an excellent treatise on co-teaching [because it] lays out an approach to understanding and applying co-teaching in a manner that is practical, logical, and sensible…Moving from a well-founded theory of practice (co-teaching) to actual guidance for practice, Jennings provides practical explanations of key concepts—content validity, inter-rater reliability, and intra-rater reliability—as applied in a co-teaching situation, as well as practical, ready-to-use tools, such as an IEP summary sheet, a list of potential classroom routines, and a unit planning template. Teaching for Results is orderly, easy-to-follow, and offers a logical flow as it connects pre-implementation steps, assessment, planning, and instruction for co-teaching classrooms. By introducing chapters and key concepts with vignettes, the book comes alive by making logical connections between the theory of practice and actual practice. In conclusion…I highly recommend Dr. Jennings’s book for any teacher or principal who is engaged in a co-teaching environment and for those who are even contemplating implementing co-teaching down the road.