Journal 9

In part of this lesson, we learned about different co-teaching strategies. They were as follows:

• one teach, one observe
• one teaches, the other observes how the students are doing and paying attention
• one teach, one assist
• one teaches, the other assists as the lesson goes along
• station teaching
• divides class into groups, each spending a certain amount of time at each
• parallel teaching
• each teacher takes half the class presenting same material to all using same teaching strategy
• supplemental teaching
• one teacher works with those at level, other works with those who need more instruction
• alternative teaching
• different teaching methods resulting in same result with all students
• team teaching
• both teachers involved in teaching without one overpowering the other

I liked learning about these because you can see the different styles, and thus helping you decide what works for you if you teach with another person in the same class. They should also remember that they can alter throughout time as long as it benefits the students. One strategy may work for one subject, but not for another, so it's important that the teachers quickly pick up on what strategy to use for what subject.