Co-Teaching

[jadams]

Is anyone out there doing any co-teaching (old term co-lab or inclusion) in the middle school grades? I am really having a hard time changing directions with my thinking and would really appreciate any help and directions on getting started. My school is very agreeable and scheduling is not a problem.

[Sasha96]

I've done some but the teacher was not as open to it as I would have liked. Change isn't an easy thing in that building! Nevertheless, I enjoyed the success of the collaboration for the students. It was easier to tie the curriculum into what I was doing than in "pull-out" sessions and students were able to see directly how to apply the strategies I had taught them in those pull-out sessions, espeically for visualizing and verbalizing, auditory processing, vocabulary, the use of the graphic organizers I used, social skills, and fluency.

[miasmom]

I work in Canada, and in my school board SLPs are not doing co-teaching. I have been working with our Resource Teachers (I think you would call them special ed. teachers). One of the things we have been discussing is co-teaching. We have reviewed a really easy-read "A Guide to Co-Teaching." by Villa, Thousand, and Nevin. There are some references to SLPs in this book, and how they could use the co-teaching model with different schools (elementary, middle, and high school). Hope this helps.