Co-Teaching That Works: Structures and Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning

Our district is switching to co-teaching next year and this book is a great instruction manual with some wonderful worksheets to help with the planning.

I'm an eighteen year veteran special education teacher who is new to co-teaching. This book explains the different methods used in co-teaching and offers some instructional strategies. Questions are found at the end of each chapter for your team to discuss which can be helpful with the hard conversations that seem to be part of the growing process of co-teaching. I would strongly suggest reading this book and discussing the ideas with your co-teacher well in advance of the first co-taught class so you are better prepared for the reality of this type of teaching. Co-teaching is a challenge and both teachers need to be willing to be flexible so that all students can be successful.

Just what I ordered and needed.

Love it

I’m co-teaching for the first time this year and I wanted some info before I began. The author breaks down the models of co-teaching but maybe a bit too much. I found that the models blended into each other and it was very confusing when she separated them into 6 seperate categories, like “this is the skills and station models” but you also can use both of them with “duet” Why not just just state the top 3 models and use the smaller models “like skills or stations” as a way to use “duet?” I’m not sure if I’m making sense. I felt like I needed a visual map.

Anne M. Beninghof's Co-Teaching That Works is packed with applicable information. As someone who was not familiar with Co-Teaching, I feel I got everything I needed to know to be well versed on the subject in it's multiple forms (even defined different per state as noted in book). It's filled with examples, charts, questions, everything one (or shall I say two) teachers (and/or specialist) would need to co-teach. Anne M. Beninhghof provides solutions, plans, and her writing style is easy to comprehend and organized.What you'll find in this book:1. An Overview of Co-Teaching (what it is, research, benefits).2. Relationship Buliding: Common Challenges and Effective Solutions3. Implementation (classroom composition, planning time, grading, evaluation)4. The Duet Model5. Lead and Support Model6. Speak and Add Model7. Skills Groups Model8. Station Model9. Learning Style Model10. Parallel Teaching Model11. Adapting Model12. Complementary Skills Model13. Co-Teaching with a Technology Specialist14. Co-Teaching with a Special Education Teacher15. Co-Teaching with a Speech/Language Pathologist16. Co-Teaching with an Occupational or Physical Therapist17. Co-Teaching with a Paraeducator18. Co-Teaching with a Gifted Specialist19. Co-Teaching with a Literary Specialist20. Co-Teaching with an ELL Specialist21. Conclusion: Evolving PartnershipsEach chapter has a variety of examples, worksheets, tables, pros and cons, and ends with thought provoking questions and a bullet points summary.I will keep on hand as a great resource.

This is recommended for educators transitioning into the co-teaching model! Practical and accessible. Worth purchasing as a useful classroom resource.

So the cousin who is a teacher finally came back to me with her feedback on Jossey-Bass Teacher's "Co-Teaching That Works". The author is Anne Beninghof but I mention the publisher because both my cousin and I enjoy this publisher's line of books a lot and that had a lot to do with why I selected the book.There was another book on co-teaching that I gave to my cousin for her feedback that she liked but comparatively, this book she liked a lot better even if it didn't have as many checklists. She felt that the book did a very good job of presenting the co-teaching model in both theory and practical advice in a more concise manner. It was much easier to follow and she never felt overwhelmed so she could see herself being more open to the 'co-teaching' idea if she were new or unfamiliar with the concept.The only criticism she did have was the text font for the main text areas in that she said it was a little hard to read due to font and small size but otherwise, she gives it a 4.5 stars but since I can't do a half-star, we rounded up to 5 stars.