Math-Collab
UNITED Protocol
Steps for Co-Teaching Success
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UNITED Protocol
Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
Role
Individual
Beliefs
about
Teaching
and
Learning
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Michael
Brownare your individual beliefs about teac
Beliefs
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work, our words,
actions…what
and learning?
General Educator and Special Educator
Brown: My belief is that given an equal setting, all children have the
ability to learn with proper and creative teaching/guide.
Pagharion: Children learn meaningfully in a wholesome environment
that provides activities to target individual student’s learning needs.
UNITED Protocol
Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
Your team’s shared beliefs are cornerstone of your collaboration as co-teachers. These beliefs will
guide your words and actions as a team and contribute to how your function as a cohesive unit.
~ Capture your team’s shared beliefs ~
The beliefs you have in common
WE BELIEVE…
1. In creating a classroom environment that foster learning.
2. In differentiating instruction to cater to students individual needs.
3. In being fair to all students
4. In creating meaningful learning opportunities for every child to have an equal chance to
succeed academically.
5.
UNITED Protocol
Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
A vision statement is about significant improvement, the difference you want to make,
and where you want to end up as a co-teaching team.
OUR VISION
Is a co-teaching partnership that provides a nurturing learning environment,
which will afford all students the opportunity excel academically.
UNITED Protocol
Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
A mission puts your vision into practice.
What will you do to bring forth your vision ?
OUR MISSION
Is a co-teaching partnership that will collaboratively plan and design engaging
activities with the infusion of technology that will cater to student individual
needs.
UNITED Protocol
Unveil beliefs, vision and mission
The vision and mission should link together since the mission explains how
you will realize your vision.
OUR VISION and MISSION
Is a co-teaching partnership that will collaboratively plan and design engaging
activities with the infusion of technology, within a nurturing learning
environment, which will afford all students the opportunity excel academically.
UNITED Protocol
Name operating standards
A high performing co-teaching team is guided by core set of standards that promote positive interactions
and efficiency. Operating standards foster a basic discipline for high performance teamwork.
BOUNDLESS LEARNING CO-TEACHING: Operating Standards
• Listen to understand.
• Complete activities on time.
• Participate and contribute to the team.
• Respect each other.
• Offer help willingly.
• Be organized and prepared.
• Be aware of the established universal classroom
norms/routines
UNITED Protocol
Identify six high performance teaming principles
LOOKS LIKE..SOUNDS LIKE..FEELS LIKE
POSITIVE INTERDEPENDENCE
“Sink or Swim Together”
• Demonstration of an understanding that all members of the co-teaching
team are vital to reaching the team’s goals
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTABILITY
“No Free Riders”
• Demonstration of an understanding that all team members share equal
responsibility and roles in all aspects of the classroom and instruction
PERFORMANCE MONITORING
“Check it out”
• Assessment of the co-teaching team’s progress in reaching team goals and
demonstration of teaming principles and operating standards
• Support of one another to maximize your individual and team potential
• Shared decision making about areas of improvement and change
• Active involvement of all team members in every aspect of co-teaching:
planning, implementation, assessment
ENGAGEMENT & MOMENTUM
“Energize and Execute”
• Frequent and purposeful interactions
• Collaborative data analysis, problem-solving, and exchange of information
and resources
• Energy, involvement, interactions of the co-teaching team benefits students
COLLABORATIVE COMPETENCE
“All for One and One for All”
• Competence and cooperation in planning, implementing, managing, and
evaluating co-teaching
TECHNOLOGY OPTIMIZATION
“Power Up and Produce”
•
Use of technology to fulfill co-teaching responsibilities
•
Shared responsibility for integrating technology tools that improve student
performance and learning
• Positive conflict resolution
UNITED Protocol
Target goals and roles
Goals direct planning and teaching activities and provide benchmarks for co-teacher to
assess progress throughout the year.
Specific with clear outcomes of what you want to accomplish
Measurable indication of what you accomplished
Attainable through a series of action steps
Results-oriented toward targeted change
Time-bound with clear action steps across a manageable timeline
TIMELINE
SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE TARGETS
RESULTS
November 4
Weekly co-planning meetings
Shared roles during instruction
Starting
September 24
and every week
thereafter
Co-teaching planning three times per
week. 40mins
Lesson Planning
Station teaching/alternative teaching
Designed activities
Allow 10-15 minutes for parent contact.
Allow 10 minutes to check student
work/progress
UNITED Protocol
Target goals and roles
While the collective effort among co-teachers is shared, individual roles and
responsibilities may vary based on areas of expertise, background, and
experience. Co-teaching success derives from the artful blend of individual
knowledge, skills, experience, and backgrounds into a balanced, collaborative
team.
If your role demands a higher level of expertise than you current have, consider
your plan for your professional growth and development.
Access the Primary Co-Teaching Roles, Responsibilities, and Expertise Form.
As you work through each statement, discuss and record how your
individual roles combine to create a balanced co-teaching team.
UNITED Protocol
Establish team identity
Math, group activities, want great student
participation
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Share 3 – 5 interests, activities, work style, etc.
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Identify commonalities & differences
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well verse in math
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Generate team name that reflects your beliefs
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Notify stakeholders (administrators, students,
colleagues, parents ) of your team identity
done
UNITED Protocol
Determine logistics for working together
Logistics is about managing the flow of information, resources, and people’s needs in
order to meet the goals of a group/team or organization. It is developing a support
system that moves a program forward.
Developing a logistics plan allows co-teachers to dialogue and make critical decisions
together that address the complexities of daily life in a classroom environment.