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UNITED Protocol
Steps for Co-Teaching Success
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UNITED Protocol
Unveil beliefs, vision, and mission
Beliefs guide our work, our words, our actions…what are your individual beliefs about teaching
and learning?
Role
Individual
Beliefs
about
Teaching
and
Learning
Matilda
William
All children can learn
Children need structure
All students should believe they
can be successful
Students need to feel that
they are valued.
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. All children can be successful
2. Structure is needed for children reach their potential
3.Students need to feel they are valued by the teachers
4.
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
Our vision is a co-teaching partnership where we will complement and support each other with the overall objective to
maximize student achievement.
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
We will employing multiple co-teaching models along with effective strategies to achieve student success.
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
Our vision is a co-teaching partnership where we will complement and support each other with the overall objective to
maximize student achievement by employing multiple co-teaching models along with effective strategies to achieve student
success.
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.
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 15
Weekly co-planning meetings
Shared roles during instruction
December 20
Try 2or 3 Co-Teaching Models
Decision of which models work the best
under given situations.
GOALS: (example)
By November 4, our team will meet weekly to co-plan lessons that use shared roles during our instruction as evidenced by our weekly
calendars and lesson plans.
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
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Share 3 – 5 interests, activities, work style, etc.
Dining out at Restaurants, Enjoy family time,
Getting papers graded as much as possible
before leaving school, sports, backgammon,
movies, TV, using internet, Dining out
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Identify commonalities & differences
Dining out
G
Generate team name that reflects your beliefs
Successful_Lions
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Notify stakeholders (administrators, students,
colleagues, parents ) of your team identity
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.