Teachers will do their best to teach the class. I know I learned this moral obligation from the sermon of my college professors during the class on principles of education and even during practice teaching. To most of us, we embodied the teachings and in everyday that we teach we always make sure that most of our students have gotten the lesson, if not all.
Last year, I heard some rumors about co-teaching to be implemented in our school. In my mind, I already picture the scenario of having two teachers in a class and there was only one goal from this strategy and that is to help the struggling kids in the class.
How does it work?
I attended the co-teaching workshop in Lug off, SC this summer. I drove for around an hour and 30 from my place. I thought I am not going to get tired with driving but at the end of the day I was. Well, I will just summarize the things I learned from the workshop. Just as I thought, it is only trying to put into a more orderly fashion the one that we did when we do team teaching or pair teaching in the Philippines when doing a review for a major exam. And it just that everything was quoted from authors who believed to be experts of the field. But at the end, I was puzzled by the idea that there was no proven statistical research that vouch the effectiveness of this strategy. The only basis were those testimonies and interviews conducted by the reseachers and authors of the books.
So to effectivey co-teach, you need to know the components. Here are some of it.
1. Administrative support
2. Planning time
3. Training and professional development
5. Grading
6. Class management
7. Individual space
8. Similar Philosophies
9. Avoid paraprofessional trap
10. Effective communication
To lear more of the Co-teaching research, you may want to check http://www.dldcec.org/ or http://www.teachinggld.org/
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