Use Co-Teaching to Support Teachers

Read the article "How Instructional Coaches Can Use Co-Teaching to Support Teachers"

https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-instructional-coaches-can-use-co-teaching-support-teachers

The author suggests the use of a matrix based on Low/High Belief in Student Ability and Low/High Belief in Teacher Ability.

What decision-making process did you/do you use approach to co-teaching? Provide examples.

How does your decision-making process contrast with this Decision-Making Matrix?

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this Decision-Making Matrix?

Journal your reactions to these scenarios with the Decision-Making Matrix as your guide:

1. A direct request from a teacher for you to co-teach because her kids "fool around too much" during group work

2. A direct request from a teacher for you to co-teach following a classroom observation where they were told district-provided technology is "not being used effectively."

What would be your first step?

What additional information do you need to gather?

What do you need to learn/research to prepare yourself?

Which approach would you use (Team Teach, Live Coach, Model Teach, Teach & Support)?