experience with co-teaching?

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My son will be going in to 5th grade next year. We are asking for more intensive remediation (specifically 1:1 in areas of greatest need) since the same IEP goals have been in place for three years without ever reaching them. They want to “TRY” co-teaching. I have done some digging around on that and all the experts say that co-teaching is successful IF DONE PROPERLY by those experienced in co-teaching classroom. Well, this would be new in our district and I am very apprehensive about agreeing to it since they have never done it before. And the sped teacher who would be co-teaching with the gen ed teacher is the one who has been unsuccessful in reaching these same IEP goals in the first place. Any one out there with experience or opinions on the co-teaching situation? thanks

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/24/2002 - 6:13 PM

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Is the sped teacher co-teaching the class with the gen-ed teacher?
Will she no longer have sped duties except with this one class?

My son has been in two co-teaching rooms, one I thought was a
disaster as one teacher got sick, there were long term subs, then the
teacher left for the rest of the year, more subs.
So who knows how it would have run.

Second class had one teacher in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Both were sterling teachers and it was a great year.

As for reaching IEP goals.
Frankly, I don’t pay much attention to them.
Maybe I should.
But I look at overall progress.

Anne

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 04/24/2002 - 9:57 PM

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The model would provide the intensive remediation you want and I think yo’re correct the special ed teacher is no more likely to be successfull in this model then in pull-out model.

Helen

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/25/2002 - 3:07 PM

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Okay let me first start by saying you guys are killing me with these Great topics! Except it’s my day off and I haven’t gotten to the laundry mat yet!

Okay my thoughts on coteaching. How many kids will be co-taught? You are requesting 1 on 1 remediation,and they want to place him in the reg ed class that will have a special ed teacher there. This would not be one on one,not even close.

How there will the sped teacher be? Is the class in need of the sped teacher too? In one way this could be a great situation. IF the sped teacher was also teaching the whole class alternative ways to learn math,or what ever the subjects are.
But is this teacher pulling select kids three time a week over to a table inside the classroom and trying to teach them the very same way the reg ed teacher is,then he won’t meet his goals again. Or in other words.helping them with the classwork.
The goal needs to be finding out how he learns,not forcing him to learn the classes way,if this had of worked then he would have made progress already right?

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