Beyond Co-teaching Basics: A Data-driven No-fail Model For Continuous Improvement

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Collaborative teaching, or co-teaching, is a powerful way to support the learning of students with diverse learning needs. But how do you know when you're doing it right? And if you're not, what can you do about that? Authors Wendy W. Murawski and Wendy W. Lochner introduce the Collaborative Teaching Improvement Model of Excellence (CTIME), a continuous improvement model that embraces personalized professional learning to ensure that teachers meet the core competencies for co-teaching without burning out along the way.

Incorporating a systematic application of collaborative groups, data analysis, microteaching, feedback, and collegial support, CTIME is the culmination of the best research in the field.As Murawski and Lochner walk you through their data-driven, no-fail model of co-teaching, you'll learn about

• The CTIME process and how it works.
• Co-teaching core competencies measured schoolwide and at the classroom level.
• Assessment of progress toward mastery.
• Co-teaching action plans.
• Professional learning communities and schoolwide improvement.
• Co-teaching communities of practice and microteaching.
• Co-teaching facilitation, feedback, and reflection.

Offering a practical approach to achieving mastery of the co-teaching core competencies, this book provides dozens of strategies, resources, and templates that can be used by district-level administrators, principals, and co-teaching teams.

If you're ready to examine your co-teaching practices to make sure you're achieving the best possible outcomes for your students, then Beyond Co-Teaching Basics is for you.