Co-teaching during live virtual lessons will allow teachers to maximize their use of breakout rooms for small group instruction. It can also help with asynchronous lessons (recorded videos, independent work activities, etc.) by allowing both teachers to help with office hours, email responses to questions, etc.
Here are a few ideas to help with your co-teaching plans:
- Think Inclusive - Co-Teaching in the Age of Remote Learning (includes 15 ideas for what your co-teacher could do)
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Models of Co-Teaching (focus first on station, parallel and alternative models)
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Formative assessment information can/should drive how you group students in breakout rooms.
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One structure to consider: Launch-Explore-Summarize
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Launch - this is warm-up (a small group could skip this to get some extra instruction with the other teacher)
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Explore - “meat” of the lesson - use the co-teaching models from above
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Summarize - this is the large group wrap-up/share out (a small group could skip this to get more support or an extension for GAT students)
