ECE 301

Co-Teaching and Accommodating Diverse Learners

Co-teaching requires not only pedagogical skill on the part of the participants, but also a willingness to share and collaborate in the teaching of all students in the classroom. Co-Teaching is defined as two teachers working together sharing the planning, organization, delivery and assessment of instruction and physical space for the students they are teaching. Through this course you will gain knowledge about how co-teaching increases options for flexible grouping, enhances collaboration skills for the teachers involved, provides multiple perspectives to observe and solve problems, facilitates different strategies for classroom management, helps address student teaching ratio, increases instructional options for students and increases diversity of instructional styles. In addition students will explore the nature of conflict and the methods to resolve conflict with an emphasis on collaborative problem solving and mediation. The student will become familiar with his or her own style and teaching models that engage diverse learners. From that awareness, the student will investigate and evaluate the responsible use of styles and strategies within effective teaching models plus the synthesis, application, and assessment of models within diverse learning contexts. The student will integrate insights for maximizing styles, teaching strategies, and assessments within a plan for developing best practices.

Units: 3.0