CO-TEACHING

Co- teaching is a concept which allows two teachers to work together. They teach as a team sharing
responsibilities, it could also be a team which has all experienced person with an associate who would
be able to observe and learn the expertise and inherit the same from the experienced person. Co-
teaching could also be a technique used to teach children with special requirements where a special
needs teacher coordinates with a regular teacher, device differential strategies that might enable the
special needs kids to learn with enthusiasm.

Friend and Cook have identified several models of Co-teaching.

. One teach, one support

. Parallel teaching

. Alternate teaching

. Station teaching

. Team teaching.

One teach, One support: One teacher teaches the lessons and the other provides support, requirements
for kids during the class, gathers data after observation and extends support to manage the class.

Example: One teacher provides instruction and the other is the voice for the kids by asking queries.

Parallel teaching: The class is segregated and each of the teacher teaches the same concept or lesson to
all the sets of kids uniformly after planning together.

Example: Teachers lead the queries and respond in relation to issues such as current affairs relating to
history.

Alternate teaching: A major portion of the students in the class is facilitated by one teacher and the
minor category is taught by the other either inside or outside the classroom, it is always not necessary
that the minor group should be in concordance with the major set of students.

Example: one teacher shows the picture of a story and the illustrations in each page and elicits a
favourable response such as plot of the story, the other teacher does the same by showing flash cards
and models related to the story and gets the plot from the group of kids.

Station teaching: Teachers settle themselves at a specific station inside the class and divide the content
and teach a portion of it, the students go to that specific station to learn the instruction material from
the teachers.

Example: one teacher enacts as a shopkeeper to teach cost price and selling price while the other keeps a
clock and teaches the concept of time.
Team teaching: Both the teachers are actively engaged in planning, sharing the concepts and lessons
and execute it in the class, they encourage students to actively participate making the class interactive
and student centred, they do not lecture students but facilitate by bringing out the best through probing
and using a variety of strategies.

Example: Teachers use their voice to show stress, pause, intonation to teach role-play and differentiate
between the characters in a story.

TEACHING AIDES