Teaching for Results: Best Practices in Integrating Co-Teaching and Differentiated Instruction [Paperback]

Collaborative teaching has the potential to improve the performance of both students and teachers. However, this method is not regularly capitalized in many schools because teachers who are assigned to co-teach often lack task-specific knowledge and skills to better prepare them. Fortunately these skills can be learned. In addition to establishing a solid foundation of teamwork skills, Teaching for Results will explain how to use the structure of co-teaching to practically and effectively implement differentiated instruction in their classrooms. This essential guide will demonstrate to readers how to use best practices in differentiated instruction in order to effectively co-manage, co-assess, co-plan, and co-instruct a diverse group of learners in any general education classroom.Matthew Jennings is superintendent of schools for Alexandria Township Public Schools. Prior to serving in this position, he served as an assistant superintendent, director of special services, supervisor of instruction, and special education teacher.

Teaching for Results: Best Practices in Integrating Co-Teaching and Differentiated Instruction is an excellent treatise on co-teaching [because it] lays out an approach to understanding and applying co-teaching in a manner that is practical, logical, and sensible&Moving from a well-founded theory of practice (co-teaching) to actual guidance for practice, Jennings provides practical explanations of key conceptscontent validity, inter-rater reliability, and intra-rater reliabilityas applied in a co-teaching situation, as well as practical, ready-to-use tools, such as an IEP summary sheet, a list of potential classroom routines, and a unit planning template. Teaching for Results is orderly, easy-to-follow, and offers a logical flow as it connects pre-implementation steps, assessment, planning, and instruction for co-teaching classrooms. By introducing chapters and key concepts with vignettes, the book comes alive by making logical connectionsl“6