Co-Teaching
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Haley Fryman
This three-minute video discusses the importance of parallel
teaching. In the video, you can see that there are four different stations. The
two teachers are each running their own station, and then there are two other
stations that students can either work at independently or as a group. Station
teaching can help teachers spend more time with students on a smaller teacher
to student ratio scale. Station teaching also allows teachers to focus on many
different areas that students may need a little more help with simultaneously,
instead of having multiple large lessons to help meet the student’s needs. An
example of station teaching would be if there was one station where students
read with a partner, one station where the teacher is doing running records, one
station where students are independently writing in journals, and one station
where students are practicing spelling words on a whiteboard with other
students. Each station could last about fifteen minutes, and allowing students
to work on multiple aspects of literacy such as reading, writing, and spelling.
C. (2015, July 22). Station Teaching. Retrieved February 09, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrprg1r7kSs
Haley, while looking for a video to share on this blog, I also watched this video and loved it!! This is a great example of co-teaching and is similar to what we do in our clinicals. I love station teaching and i think it is very effective in the classrooms. In my clinicals right now, there is a lot of station teaching going on and students really enjoy it! i think that co-teaching and station teaching is a good way for students to interact with other teachers and get different ideas. Station teaching allows more one-on-one with the teacher and student because there are less students in groups and more teachers available to the students. This was a great video, and i loved watching it!!
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