This course consist of 30 hours of online assignments and activities. Educators will receive 3.0 CEUs after the completion of this course. CEUs are issued by The North Mississippi Education Consortium. We can deliver this course online or onsite**. The cost for the online delivery is $65.
Workshop Description:
What does co-teaching look like in practice? Providing professional development on collaboration, inclusion and co-teaching can not be under emphasized. How are both teachers planning together? What is being planned? Co-teaching enables teachers to work together within the same classroom. Both will share the instructional duties or responsibilities within the curriculum. The ultimate goal to improve academic progress of all students while maintaining proper compliance's for students with learning disabilities. Co-teaching comes with the task of developing a working relationship among educators that fuels the power of teaching with the excitement of learning.
This workshop requires educators to implement new or improve current strategies in their education setting. All teachers will participant in peer classroom observations for learning and improving current practices. A district, school and teachers have to find the right balance for their environment. You will need a mentor or administrator to complete some parts of this workshop.
This workshop includes activities for creating your own S.M.A.R.T. goals. Teachers are strongly encouraged to participate in this activity as part of workshop. Discussions and chats are available for all educators to further engage in this activity. We also provide a PLC tool for teachers to use in their school. The PLC and the S.M.A.R.T goal tool is available for use after the completion of this workshop.
Each workshop has teacher workload information and activity. This discusses the need for balance of teacher workload. It is meant for teacher encouragement and accountability. The workloads of teachers is something that can be addressed through consistent team collaboration. Team collaboration is strongly encouraged in all workshops.
The coursework involves reading assignments that aides in thoroughly understanding the learning objective. Teachers are required to submit a lesson snippet of the learning objective. This is for the implementing the learning objective in real time. The workshop provides a peer observation activity to further ensure the learning objective is being used. It is the intent that all the activities, discussion and assessments help the educator achieve the needed outcome(s).
This workshop will focus on the following areas:
UNIT/WEEK 1
Learning Objective:
Teach one Observe one Strategy! (1) Have you every had a co-teaching experience? (2) Describe that experience? (3) Do you think this is a good strategy in education? (4) Describe the teach one and observe concept in your own words. (5) Describe your experience with it?
UNIT/WEEK2
Learning Objective:
Parallel Co-Teaching Strategy! (1) What is your professional opinion on Parallel Teaching. (2) Is your school or district using this strategy? (3) Have you every used this strategy as a teacher before this workshop? (4) How was your experience in the Parallel Teaching activity of this workshop?
UNIT/WEEK3
Learning Objective:
Station Teaching Strategy! (1) Station teaching utilize groups of students working together. Have you every used station teaching even if it was not in co-teaching setting? (2) If you have used station teaching, share some of your experiences. (3) If you have not used station teaching, do you think it would work in your school environment?
UNIT/WEEK4
Learning Objective:
Team Teaching Strategy! (1) Have you every had a team teaching experience? (2) How much planning did it take? (3) What role did you play? (4) Do you think team teaching is useful? (5) Do you believe team teaching should be required?
Extended Activities
Create Plan of Action using the following:
- S.M.A.R.T. Goals
- Specific (simple, sensible, significant)
- Measurable (meaningful, motivating)
- Achievable (agreed, attainable)
- Relevant (reasonable, realistic and resourced, results-based)
- Time bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive)
To make sure your goals are clear and reachable, each one should be:
Extended Activities
Components of Action Plan:
Identify task
Gather data
Develop strategies
Implement plan
Some References:
- First, you must Register on our online course system. Click the Register button below.
- After you created an account, login and select the course and pay ($65 per course).
