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Collaboration and Co-Teaching: Strategies for English Learners
"Honigsfeld and Dove highlight the importance of a whole-school approach to the teaching of English language learners, where the collective expertise of teachers is harnessed through collaboration and co-teaching. This approach ensures that all teachers gain access to instructional strategies that promote student engagement and accelerated academic development."
―Jim Cummins, Professor
University of Toronto, Canada
"This new resource is exceptionally timely. The book provides educators with a much-needed road map for making true collaboration and co-teaching a reality. At a time when schools are facing limited resources and more demand for improved student performance, the effective instructional approaches in this book are essential for educators and English language learners alike."
―Jana Echevarria, Professor Emerita
California State University, Long Beach
Help ELLs achieve success with an integrated, collaborative program!
Teacher collaboration and co-teaching are proven strategies for helping students with diverse needs achieve academically. Now this practical resource provides a step-by-step guide to making collaboration and co-teaching work for general education teachers and English as a second language (ESL) specialists to better serve the needs of English language learners (ELLs).
The authors address the fundamental questions of collaboration and co-teaching, examine how a collaborative program helps ELLs learn content while meeting English language development goals, and offer information on school leaders′ roles in facilitating collaboration schoolwide. Featuring six in-depth case studies, this guide helps
Understand the benefits and challenges of collaborative service deliveryChoose from a range of strategies and configurations, from informal planning and collaboration to a fully developed co-teaching partnershipUse templates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practiceEvaluate the strategies′ success using the guidelines, self-assessments, and questionnaires included Collaboration and Co-Teaching helps ESL, ELL, and general education teachers combine their expertise to provide better support for their ELLs!
―Jim Cummins, Professor
University of Toronto, Canada
"This new resource is exceptionally timely. The book provides educators with a much-needed road map for making true collaboration and co-teaching a reality. At a time when schools are facing limited resources and more demand for improved student performance, the effective instructional approaches in this book are essential for educators and English language learners alike."
―Jana Echevarria, Professor Emerita
California State University, Long Beach
Help ELLs achieve success with an integrated, collaborative program!
Teacher collaboration and co-teaching are proven strategies for helping students with diverse needs achieve academically. Now this practical resource provides a step-by-step guide to making collaboration and co-teaching work for general education teachers and English as a second language (ESL) specialists to better serve the needs of English language learners (ELLs).
The authors address the fundamental questions of collaboration and co-teaching, examine how a collaborative program helps ELLs learn content while meeting English language development goals, and offer information on school leaders′ roles in facilitating collaboration schoolwide. Featuring six in-depth case studies, this guide helps
Understand the benefits and challenges of collaborative service deliveryChoose from a range of strategies and configurations, from informal planning and collaboration to a fully developed co-teaching partnershipUse templates, planning guides, and other practical tools to put collaboration into practiceEvaluate the strategies′ success using the guidelines, self-assessments, and questionnaires included Collaboration and Co-Teaching helps ESL, ELL, and general education teachers combine their expertise to provide better support for their ELLs!
248 pages, Paperback
First published August 10, 2010
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January 7, 2017
Ultimately a useful, but very limited, book.
While the foundations and strategies outlined in this book are strong, I found it less than useful for my own teaching practice. The authors seem to only consider co-teaching and collaboration methods for teachers who aren't spread across multiple buildings. I teach middle school/junior high, and looked eagerly at the potential scheduling examples, because we are currently looking to build a more collaborative model. However, not only did the teaching schedule outlined assume that the teacher in question was in the building full-time (I spend an hour per day in a different building), they assumed that the teacher in question was able to devote him/herself fully to ONE GRADE LEVEL. With that kind of time on my hands, figuring out my co-teaching schedule wouldn't be something I'd need a book to help with.
I realize that my situation isn't ideal for collaboration and co-teaching... but neither is it unique. There are pockets of ELLs at schools across the country large enough to qualify for ESL staffing, but not large enough to implement the grand-scale schedules outlined in the book.
I'm left with a lot of questions. What *IS* best practice for collaboration and co-teaching in more staff-limited situations? If I can only co-teach in one content area per grade, which should I choose? How do I organize students so that their needs are best met in the classes taught by teachers with whom I am unable to directly collaborate on a regularly scheduled basis?
The book guided me to a comprehensive understanding of the "best-case scenario," but ultimately no closer to more effectively collaborating in my (yes, challenging) teaching situation. A section titled "So, Yeah, You Don't Have The Staffing To Do the Whole Shebang" (or, you know, the same idea written more professionally) would have been a useful addition.
While the foundations and strategies outlined in this book are strong, I found it less than useful for my own teaching practice. The authors seem to only consider co-teaching and collaboration methods for teachers who aren't spread across multiple buildings. I teach middle school/junior high, and looked eagerly at the potential scheduling examples, because we are currently looking to build a more collaborative model. However, not only did the teaching schedule outlined assume that the teacher in question was in the building full-time (I spend an hour per day in a different building), they assumed that the teacher in question was able to devote him/herself fully to ONE GRADE LEVEL. With that kind of time on my hands, figuring out my co-teaching schedule wouldn't be something I'd need a book to help with.
I realize that my situation isn't ideal for collaboration and co-teaching... but neither is it unique. There are pockets of ELLs at schools across the country large enough to qualify for ESL staffing, but not large enough to implement the grand-scale schedules outlined in the book.
I'm left with a lot of questions. What *IS* best practice for collaboration and co-teaching in more staff-limited situations? If I can only co-teach in one content area per grade, which should I choose? How do I organize students so that their needs are best met in the classes taught by teachers with whom I am unable to directly collaborate on a regularly scheduled basis?
The book guided me to a comprehensive understanding of the "best-case scenario," but ultimately no closer to more effectively collaborating in my (yes, challenging) teaching situation. A section titled "So, Yeah, You Don't Have The Staffing To Do the Whole Shebang" (or, you know, the same idea written more professionally) would have been a useful addition.
October 21, 2018
I read this one over the summer to prepare for a workshop/visit from the author. It contained a lot of great insight and some strategies for helping EL students to feel more confident and successful in the classroom.
July 18, 2017
Some good info but I already knew most.
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