The purpose of this course is to provide educators with a strong foundation for planning, implementing, and maintaining successful co-teaching programs. Because today’s classrooms include a student population with different learning styles, cultural differences, and educational needs, co-teaching has become a more common practice.
By developing a clear definition of co-teaching, examining critical components of co-teaching models, and evaluating current co-teaching programs, this course will explore both the conceptual and operational aspects of this approach to delivering instruction. Based on current research in the field of education, this course examines the most commonly accepted co-teaching practices between general and special education teachers on the elementary, middle, and high school levels.
Mercy University EDUT 527
The required text for this course is Co-Teaching that Works: Structures and Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning, Second Edition, by Anne M. Beninghof.
ISBN: 978-1119653325
Graduate participants earn 3 semester hours of graduate credit and will receive a transcript from one of our partner institutions below. Professional development participants will receive a certificate of completion for 45 hours of professional developments credit for face-to-face classes and 60 hours of professional development credit for online classes.
Session/Module 1: Co-Teaching Defined
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Session/Module 2: Establishing a Rationale for Co-Teaching a it Relates to Research and Legislation
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Session/Module 3: Developing Effective Partnerships
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Session/Module 4: Essential Components of a Co-Teaching Relationship
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Session/Module 5: Co-Teaching Modules
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Session/Module 6: Working with Support Personnel: The Paraprofessionals as Part of the Co-Teaching Team
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Session/Module 7: Response to Intervention (RtI)
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Session/Module 8: The Use of Differentiated Instruction in the Co-Teaching Classroom
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Session/Module 9: Assessing Co-Teaching Programs
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Session/Module 10: Making Co-Teaching Work: The Issue of Common Planning Time
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Our Partners are well-established regionally and nationally accredited colleges and universities, recognized for academic excellence and their commitment to teachers.
Online 3-graduate credit courses are 13 weeks in length.
On-site weekend courses are held Friday evening from 6:00pm-9:00pm and Saturday/Sunday, 8:30am-5:30pm.
Weekday courses are Monday-Friday from 8:00am- 6:00pm.
It is the responsibility of the student to check with their state, county, district, or school to ensure that all requirements are being met by the course you're taking.
Check the Partner Universities page for specific university information as well as course numbers which are specific to the university partner.
Students are required to purchase their own textbook, the information for which can be found here. If no book is required it will be specified on the list. We have copies of many of the textbooks should you wish to purchase directly from TEI.
Professional development (PD) participants receive a certificate of completion from TEI for 45 hours of PD credit for face to face classes and 60 hours of PD credit for online classes. These certificates are mailed within one week of the end of the class and reflect the course title, dates of attendance, and credit hour information.