Responsible Co-Teaching: Making it Work!
Ignoring Importance of Shared Understanding

Assuming any special education child in general education setting requires a special educator
Failing to clarify roles and responsibilities

Allowing staff preferences to drive co-teaching
Neglecting development of co-teacher knowledge and skills
Failing to provide a continum of services

Failing to implment multiple co-teach delivery models

Failing to address the importance of planning
Ineffective Scheduling Practices

Failure to gather outcomes data
Practices to Avoid
Create or maintain
 an inclusive school


"Shared visions emerge from
personal visions. This is how they
derive their energy and how they foster
commitment...If people don't have their own 
vision, all they can do is 'sign up'for 
someone else's. The result is compliance
never commitment"
Peter Senge 
The Fifth Discipline
Schools are perfectly designed to get
the results they are getting now. If schools
want different results, they must measure and
then change their processes to create the results
they really want
Victoria L. Bernhardt, Education for the Future
Neglecting development of both
co-teachers knowledge and skills
Ineffective Scheduling
Practices
Failing to provide planning time