Improving my understanding of Collaboration and Co-Teaching Part 5

 WHAT?

I made time to gather some data on the different co-teaching strategies that we have used in our class. It took longer than I expected to go through the Weekly Plan, Literacy/Reading and Maths plans and collate the hours that we have used in Term 1. I used the different strategies to align the time we used. 

Once I had recorded the when and what - I calculated the approximate hours that were used in the different strategies. I’m not totally convinced that I have used the correct formula to calculate this but there isn’t one that I could easily use without destroying our planning templates. Once I had put the percentages of time to the strategies, I could see the definite trends towards our all one-cell practices - small groups or splitting the larger class into 2 groups. 

Data

Using the Data Driven Dialogue template that Michael gave us for the work Britt and I were working with our team. This template asks questions, headings and sets up the facts to create next steps.

Analyse

SO WHAT?

 

Using the Data Driven Dialogue template, I could easily analyse my data and forge some next steps for my co teachers. We need to use the combination of larger group teaching to benefit all our learners and I don’t believe are optimizing its potential. The research for co-teaching is to make the most of all teaching strategies not just using small groups instead of the larger group.

I would like to see the breakdown of the other collaborative spaces and how they are sharing out the different teaching strategies. It would be interesting to see if there are trends for the older children as compared to our Year 3s and 4s.

NOW WHAT?

 

I would like to see more deliberate planning for the different strategies, what this looks like I am not too sure. Possibly our planning needs to have the symbols eg LGTT - Large Group Team Teaching. Something to discuss with my other teachers when we meet.

Also I need to investigate the different ratios that the other collaborative teams have, using LG verse SG. I wonder what the trends are. The Data Driven Dialogue template may help define this somewhat.

“Strong co-teachers solve problems together. In fact, that is the best part of co-teaching; you're never in it alone!”

• Marisa Kaplan