With a Strong Co-Teaching Strategy
Inclusion. Co-Teaching. Collaboration.
Collaboration occurs when general and special-education teachers work together to instruct and provide student support to a range of abilities, including students requiring support services, in the general education classroom. Co-teaching is based on some mutual and some differing strengths of the teachers. A partnership cannot be sustained unless each professional makes a valuable contribution.
2Teach Consulting provides campus support K-12 for Inclusion and Co-Teaching Professional development.
Professional Development and Training
2Teach Consulting provides professional development and training for general and special education teachers so they have clear expectations of roles and responsibilities to provide specialized support in the classroom. Putting systems in place to determine the effectiveness of your collaborative program is key to maximizing staff.
Tailored Solution for Your Teaching Environment
It starts with identifying the needs and goals of your administration, faculty and staff. When these are identified, a roadmap on how to start your co-teaching partnerships can be developed and implemented. This includes understanding the personal strengths of the teaching staff and providing targeted training to strengthen partnerships.
Co-Teaching Partnerships and Collaboration Development
2Teach Consulting can provide plans that facilitate teacher collaboration with the ultimate goal of building a collaborative culture among all key personnel on your staff.
All children do not have the same needs in the classroom.
The 2>1 Teaching Approach method was developed by 2Teach Consulting and provides guidance for both teacher development and administration processes to successfully implement a collaborative teaching program.
All children do not have the same needs in the classroom. It is imperative that their teachers understand and facilitate a learning environment where every child thrives- not just survives. With the 2>1 Teaching Approach teachers work together to provide a nurturing and positive learning environment for each and every child.
Not sure how to integrate this method into your existing structure? Contact us to avoid the common pitfalls of co-teaching.
What 2Teaching Consulting can do for you
- Provide technical assistance to increase knowledge of collaborative teacher’s roles and responsibilities
- Facilitate teacher collaboration to utilize personnel more efficiently
- Provide classroom observations and debrief resulting in coaching teachers to increase teacher and student engagement, promote on-task student behavior, and embed strategies to meet the needs of all students
- Establish a positive, academic learning climate
- Provide quality indicators for a successful inclusive campus
- Coach co-teachers (all levels) in roles and responsibilities, teaching approaches, embedding instructional strategies, grouping of students, classroom management, planning time
- Provide feedback to administration regarding the co-teaching classrooms/program and establish teacher expectations within collaborative classes
- Facilitate meetings of teachers to increase the effectiveness of partnership
- Assist planning meetings with teachers to facilitate and model collaboration
- Determine effectiveness of a collaborative program
- Provide instructional strategies to implement in lessons
About Merideth
Owner, 2Teach Consulting
Merideth Jones has over 20 years experience in program implementation in educational systems. After receiving both her Bachelor of Science and her Master in Education, she worked in secondary schools wearing the “many hats” of a special educator but always foremost as a co-teacher. She was later employed with Region XIII Education Service Center where she implemented and supported inclusion programs, defining and executing the processes that supported the teachers, the administration, and students. In 2001, she furthered her position as an inclusion specialist as a consultant for Stetson & Associates, Inc. There, she implemented district-wide/campus-focused assistance and training in the areas of collaborative teaming, differentiated instruction, inclusion, co-teaching, and research-based effective practices.
In 2004, she created 2Teach Consulting where she is a Private Consultant for Inclusion Implementation. She continues to bring her expertise and experience to school districts to help them understand, plan, and execute inclusion and collaborative teaching programs. She both developed and teaches her methodology, The 2>1 Teaching Approach, to school districts that need guidance for both teacher development and administration processes to successfully implement a collaborative teaching program that benefits the student learning demographics.
Her formal education includes: Bachelor of Science in Education, Baylor University, May 1996 (Speech Pathology- Major, Education-Minor); Master of Education, Southwest Texas State University, August 1997 (Special Education-Major, Elementary Education-Minor)