Developed and tested by the author in a diverse Colorado school district, this proven co-teaching model will help educators and multilingual learner specialists work collaboratively to support multilingual learners and promote their academic achievement and English language proficiency at the same time. You’ll get immediately useful guidance focused on these key goals: meaningful access to grade-level content for multilingual learners, English proficiency through content instruction, and job-embedded co-teaching professional learning opportunities. Tips, tools, examples, and resources—including engaging online videos and an extensive rubric that helps you evaluate the quality of your co-teaching program and practices—help you take the foundational information in this book and transform it into action in your own school or district.
A timely and innovative guide for co-teachers, coaches, teacher leaders, and school and district administrators, this book helps co-teachers develop strong partnerships and unlock equitable, inclusive learning opportunities for multilingual learners.
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While other books talk about the conditions and principles of co-teaching, this one narrates how a school district labored to create these conditions from scratch. The rubric and elegant co-teaching models were exactly what a busy teacher needs: tools and no-fuss models ready to use tomorrow.