Co-Teaching That Works: Structures and Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning 2nd Edition

Good book

This book is great for co-teachers to be able to take and apply to their partnership immediately. Practical and thoughtful scenarios and methods for implementation co-teaching.

One of the most beneficial aspects of this amazing co-teaching book is that Anne Beninghof includes a wide variety of classroom examples. This allowed me to gain a greater understanding of the different co-teaching models and helped me to bridge the examples in the book to how my school functions. This book will continue to be a valuable resource to me as we delve deeper into co-teaching.

This is another technical education manual that I picked up for some professional development – something I do once or twice a year. I think much of what is covered here really places emphasis on Admin’s role in needing to make the time needed to ensure effective use of multiple educators in the same classroom, be it for SPED or ELL or SDI (Specially Designed Instruction – per student) reasons. But ultimately despite all of the options and great suggestions throughout, it is up to admin and upper admin to make decisions that shift the school culture to prioritizing these effective strategies. Time, money, and staffing are the big things that stand in the way – or at least it might also be important to mention that it is often top-down management / micromanagement that undermines the ability to do this where school and education structures should be bottom-up.One of the more interesting and distracting parts of this book have little to do with the well-researched and applied information that is organized so that any school with a desire to change can do it no matter the circumstances, BUT the strange culinary metaphors in the opening chapters that appeared to drop off (or at least become inconsistently attached) by the fourth or fifth chapter. It was confusing and weird, but then by the time the book went on I kinda missed it as it made some dry topics a little more.... palatable?Anyway, only for educators and really I think most upper admin and direct admin need to read this, implement it, and then have educators read it. Otherwise, it is useless and classroom educators just wish it was something they could do.