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**Co-Teaching & Differentiated Instruction** =As an educator, I enjoy co-teaching and feel that it is important to differentiate instruction as much as possible!=

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Because I teach in an inclusion classroom, I have a wide-variety of students to where using different teaching strategies help the students to be more effective in class. Co-teaching and differentiated instruction also allows students to feel more comfortable in the classroom.

= Benefits of Co-Teaching: =
 * 1) The variety and quality of lessons increase as the result of the collaboration and ideas and materials between teachers.
 * 2) Special Teacher can gain a better understanding of what is expected in the classroom by seeing the children in the classroom setting.
 * 3) By staying in the classroom, children do not miss whole-class instruction and appreciate being able to stay with their peers.
 * 4) Special instruction can provide incidental benefits to all learners.
 * 5) Parents usually prefer their children stay in the classroom.
 * 6) Children experience two adults working cooperativley and learning from one another.
 * 7) More opportunity for all abliity levels to interact in a variety of learning situations.

**Differentiated Instruction is:**
 * 1) proactive
 * 2) more qualitative than quanitative
 * 3) providing multiple approaches
 * 4) content, process and product (see below)
 * 5) student-centered
 * 6) a blend of whole class, group, and individual instruction
 * 7) <span style="color: #220202; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">natural, continuous learning for both the student and the teacher

<span style="color: #220202; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">CONTENT: ** refers to the concepts, principles, and skills that teachers want students to learn.

<span style="color: #220202; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">**PROCESS:** refers to the activities that help students make sense of the ideas being taught.

<span style="color: #220202; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**PRODUCT:** refers to the culminating projects that allow students to demonstrate and extend what they have learned.

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">As an educator how do you feel about co-teaching and differentiation?

<span style="color: #220202; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Click on **__DISSCUSSION__** at the top of the page to enter your thoughts!

Gregory, Gayle H.; Chapman, Carolyn., Differentiated Instructional Strategies:One Size Doesn't Fit All. Corwin Press, California. 2007. Tomlinson, Carol Ann. The Differentiated Classroom. Pearson, Merrill Prentice Hall, Ohio. 1999. ||  ||
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