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Today, I am honored to interview Anne Beninghof Twitter. Anne is an expert at coteaching and consults with districts about it.

In this episode, we talk about the following:

• What is coteaching?
• How little things become problematic
• Paraprofessionals in the classroom
• Resources on her web site
• How to introduce teachers to the idea of coteaching
• Choosing partners
• Youtube Channel
• Needs for teachers working together: Flexible personalities, common planning time, common philosophies about teaching and behavior management.
• Expectation about actually using planning time.
• Try to avoid a divorce in the coteaching relationship
• Co teachers Need a coach.
• Specific structures and procedures help coteaching partnership
• Tap into teachers’ unique skill sets
• One-minute formative assessments
• 65% of class time spent in something other than whole group
• Last couple minutes specialist takes lead
• Parallel grouping
• Professional learning & communication is a constant
• 9 models of coteaching.
• Duet model
• Parallel model
• Lead and support model
• Other 7 models are ingredients
• Don’t let students play one teacher against another
• Ratios: no more than 30% of students on IEPs
• Plan approach for talking to parents about coteaching model.

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