Co-Teaching as Best Practice in
Student Teaching
Parallel
Teaching
Strategy
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LOOK FOR: The instruction and strategies used in both groups
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In this approach, each teacher instructs half the students. The two teachers are addressing the same instructional material using the same teaching strategies.
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• JSU Faculty: Watch either the elementary example or the secondary example
• Elementary: Ms. Swindle and Ms Trued are both teaching about warm fronts, cold fronts, and stationary fronts. Each is teaching the same material to a small group of students.
They are each using the same strategy for teaching the concept. Watch Video .
• Secondary: Mrs. Cooper and Mr. Green are teaching about plate tectonics. They are using the exact same method to teach the students. Watch Video . – NOTE: Look at this video again. This appears to be alternate teaching instead of parallel teaching !
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