Collaborative Teaching in Secondary Schools: Making the Co-Teaching Marriage Work! - Paperback

by Wendy Murawski (Author)

"This is like the ′Everything You Wanted to Know About Co-Teaching′ book that answers questions you did not even know to ask! Murawski′s wit, enthusiasm, and expertise are engaging and informative throughout. From the details of starting a co-teaching relationship to the fine art of sustaining the co-teaching union, this book has something for everyone."
--Peggy King-Sears, Professor of Special Education
George Mason University

Create a successful partnership that provides the ultimate learning environment for every student!

Many districts across the nation are incorporating co-teaching into their schools in order to create the best learning environment for all students. This practical, easy-to-use resource offers administrators and teachers a wealth of strategies and tools for setting up, conducting, and maintaining a successful co-teaching relationship that addresses the diverse needs in today′s inclusive classrooms.

Offered in a lighthearted, humorous manner that compares the co-teaching relationship to a marriage, this comprehensive guide provides substantive, field-tested differentiation and application strategies strongly supported by research and years of expert, hands-on experience. Numerous replicable forms, worksheets, checklists, and examples are included as well as helpful references, Web sites, co-teaching scenarios and case studies, and much more. Each chapter is packed with straightforward ideas for:

• Dealing with difficult content
• Mastering scheduling challenges and personality conflicts
• Setting roles and responsibilities
• Various approaches for co-instruction
• Co-planning and co-assessement

This resource is ideal for helping schools improve current programs or as a reference for teachers who have no experience with co-teaching and are ready to initiate a new relationship.

Author Biography

Dr. Wendy Murawski is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator at California State University, Northridge in the Department of Special Education. She is an experienced co-teacher (for K-12 and university, general and special education) and an accomplished presenter. She is often requested to work with state departments, districts & schools, keynote at conferences, and provide numerous training seminars. Wendy holds a Masters.degree in Special Education, an Ed.S. in Educational Administration, and a Ph.D. in Special Education with an emphasis in Research, Collaboration and Co-teaching.. She has won prestigious awards, to include the Dissertation Award from the Division of Learning Disabilities, a Publication Award from the Division of Research for the Council for Exceptional Children, and she was the 2004 California Teacher Educator of the Year. Wendy′s research in the area of co-teaching has been widely disseminated through her numerous publications. Wendy is the author of Co-Teaching in the Inclusive Classroom: Working Together to Help ALL Your Students Find Success, an extensive resource handbook on co-teaching, as well as the co-creator of the CTSS (Co-teach Solutions System) software. Wendy is a dynamic speaker who utilizes humor, personal experience and research-based methods in her seminars while keeping them in the context of practical, ready-to-use strategies for general and special educators to implement in their inclusive classrooms. Currently, Wendy lives in southern California with her husband, son, cat, and a really mean fish.