UMTSS Conference

Co-teaching is a potentially highly-effective means of providing students with disabilities with high-quality mathematics instruction (Utah State Office of Education, 2011). During this session participants will have the opportunity to learn from the experiences of two first-year mathematics co-teachers and their instructional coach. As a team, these two teachers successfully implemented multiple effective co-teaching models. While co-teaching is considered an effective means of providing core content instruction to general education and special education students alike, the “one-teach, one assist” model dominates, even though it is considered the least effective co-teaching model. However, a variety of additional, and more effective models, such as Station Teaching, Teaming, and Parallel Teaching are available to teachers (Friend & Friedlander, 2016). In this session, participants will have an opportunity to learn how and when these teachers made use of these co-teaching models in an average to large secondary mathematics class.