Co-Teaching Lesson Plan

General Education Teacher: Mr. Mellovitz

Special Education Teacher: Ms. Park
Grade Level: 8
Subject Area: Math
Content Area Standard: Envision 2-6: Find unit rate
Measurable Goal for Lesson: Students will meet objectives of: 1. Represent data in tables and graphs 2. Find unit
rate from a graph by meeting 85% accuracy on teacher-made questions.
Essential Questions:
-What are examples of real-life proportions?
-How are tables and graphs related? (What do they represent and how?)
-How is finding unit rate applicable to real-world problems?
Key Vocabulary: per, unit rate, proportional, variable
Pre-Assessment: Collected exit tickets from days prior, data observation from past two lessons, reviewed for
accuracy, prior knowledge, and misconceptions.
Materials Needed: notes, writing utensil, powerpoint, chart paper

Lesson

Co-teaching
Approach

Time

General Education
Teacher

Special Education
Teacher

15
minutes
- Do
Now
Review,
Intro/
Model

Mellovitz reviews Do Now

and Model
-Asks for student volunteers
to lead the Do Now

Monitor

-Calls student volunteers to

complete #1-3 from Do Now,
Mellovitz helps volunteers at
the whiteboard

-Assist students in
checking their work on
whiteboard and correcting
their notes, monitoring
behavior and redirecting
off-task behavior

(can select more

than one)

Beginning:
(may include:
Opening;
Warm Up;
Review;
Anticipatory
Set)

X One Teach,
One Support
Parallel
Alternative
Station
Team

Considerations (may
include adaptations,
differentiation,
accommodation, or
student- specific needs).
-

-Monitor classroom to
track Do Now
completion/give credit,
update status of on-task
class tracker

-Goes over #4, from most

recent lesson

-Tracks student
participation on class
clipboard, answer
individual questions,
corrects mistakes (ask
aloud common
misconception for class
benefit)

-Introduces Model portion

(direction instruction)
Model
Jamal drove to
his grandmas
house for
Thanksgiving.
The table below
shows the
relationship
between the
number of hours
Jamal travelled

-support teacher by
chunking material out loud
if students look confused
-refer students to anchor
chart
-repeat essential
information
-reiterate vocab
terminology
-check for on-task notetaking

Guided Notes given

to all students
(no modified notes
because all students
can perform
calculations with
calculator, and
setting up problems
will be assisted with
support and anchor
chart
Calculators
available to all
students
Anchor Chart with
exemplar model
and steps hung in
front of room