Benette Yates

June 12, 2021

Ways to Implement Cooperative Learning

1. List the six ways to implement cooperative learning with a brief definition of each.

2. One Teach, One Observe is a co-teaching strategy where one teacher presents the

instruction to the whole class while the second teacher rotates to gather observational

information on students.

3. One Teach, One Support is a co-teaching method where one teacher leads the

instructional activity while the second teacher assists students with their work.

4. Station Teaching, the lesson is divided into two parts and the students into groups. One

teacher presents one part of the lesson in a station while the second teacher provides the

different part of the lesson. Each group of students rotates in each station.

5. Parallel Teaching. Each teacher instructs half the students. The two teachers

communicate and present the same instructional material using the same strategy.

6. Alternative Teaching provides students with different method approaches to learning the

same information.

7. Team Teaching a co-teaching approach where the two teachers share the instructional

activity equally.

2. Explain why a teacher would use each method. Do some methods have more of a benefit than

others depending on the situation? Explain.

1. One Teach, One Observe would be a useful method to gather data on a specific student or

students on how well they respond and understand the lessons in the class. The roles of

the teachers can be switched depending on the topic or interests of the teachers. This
 strategy is used to gather data on a student to find out the best practices a teacher to use to

make sure the student is learning. Data collected is about behaviors and how often they

are on and off task. This strategy helps teacher understand differences in student learning

and when a teacher needs a specific information about their own teaching method.

Possible data to collect would be academic performance, behavioral and social skills

while inside the classroom. ABC data is often used as their data collection.

2. One Teach, One Support would be useful if two teachers co-teaching take turns to lead

and provide aid to the students. This strategy offers the lead teacher to deliver the content

of the lesson without interruption. The assisting teacher ensures that students are on task

and engaged.  The roles of the teacher can be switched. The mentor teacher can just

teach. The co-teacher assists by monitoring student work, addressing behavior issues and

answering student questions. Support teacher can distribute materials or ask the lead

teacher to clarify confusing concepts. Students with behavior problems are helped to be

more on task. Students that are more engaged are asked to think more through deeper

engagement. This strategy works when closely monitoring students learning during

lessons. Teachers would also use this method when one teacher has more experience in a

content area and when co-teachers have not had enough time to plan to lead instructions.

3. Station Teaching requires planning by co-teachers. Teachers can use stations to introduce

new content of a lesson. This approach is a chance for two teachers to work together and

provide some individualized attention to smaller groups of several students while

covering several pieces of the curriculum. The nice thing about working with stations

teachers can modify their curriculum to match their students need. The materials are

broken into smaller pieces and can be learned in a specific time. Station Teaching reduces
 student to teacher ratio, and it helps to increase student participation and monitor students

learning. This is a highly engaging instructional format and teachers may need to control

voice level inside the classroom. It is encouraged to use this strategy frequently inside the

classroom. An example teaching is teaching the concept of money.  One teacher leads a

station where the students play a money math game, while the other teacher runs a

pretend store where the students buy items and make change.

4. Teacher should use this strategy more frequently to allow students for maximum and

learning participation. Parallel teaching is a great strategy to use when teachers want to

focus on deeper instruction/deeper leaning because of the small group. Teachers can

focus on the details and catch kids before they fall out the bottom.

5. Alternative Differentiated Teaching can be used for enrichment, remediation, assessment,

or pre-teaching and for alternative methods of providing lesson input. Teacher can

reteach/ and or enrich the student’s needs, do behavior modification, and give the

students the specific support they need to personalize their instruction. An example, if a

student is struggling with math and the 1st teacher was initially the one to teach the

concept and he/she noticed the student is struggling in that area. The first teacher might

have to teach the struggling student in a small group, or a second teacher might have to

take the small group to teach different method of learning the concept to provide a

different way of looking at things. This strategy is a great method to use with co-teaching

to provide support to gaps of student learning - it enriches the student.

6. Team Teaching. In this approach both teachers are often in front of the classroom sharing

their responsibilities of lead instruction. An example of this, a teacher who expects their

students to collaborate can model what it looks like to work together with another teacher
 by having a second teacher inside the class. Another example when both co-teachers have

different and active roles in a lesson. One teacher leads the discussion, the other teacher

records the notes. When a teacher notice student is not understanding the concept, the

other teacher can then ask students to go to the side and reteach the lesson they are

confused about. Doing it this way helps the student have deeper understanding of concept

right then. This approach is a great way to teach students about collaboration and should

be used occasionally.  

3. Do you anticipate a few of this method being your “go to” preferred ways to teach kids with

special needs? Why or why not?

The methods that I would use to kids with special needs are One Teach, One Observe method,

One Teach, One Support, Parallel Teaching and Station Teaching. Often students enter the

classroom not knowing if one needs special accommodations. Using the teaching strategies that I

chose will help me to tailor my lesson according to the students need. Cooperative teaching is

very helpful when working with special need students. The teachers need all the type of support

they can to help special need student with their learning. Teaching Stations can be modified

according to students’ abilities and help with the teacher to student ratio.