The Importance of Collaboration

Collaborative Teaching: Special Education for Inclusive Classrooms
This site provides a downloadable book, " Collaborative Teaching: Special Education for Inclusive Classrooms." The chapters included are: the change from isolation to collaboration, legal issues of interest in collaborative teaching, collaborative teaching, partnerships with parents, curricular and instructional patterns in regular classrooms, accommodations strategies, elementary programming, secondary programming, management of health issues in regular classrooms, and management of special equipment and adaptive devices.



Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts: Co-Teaching Booklet
This site is for Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts which provides leadership to Texas educators through its partnership with the Texas Education Agency. This site provides a downloadable co-teaching booklet. The purpose of this booklet is to provide strategies to help general and special education teachers, speech and language pathologists, school counselors, paraprofessionals, and administrators (e.g., principals, special education coordinators) plan for and implement co-teaching during reading instruction in classrooms where a variety of learners are represented, including students with disabilities.

www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/tec_coteaching.html
This website provides suggestions for successful co-teaching.