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 * In an attempt to keep current with different co-teaching updates, this wiki has been created to help. Here you will find links to different resources online, you will be able to post lesson plans to share with your co-teacher, and also take part in discussions, if you choose to. **
 * Below are some documents and online links to co-teaching and state documents.**

[|This link] takes you to a document that showcases the different types of co-teaching. After each type there is some posted information about how to make it work in your classroom along with a video of the different types of co-teaching.

This document has some co-teaching tips on it.

[|Click here] for a link to an online article about co-teaching at the secondary level.

[|This link] will take you to the Virtual Learning system. Here you can click away to see the state standards in your content area, previous state assessments, and more.

A free download from [|here] can help you convert text to speech. Naturalreaders gives you an opportunity to download software to save to your computer. You can copy and paste different types of text and it will be read to your students.
 * Below you will find two different links for text to speech software.**

Another text-to-speech website can be found [|here]. Spoken Text will save your files for a day free, on the web, password protected. There are no downloads for your computer when you use Spoken Text. Spoken Text has become so popular, it is no longer a free software...I will update again soon when I find something else to work...it might have minimal applications, however.

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 * Here are the directions for uploading a document to the wiki.

**Co-planning...making it work** Co-planning is one of those issues that doesn't seem to have an easy answer, yet many questions often come up. What is the best way to plan for a co-taught lesson? Have a plan for planning and try to stick with it the best you can. Co-teaching with four+ teachers is definitely a difficult task to tackle. Hopefully some of the suggestions below may help answer some of your questions. 1. Create a time and day for planning and stick to it. 2. The general education teacher provides the objectives for the week 3. The special education teacher provides different ways to teach the concept, anticipates modifications for special education students, and helps plan the input and guided practice in the lesson. 4. It may help to assign roles to each other for preparation (one person lead with the anticipatory set, one person teaches the input etc.) 5. Discuss the type of co-teaching that will be used based on the lesson objective for that day. 6. If you tend to get off topic, try to give yourselves 5 minutes at the beginning of your meeting to talk about issues that are not related to work. 7. Maximize the time you do have. You could use this wiki to share lessons with each other...it can be a place to share ideas about how you are going to teach your lessons.

** Below are some sample documents you can use for planning. The templates are saved according to the type of co-teaching you may use. If you have any other suggestions or documents you use, please add them. **