Teachers working together improving learning outcomes in the inclusive classroom- practical strategies and examples By Kelly Jean Sullivan

 

Teachers working together improving learning outcomes in the inclusive classroom- practical strategies and examples

 

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     Teacher collaboration between the general teacher and the special education teacher is needed more than ever in the schools. Teacher collaborating is a way that the teachers agreeably share and interact in shared decisions so that it a unit and they work for the common goal.  The teacher has seven practical options to use to collect data.  These are assessment strategies that are used to support and document improved outcomes for the students. 

     Teachers need to collaborate on data collection.  The methods that the teacher can use to collaborate are co teaching peer teaching collaboration consultation and collaborative problem solving.

     Teachers cannot just depend on the standardized test outcomes because they do not I repeat do not reflect the students’ progress and achievement always.  The teacher needs to be a team player and collaborate and this will in turn assist in academic and social improvements especially with students with disabilities.

     All students need to have progress monitoring the students with disabilities who have content area defines are sometimes limited to access to general curriculum.  This is where the teacher needs to have a good toolkit and have methods to use so that monitoring the effectiveness of instructional and progress monitoring can track accurately

·         Teacher notes or anecdotal recording –

teacher writes notes in a notebook or on stick ums in narrative way during a specific period of time this seems to be the easiest way for the teacher to collect data especially as art teacher on the move.  These are written as observations.

·         Student work samples and permanent product record-using simple scores student worksheets and observing patterns.  This also seems doable since all day the teacher can easily have a file set up and simply slip in the forms of a child to the folder with name on it.

·         Event recording /frequency- oral exams when writing difficult 1-10 data sheet

·         Interval recording /momentary time sample-daily data sheet with monetary reward on task students

·         Duration recording- taking data doesn’t disrupt teaching using a timer

·         Latency recording-data collecting sheets graphs used to collaborate in order to make good instructional decisions

     Teachers who use the collaborative process will see a benefit for their students.

 It is essential that the teacher pick data collecting methods that do not disturb the flow of teaching but collect good data. So that the students improve their learning.  A good strategies is for the teacher to have a strong toolkit ready for a variety of assessments.

Key words 

Collaborating

Anecdotal

Frequency

Latency

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