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ERIC Number: EJ1030993
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 6
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1544-6751
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A Co-Teaching Model: Committed Professionals, High Expectations, and the Inclusive Classroom
Lindeman, Karen Wise; Magiera, Kathleen
Odyssey: New Directions in Deaf Education, v15 p40-45 2014
This article relates the story of a first grade teacher and a child who was the only deaf student in the entire school. Because he had no one who could communicate with him--not teachers, not students, no one, this situation tugged at the hearts of a committed team of professionals. A teacher of the deaf, a first grade general education teacher, a speech-language pathologist, an occupational therapist, and an interpreter, none of whom had worked with a deaf student before or co taught, began to work collaboratively to provide services. As professionals they looked back on the experience as one of their most rewarding--and decided to take a closer look and reflect on that year to improve their own practices and hopefully help others. Here they explore why this collaborative model worked and how a group of professionals from different disciplines, each with different goals for the student and with no experience working with a deaf child with a cochlear implant, came together to make Jeffery's year a success. Further, they wanted to see if they could use this experience to develop a co-teaching model to support other students with cochlear implants in a general education classroom. In retrospect they also ask one another, "What did we do just right?"
Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center. Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue NE, KS 3600, Washington, DC 20002. Tel: 800-526-9105; Tel: 202-651-5340; Fax: 202-651-5708; e-mail: odyssey@gallaudet.edu; Web site: http://clerccenter.gallaudet.edu
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Grade 1
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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