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Source: http://essentialeducator.org/?p=5205

How will the model facilitate effective collaboration (include roles, relationships, and responsibilities)? The anticipated model of collaboration is the alternative teaching model and is circled in this document:



YouTube on Alternative Teaching Model produced by the Georgia Department of Education Alternative Teaching YouTube

Teacher Gloria (4th grade teacher) and Teacher Erin (ELL) will use the alternative teaching model (visually pictured in download) for co-teaching because Teacher Erin will not be able to be in the classroom every day all day long. The model will facilitate instruction and learning because In talking to Teacher Erin (personal communication, July 2, ,2012) (please see interview), she eventually wants to team teach; however, she does not think that team teaching is a reasonable expectation initially. In the alternative teaching model Teacher Erin will be able to pull small groups for the following:
 * **Pre-teaching:** She can pre-teach vocabulary for specific lessons. The two teachers will be able to plan on how and when Teacher Erin will be able to pre-teach vocabulary. She will also pre-teach vocabulary to students other than ELL children if they need it. Also, there will be times when the ELL children already know the vocabulary and other children do not, so she will be available for pre-teaching vocabulary to all children.
 * **Small groups**: Teacher Erin anticipates working with small groups in a way similar to the teacher in the YouTube on hyperlinked to this page. She will be able to implement different strategies for different groups of children, which will include both ELL children and other children.
 * **Enrichment:** Teacher Erin will provide additional resources for all the children in the classroom, not just the ELL children. Just because children are native speakers of English, does not mean that they always come to school with a rich background in a specific topic areas. Teacher Erin anticipates that the need for enrichment will vary with the topic being covered in the classroom.
 * **Interest groups**: When the children are working on themes that have different topics, Teacher Erin will be able to work with specific topics and integrate both [|music and art], which are areas in which she has expertise.
 * **Special projects:** When Teacher Erin and Teacher Gloria collaborate, they anticipate looking at the needs of their children and the curriculum. In their long range planning, they will target special projects that will appeal to small groups of children. In the long-run, they hope to have a culminating project that will showcase the specific skills of the learners.
 * **Make-up work**: Both teachers will work with the make-up work that their students have. However, they will collaborate on what the make-up work needs to look like.
 * **Assessments**: Because children are absent, have different needs, and learn at different rates, Teacher Erin and Teacher Gloria will collaborate on at least two forms of common assessments that will reflect the instruction. They plan on assessing the same way that they instructed.
 * **Strategies**: Even though Teacher Erin know specific strategies that will work for academic success for English language learners, Teacher Gloria also has many strategies in place that work for special needs children. Together, they plan on collaborating about specific strategies for specific students as well as whole class instruction, at the beginning of each unit. Teacher Erin anticipates that they will learn from each other.
 * Responsibilities:**
 * **Grades**: Teacher Gloria will be responsible for entering the grades because the technology system only allows one teacher to enter the students' grades. However, Teacher Gloria and Teacher Erin will collaborate on grades, and they will come to a mutual decision about the grade.
 * **Behavior:** The two teachers share a common philosophy about behavior, so they will equally implement behavioral standards.
 * **Communication**: Teacher Erin speaks Spanish and will speak with the Spanish-speaking families only because of this communication skill. She will also communicate with other families.