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Co-Teaching: Mathematics Strategies for Integrating General and Special Education Clemmie B. Whatley, PhD, Mercer University / Educational Dynamix, Inc Deshonda Stringer, Ed.D.

Purpose  Engage in strategies that support all learners in a standards-based co-taught classroom  Explore mathematical tasks involving rate, ratio, and proportional reasoning  Provide resources for mathematical task involving equivalent expressions and radical and integer exponents.  Use and evaluate instructional models, e.g. scaffolding, differentiation, concrete-pictorial-abstract, etc.

Six Co-Teaching Approaches Large Group (T T T) 1 Teach/ 1 Observe 1 Teach/ 1 Assist Team Teaching (A + 6) H How (3-1) = (A + 6) (3- o do.. 16 1) = 16 w A=1/2 A=1/2 bh ? bh llll Smaller Group (SPA) Station Parallel Alternative Teaching 4/14/2014 3

Standards for Mathematics Practice

Engage Learning – Vocabulary Strategies  Four Groups  Two groups – develop interactive ways to teach vocabulary associated with proportional reasoning (for example, ratio, scale factor, proportion)  Two groups  One will develop synonym triplets (couple of words) act it out  The other will develop a taxonomy

Accessibility Strategies  Spatial Reasoning  Memory  Attention

Mathematical Task – How strong is a gummy worm?  Two approaches for learning  Implicit Instruction  Explicit Instruction

Summarizer  What pre-requisites would be needed for this task?  What standards did this task address?  How were the Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMPs) addressed in this task?  What key vocabulary was emphasized in this task?  How could you further differentiate this task using processing deficits strategies?

Other Mathematical Tasks  Equivalent expressions  Equal as Balanced  Variables and expressions  Radical and integer exponents  http://www.mathsisfun.com/square-root.html  ..\links to presentation\cube-roots exponents.docx  Other Resources  Posing Cognitively Demanding Tasks to All Students, Mathematics Teaching in Middle School, NCTM, 2013  Teaching Proportionality in Middle Grades Research Summary, Association of Middle Level Education.

Co-Teaching: Mathematics Strategies for Integrating General and Special Education Clemmie B. Whatley, PhD, Mercer University / Educational Dynamix, Inc Deshonda Stringer, Ed.D.