Irish Farley, online Ed.D. student in EPOL, recently co-authored an article published in TESOL Connections monthly e-newsletter titled "How to Make Coteaching Work Virtually: Know Your People".
Are you co-teaching a course or classes within a course? As long-time educators, Irish and her colleague Shana have worked in a variety of collaborative settings using all the methods, models, and configurations. But nothing prepared them for what we've all been faced with in 2020: online school. Coteaching is a powerful intervention for students, especially English language learners (Scruggs et al., 2007; Dove & Honigsfeld, 2018), so they knew they needed to figure out a way to continue our collaborative teaching even while being scattered around the world. Since their school went online in February 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, they have learned some things that have made coteaching work.
Read the full article here...
Irish Farley has been teaching since 2000. She taught special education in Denver Public Schools and special education and English language acquisition internationally. For the last five years, she has taught at the International School of Tianjin in Tianjin, China.
