Collaboration Analysis

While reading “Using Collaboration, Co-Teaching, and Question Answer Relationships to Enhance Content Area Literacy” by Nicole Fenty, I had a chance to learn about some strategies that can be used while co-teaching with a Special Education teachers and a general education teacher. Collaboration is the key to success in a general education setting where there are students who have an IEP because the teachers need to be on the same page of what the students need to learn while Co-Teaching. It is important that each teacher shares the responsibility of teaching the students. This sharing of responsibility allows for teachers to become more knowledgeable in their subjects which, allows them to teach the areas they know the best. Being knowledgeable …show more content…
The main strategy that was talked about was QAR which are Question Answer Relationships and this is a strategy can enhance reading comprehension skills. During QAR students are able to show off their abilities to infer and determine what the most important points are of a story. There are “ special and general education teachers who planned instruction together were more likely to equally share classroom instructional duties than those who did not engage in collaborative planning.” (Fenty) This collaboration is working in schools and it can be seen in classrooms. While reading this article, I already knew a bit about QAR from previous classes but, we never dove into why we should be using this strategy or even how to improve QAR. One of the tips that were given in this article was that collaboration is linked to student success due to the specialized knowledge of co-teachers. I think it is so important to have the specialized knowledge. I remember in Middle school, I could tell when a teacher didn’t know what they were talking about and in my reading class in seventh grade we had a co-teacher situation and I knew that when we were doing reading comprehension one of the co-teachers knew everything about how to teach it compared to the other teacher who was better at teaching