Research on co-teaching is very clear that co-planning is the most important element for successful differentiation. That said, however, co-teachers have also reported difficulty in finding the time needed for true co-planning to occur. In the spirit of collaboration, co-teachers throughout the nation who have participated in trainings through 2 Teach, LLC have agreed to have the lesson plans they created uploaded onto this free database. (Names have been removed to protect confidentiality). In addition, Dr. Wendy Murawski and Ms. Ilona Merrit of California State University, Northridge have collaborated to ensure that lessons posted here demonstrate quality co-planned and differentiated lessons for K-12 teachers. Although these lessons have been reviewed and edited to fit a similar format, 2 Teach does not take credit or blame for their content. We have tried to collect lessons that demonstrate co-teaching, parity, and differentiation, however teachers are as always responsible for making sure lessons address their own particular student learning and behavioral needs. In many instances, the lesson plans here may simply spark an idea or provide you with a new way to teach your own content. Our goal is to help share the wonderful and highly creative lessons that co-teachers come up with daily so that teachers donʼt have to continually re-create the wheel!
We encourage co-teachers to download lessons that may appeal to them, and ask co-teachers to share their own lessons with us. The more lessons we have over a broader array of topics, grades, and content areas, the easier it will be for co-teachers to find something that will save them time and help ensure more creative and differentiated lesson planning.
Please click here to download a copy of the co-teaching lesson planning format. Co-teachers are strongly encouraged to share their own co-planned lessons by emailing them to: Admin@2teachllc.com
