Guest Bio: Katie Nieves is a middle school special education teacher in New Jersey. She is a doctoral candidate in educational technology leadership and a Google Certified Innovator, Trainer, and Educator. She is passionate about designing learning environments that support and empower all learners.

 

Episode Summary: Katie teaches us the basics of co-teaching and co-planning in a virtual setting. Learn what strategies her research tells us work well and how we can execute them for the benefit of our students!

 

Timestamps:

A mini lesson in co-teaching strategies [1:30]

What is Katie currently up to? [4:15]

What Katie wants you to know about co-teaching [5:33]

Parallel Teaching Model [6:58]

Station Teaching Model [7:50]

Platforms responding to co-teachers’ needs [8:45]

Matching task to tools and strategies [9:48]

Tech tools to get the job done well [10:43]

Paraprofessionals and digital access [12:42]

Katie’s best co-teaching models for being online [14:03]

Benefits of parallel teaching for large classes [14:42]

Benefits of Alternate teaching model [15:40]

Katie lets us know it’s okay to take a risk [16:38]

Asynchronous co-teaching?! Yes! [17:13]

Katie’s biggest piece of co-teaching advice [20:10]

The importance of time [22:15]

Want to connect with Katie? [23:40]

 

Resource Links:

Katie’s CEC 2021 Presentation

Co-Teaching Resource

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