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Two High School Teachers May Be Better Than One | toteachornototeach

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Two High School Teachers May Be Better Than One

Two High School Teachers May Be Better Than One

By Kelsey Sheehy
Coteaching can help educators address a variety 
of learning levels in one high school classroom.
Two heads are better than one, or so the saying goes. But in a high school classroom, are two teachers better than one?
“It’s all in how you implement it,” says Susan Fitzell, an educational consultant. “It doesn’t work if you just have two bodies in the room.”
To be effective, both teachers need to be interacting with students, breaking them into small groups, and teaching to the needs of individual students, says Fitzell, a former special education teacher who began coteaching at Londonderry Senior High School in New Hampshire in 1993 and now coaches other educators on how to coteach.
While Fitzell says she’s seen an increase in schools pairing two general education instructors in one classroom