Co-Teaching Lesson Planning Kit
A shared planning framework aligned to evidence-based co-teaching models.
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A co-teaching lesson plan is not two individual lesson plans stapled together.
The most common failure in co-teaching is parallel planning. Two teachers plan their parts separately, show up, and hope the lesson holds together. It rarely does. Effective co-teaching requires shared planning where both teachers understand the learning goal, the role distribution, the assessment integration, and the reflection prompts that drive the next cycle.
A one-lesson planning sheet for two co-teachers: shared goals, who does what, checks for understanding, and reflection.
What is inside
🎯 Shared Learning Goals
Planning fields for shared learning goals and success criteria.
👥 Role Distribution
Framework aligned to evidence-based co-teaching models. Forces the conversation about who does what, which is the conversation most pairs skip.
📊 Assessment Integration
Connects formative checks to instruction. Both teachers see how assessment data informs the next instructional move, not just the end-of-unit grade.
🔄 Reflection Prompts
Drives the next planning cycle. What worked, what did not, what needs to change. The template sets up the next conversation, not just the current lesson.
Who this is for
Co-Teaching Pairs • Instructional Coaches • Special Education Teachers • Administrators
If your co-teaching teams are planning in parallel instead of together, this template gives them a shared structure that makes the partnership visible.
How to use it
Download the Word document. Sit down with your co-teaching partner and work through the template together for one lesson. The role distribution section forces the conversation about who does what. The reflection prompts set up the next planning cycle.
If you need help moving from template to practice, that is where I come in. Building the rollout plan, training sequence, and implementation support is the work that turns a document into district practice.
Free: the Co-Teaching Lesson Planning Kit (editable Word doc). Enter your email and confirm once, and it arrives in your welcome email.
Going further: the Instructional Coaching Systems Pack, $29 adds coaching tools for the follow-up cycle, or we can work with your teams directly through Co-Teaching and Inclusion →