Collaborative Teaching in Elementary Schools: Making the Co-Teaching Marriage Work! - Paperback

by Wendy W. Murawski (Author)

Say "I do!" to greater learning success for students at all levels!

Based on the author's extensive experience, this lighthearted, highly practical, and teacher-friendly resource uses the metaphor of marriage

Author Biography

Dr. Wendy Murawski is an Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator at California State University, Northridge in the Department of Special Education. She is an experienced co-teacher (for K-12 and university, general and special education) and an accomplished presenter. She is often requested to work with state departments, districts & schools, keynote at conferences, and provide numerous training seminars. Wendy holds a Masters.degree in Special Education, an Ed.S. in Educational Administration, and a Ph.D. in Special Education with an emphasis in Research, Collaboration and Co-teaching.. She has won prestigious awards, to include the Dissertation Award from the Division of Learning Disabilities, a Publication Award from the Division of Research for the Council for Exceptional Children, and she was the 2004 California Teacher Educator of the Year. Wendy′s research in the area of co-teaching has been widely disseminated through her numerous publications. Wendy is the author of Co-Teaching in the Inclusive Classroom: Working Together to Help ALL Your Students Find Success, an extensive resource handbook on co-teaching, as well as the co-creator of the CTSS (Co-teach Solutions System) software. Wendy is a dynamic speaker who utilizes humor, personal experience and research-based methods in her seminars while keeping them in the context of practical, ready-to-use strategies for general and special educators to implement in their inclusive classrooms. Currently, Wendy lives in southern California with her husband, son, cat, and a really mean fish.