Co-Teaching

Co-Teaching allows PowerSchool administrators to assign multiple lead teachers, as well as additional staff or teachers to a section. The teacher-of-record is the lead teacher, and other staff or teachers are the additional teachers.

The administrator can select additional teachers, indicating the role, the percent allocation to the role, the start and end dates, and an optional note for each teacher.

A Section Teachers icon displays with a shared section on the Quick Lookup, Bell Schedule, and Modify Schedule pages to alert you that more than one teacher shares a section.

If a section is shared between multiple teachers, teachers can generate section-specific reports even if they are not the lead teacher of a section. Some System Reports in PowerSchool will display section and teacher association data. Refer to System Reports for more information.

Co-Teaching Roles

PowerSchool comes with default roles, which should be sufficient for most configurations. If additional roles are needed, you can set up roles with the necessary access to the PowerSchool SIS Teacher portal.

After you define the roles, you can assign the roles to teachers and staff in the affected section. For more information, refer to Sections.

Use Co-Teaching roles to manage the level of access given to teachers who access the PowerSchool SIS Teacher portal. By default, there are four predefined roles that you can assign to teachers: Lead Teacher, Co-Teacher, Teacher Aide, and Observer. You can edit or delete any of these roles except for the Lead Teacher role. You can create as many roles as needed according to your district's needs.

Use the Co-Teaching Roles page to review a chart that displays each role and the assigned properties.

The Co-Teaching Configure Matrix View page allows you to customize the role assignments displayed on the Co-Teaching Roles page, as well as the properties assigned to each role.

Create a Co-Teaching Role

1. Navigate to the User Roles page.
2. Click Co-Teaching.
3. Click New.

4. Use the following table to enter the necessary information.

   Field	Description
   Name	Enter the name of the role, such as Teacher's Aide.
   Description	Enter a description of the role.
   Enabled	Select this option to enable the role. Alternatively, clear the selection to set the role to inactive. If you set a role to inactive, it cannot be applied to newly added teachers. Teachers already assigned a role that is set to inactive will continue to reflect the assigned to the role for reporting purposes.
   Access sections in PowerTeacher Portal	Select this option to allow this role to display sections in the PowerSchool SIS Teacher portal.
   Access sections past the end date	Select this option to allow this role to display sections past their role end date. When this option is enabled, the level of access persists in the assigned section until a new role for the teacher is assigned.
   Display this role in Parent Portal	Select this option to display this role in PowerSchool SIS for Students and Parents.
   Display this role in PowerSchool Admin	Select this option to display this role in PowerSchool SIS.
   Display this role in PowerTeacher Portal	Select this option to display this role in the PowerSchool SIS Teacher portal.
   Display this role as a teacher on system reports	Select this option to display this role on reports.
   Default allocation percent	Enter the default allocation percent for this role.
   Reference code	Enter a reference code for this role.
   Alt. code 1	Enter an alternate code for this role.
   Alt. code 2	Enter an alternate code for this role.

5. Click Submit.

Sort Co-Teaching Roles

Use the following procedure to arrange the roles into the order in which you want the role to display on the Co-Teaching Roles page and the Manage Roles dialog box on the Section Edit page.

1. Navigate to the User Roles page.
2. Click Co-Teaching.

3. Drag and drop the roles to sort the order.

   

   If a role is added, it displays as the last item in the sort order. If a role is deleted, the sort order is automatically updated and re-sequenced as needed.

Edit a Co-Teaching Role

1. Navigate to the User Roles page.
2. Click Co-Teaching.
3. Click the name of the role you want to edit.
4. Edit information as needed.
5. Click Submit.

Delete a Co-Teaching Role

Roles can only be deleted if they are not in use anywhere in PowerSchool. If the role is assigned to a teacher, the teacher must be reassigned to another role before deleting the role.

1. Navigate to the User Roles page.
2. Click Co-Teaching.
3. Click the name of the role you want to edit.
4. Click Delete.
5. Click Confirm Delete.

Configure the Co-Teaching Matrix View

1. Navigate to the User Roles page.
2. Click Co-Teaching.
3. Click Configure Table.

4. Use the following table to enter information in the fields:

   Field	Description
   Short Name	Enter the text you want to display on the column heading on the Co-Teaching Roles page. The maximum length is 100 characters.
   Show in Matrix	For the applicable assignment, complete one of the following: Select the option to display the role assignment on the Co-Teaching Roles page. Clear the selection to hide the role assignment.

5. Click Submit.