Introducing Skills: A New Way to Make Coteach Your Own

Coteach works best when it gets clear, specific guidance. If you have specific guidance you provide again and again, we’ve made it easier for Coteach to always follow your same guidance.

We’re excited to introduce Coteach Skills. Skills lets you create reusable instructions that help Coteach remember how to tailor its responses to you. Below are some example Skills to help inspire you in making Coteach your own.

1. Create a Consistent MLL Scaffold Pack

Many teachers create language supports for almost every lesson, but the format matters. If students recognize the structure, they can use the support more independently.

With Skills, you can teach Coteach your preferred MLL scaffold format once, then reuse it whenever you’re prepping a lesson.

Add this Skill to your Coteach account in one easy click here.

Now Coteach can help generate supports that match the way you already support multilingual learners, without you having to restate the whole format each time.

2. Turn IM Lessons Into Building Thinking Classrooms Plans

If you use Building Thinking Classrooms, you probably have strong preferences for how the lesson should feel: quick verbal launch, students at vertical whiteboards, groups thinking before formal instruction, and consolidation at the end.

Skills lets you save that structure so Coteach can help adapt IM lessons into the format you consistently use.

Add this BTC Skill to your Coteach account by clicking here.  

Instead of explaining your BTC routine every time, you can let Coteach follow your plan structure and focus your energy on the math.

3. Bring Your School or District Priorities Into Coteach

Every school has instructional priorities: supporting multilingual learners, keeping interventions connected to grade-level content, using a shared lesson internalization protocol, or writing family communications in a consistent format.

Skills give teachers, coaches, and teams a way to bring those priorities into daily planning.

For example, a team might create a skill for language support, small-group instruction, or intervention planning so Coteach consistently follows the same approach.

Ready to Try Skills?

We hope Skills makes Coteach even more helpful as it understands how you teach and lead – and understands that your time is valuable!

Make Coteach your own by creating your first Skill in Coteach today!