Sunday, October 28, 2012
Co-Teaching
Reading Purposeful Co-Teaching by Greg Conderman, Val Bresnahan, and Theresa Pedersen was very interesting especially the chapter where they talked about the co-teaching stages. I think the most important stage is the beginning stage which talks about getting to know your co-teacher and establishing a relationship with that person. I think that this is the most important stage because if you don't start off with a good relationship with your co-teacher then everything else will go downhill. You have to start off having a good relationship with your co-teacher so you both can have a good rapport with each other and be able to communicate about the children in your classroom and also be able to create lesson plans together. I believe that is how my assistant and I started off. Last year when we first started working together I did not think we would get along but as we got to know each other and saw how the other one works we established a relationship and now our class is organized and the children seem happy.
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I agree with you, Shanyse, the beginning stage of getting to know your co-teacher is crucial. One of the teachers at Meredith always says, as if she were a student: "do you know enough about me to teach me?" I think the same statement could be used with a co-teaching colleague: "do you know enough about me to co-teach with me?"
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