After five months of co-teaching this is still a difficult question to answer. My schedule change has allowed me to experience co-teaching with 5 different teachers. Co-teaching has the end goal of meeting the needs of students who learn differently. One partnership I experienced was in a reading class. Students are required to interact with their text for 20-30 minutes and meet with the general education teacher every reading class. It was challenging to decide what students were going where and when! I questioned why there was even a need for a co-teacher with that model of reading instruction. An example of how this worked with a co-teacher was, one teacher pulling a small group and the other teacher assisting students with seat work (interacting with text). I would ask students to read aloud to me to ensure that they were comprehending and decoding correctly (not just sitting there flipping pages too). Another example of co-teaching is each teacher taking a small group and t...
Teaching is the BEST!!! I love working with students and creating student centered activities. I graduated from the University of Tennessee studying Elementary Education and Deaf Education. I student taught at the Tennessee School for the Deaf, and I have worked in Atlanta for 2 years as a special education/hearing impaired teacher.