Re: co-teaching
Posted by maureen on 7/18/08
On 7/17/08, may wrote:
> Any ideas regarding co-teaching with 2 Montessori trained
> teachers one AMI and the other NCME. Both want to be head
> teachers... any advice how to handle this? record keeping
> and giving lessons?
I have done it twice in recent years. It works with my
current teacher but it did not with the younger one. Although
we all have been AMS trained, it was at different centers,
and the younger teacher had all different trainers then I did
a the same center many years before. I serve as the "planner"
and do most of the recordkeeping as I am the one that does
the parent teacher communication and conferences. I have
a "main plan" in written form that the other teacher refers
to in giving lessons. They mark down after a lesson is given
and might also jot down a comment that expands on what
happened. Also we take our strengths and that teacher is
the "lead" on that. For instance my current co teacher is
good with formal music training and she does the daily music
experiences with the children.
WHen I had a great assistant who was not trained for several
years, I had a weekly chart of "suggestions" of what work to
help a child "choose" when he was having a disruptive time.
She would mark down next to the work on the list so I could
review and see what work the child had returned to.(She did
not give new lessons. She was not trained but she knew the
work very well and was good at "rounding up" the restless
ones to get them focussing again.)
I am probably not as "picky" as probably an AMI trained
teacher is in how a lesson is presented and will not get
horrified if something is not presented exactly like I would
do it. I tailor the lesson to the individual child anyway so
I might not present exactly the same for Child Focus A+ as I
would to Child Inattentive. I have changed many of my lessons
over the years after observing in other schools or from other
teachers when I like the lesson better then my own training.
To me as long as a teacher has a good rationale for doing
something the way she is, and the child is enthralled with
the presentation, then I am ok with it.
So, flexibility on the part of the teacher who is the "lead".
I definitely would not devide the students or the classroom
into a territory.(how boring that sounds). Our students only
know that all of us are teachers, not that one is "the one".
That's the way it should be - respect for all of us and the
faith that any of us can assist them when they want it.
maureen
Posts on this thread, including this one
- co-teaching, 7/17/08, by may.
- Re: co-teaching, 7/17/08, by Mary.
- Re: co-teaching, 7/18/08, by maureen.
- Re: co-teaching, 7/26/08, by Tamiko.
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