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This year I am co-teaching a class with a very good friend of mine. We co-taught together years ago, and put in a special request last year so we would be able to work together again. Well, here we are over half way into the school year and I am regretting doing this. I do all of the planning for the class, and she offers almost no input whenever I try to collaborate with her. I grade almost all of the papers. When she does happen to take a set of papers to grade, they don't get returned to students until weeks after they have been submitted. When we are in class, her only contributions are management related comments to students. She will also read aloud the directions on handouts. Over the past couple of weeks, she has been coming into class, and immediately sitting down at the teacher's desk where she remains working on her computer for the majority of the period.

I don't really know how to address this with her because of the fact that we are friends. I am very close with...See More
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sped is the fastest way to burnout due to the excess work. n On 2/27/17, sped wrote: > One thing I will say in defense of the special ed teachers > is that many of them are not content area experts. I was > assigned to co- teach an Algebra II class, and honestly I > didn't know much more than the students about the material > and I probably hadn't seen it since the one math class I > took i...See More
Mar 1, 2017
mrwiseman It is going to be tough getting things to change this far in to the year. Patterns have been set and the two of you have never establish clear cut expectations. To some degree you are going to have to chalk it all up to experience.

I think you will have to continue to write lesson plans. I think the content teacher should take the lead in...See More
Mar 22, 2017
justateacher1 On 2/26/17, HS Teacher wrote: > This year I am co-teaching a class with a very good > friend of mine. We co-taught together years ago, > and put in a special request last year so we would > be able to work together again. Well, here we are > over half way into the school year and I am > regretting doing this. I do all of the plann...See More
Mar 22, 2017
justateacher1 On 2/26/17, HS Teacher wrote: > This year I am co-teaching a class with a very good > friend of mine. We co-taught together years ago, > and put in a special request last year so we would > be able to work together again. Well, here we are > over half way into the school year and I am > regretting doing this. I do all of the plann...See More
Mar 22, 2017
justateacher1 On 2/26/17, HS Teacher wrote: > This year I am co-teaching a class with a very good > friend of mine. We co-taught together years ago, > and put in a special request last year so we would > be able to work together again. Well, here we are > over half way into the school year and I am > regretting doing this. I do all of the plann...See More
Mar 22, 2017


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