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I know co-teaching can be beneficial to both students and teachers. However, my experience was a nightmare. I was asked to co-teach 7th grade language arts/reading with an ESE teacher. The class had 22 students, 12 of whom were ESE.

We were not given common planning time, so the ESE teacher basically left it to me to do all the planning--basically she just wandered the room to provide extra help for the kids.

Administration also saw no problem to pulling her out of my room whenever they needed something done--ESE testing, paperwork, even covering another teacher's class. So I was left with 22 extremely low 7th graders (the majority read at the 2nd grade level) who came to me with the attitude that they were dumb and could not learn so why bother.

Admittedly, I loved the kids when I had a chance to work/talk with them one on one, but altogether they were a nightmare. In fact, that was the class that finally pushed me out of middle school and up to high schoo...See More
st Wow, I'm sorry you had such a bad experience! I have some experience coteaching too, from the ESE side. We officially had common planning time but often it was pushed aside for other things. That made coteaching very difficult, but I did my best to work around her schedule, email her, etc. to adapt tests, materials, instruction. It definitely was n...See More
Jun 26, 2011
parents talk On 6/26/11, st wrote: > My son attended a privet school in 1st grade that had co-teachers for the 1/2 grade classroom of 20 students who were really co-teachers. I may be wrong, but I thought co-teaching was when two teachers worked together for the good of the classroom. Each helping with where their strengths are, but not putting the burden on...See More
Jun 26, 2011
Terry On 6/26/11, Teri wrote: > I know co-teaching can be beneficial to both students and > teachers. However, my experience was a nightmare. I was > asked to co-teach 7th grade language arts/reading with an > ESE teacher. The class had 22 students, 12 of whom were > ESE. > > We were not given common planning time, so the ESE teacher...See More
Jun 27, 2011
Love2Teach On 6/27/11, Terry wrote: > On 6/26/11, Teri wrote: >> I know co-teaching can be beneficial to both students and >> teachers. However, my experience was a nightmare. I was >> asked to co-teach 7th grade language arts/reading with an >> ESE teacher. The class had 22 students, 12 of whom were >> ESE. >> >> ...See More
Jun 27, 2011


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