The assisting teacher may go around helping students on a 1:1 bases while the other teacher instructs the entire class. If a student is not quite sure of what is going on, they have the availability to as the assisting teacher rather than stop the instructional teacher at that moment. (Friend, 2005) One of the biggest disadvantages of this approach is if done too often the assisting teacher may fall back as an assistant rather than a teacher. This approach is not one to be used as a daily approach, if done too often the teacher that walks around as an assist may start lacking in whole class instruction. The student may also look at the other teacher as more superior. As well as become distracted hen the teacher floating around comes by, distracting the student from the general
The assisting teacher may go around helping students on a 1:1 bases while the other teacher instructs the entire class. If a student is not quite sure of what is going on, they have the availability to as the assisting teacher rather than stop the instructional teacher at that moment. (Friend, 2005) One of the biggest disadvantages of this approach is if done too often the assisting teacher may fall back as an assistant rather than a teacher. This approach is not one to be used as a daily approach, if done too often the teacher that walks around as an assist may start lacking in whole class instruction. The student may also look at the other teacher as more superior. As well as become distracted hen the teacher floating around comes by, distracting the student from the general