I also think the work is shared equally but my co-teacher has so many ideas and a very different teaching style, that it is hard for my mentor teacher to do anything but support her. I feel that the students defiantly need to be supported but I think another different teacher should support them as well to give them the full support that they need when working on a project or paper. I think it is very interesting to see these polar opposite models in my classroom, so I can best gain insight and knowledge on how to teach in my future career as an …show more content…
The co-teaching model set up in my second period classroom isn’t an ideal team teaching process. My mentor teacher and her counterpart haven’t successfully discovered each other’s strengths and weaknesses which can make team teaching very difficult and can cause them to lose sight of the ultimate goal, which is the individual student. Their supports do help students with disabilities in my classroom but I wish they would make it more of a team effort, instead of assigning one person to be in charge of individually helping a student. I hope to gain further knowledge into the co-teaching and collaboration world and learn techniques that I can use in the classroom. I am excited to continue to watch how collaboration and co- teaching play out in my classroom. I also hope to see my students benefit from this model and ultimately be successful in their