Saturday, November 14, 2015

Co-Teaching Part 2

This post is really a quick shout-out and thanks to some of the people that have helped and are helping me along the way.

I've always believed in the power of co-teaching from day 1. In my student teaching experience, I was fortunate to work with my mentor teacher Mark Kreie ( @kreiem ) and Jarrod Huntimer. The three of use were able to work with an amazing group of students at Brookings High School in Brookings, SD. I owe quite a bit to the two gentlemen above.

Right now I am fortunate enough to have co-teachers in three classes and my advisory intervention. Kaeli Jantz ( @JantzKaeli ) is an amazing special education math teacher I work with in the morning.

 Mrs. Fields also joined us about a month ago to help with morning math classes. It is fantastic to be able to have three teacher in the room to help with questions, break into small groups, or deliver differentiated instruction.

In my final hour of the day Sue Scott ( @suescottinok ), our speech/drama/PE now 7th hour math teacher is helping me work with a very engaging group. With her help I am able to go on major relationship repair with most of the students in 7th hour and many of the kids are now excited for math!

Thank you to everyone who has or is currently co-teaching with me. The real winners are the students!