20 Things to Never Say to Your Co-teacher
I was co-teaching biology and working with a teacher who could say the meanest things with a smile on his face. One day, I was teaching the parts of the heart. When I finished explaining the difference between the inferior vena cava and the superior vena cava, he told...
Help! My Co-teacher is Completely Different from Me
What do you do when your co-teacher is so completely different from you? Sometimes we relish the differences and sometimes the differences pose challenges. A few years ago, I worked with a co-teaching pair who were absolutely opposite personality types. One was...
Teaching Strategies for All Ability Levels in a Larger Classroom
In any general class, there are students of different ability levels and, correspondingly, grade levels. Direct teaching the entire class together can sometimes leave higher-grade, higher-ability students bored and perhaps acting out, while lower-ability students may...