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You shouldn't feel stressed when Co-Teaching. The purpose of this is to be less stressful. Use your time to discuss the different roles and responsibilities you are comfortable and confident with. Remember you are working as a team! Then once this is done you can work as a team to expand further on this to help the students in a more positive way that also helps us expand our knowledge as educators.

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There are ten helpful habits that will help us as future educators be more successful when Co-Teaching together.

1. Thank someone daily

1. How you do it isn't important the message is.

2. Lighten up

1. Don't take everything so seriously

3. Pick your battles

1. Is this really worth the argument

4. Understand that stuff happens

1. Be able to move on

5. Flexibility is key!

1. Be willing to find a new way around an obstacle

6. You don't always need to be right

1. It's important to understand being right isn't the most important thing

7. Patience is key

1. Focus on what you struggle to be patient with and focus on how you can work on that

8. AVOID SNOWBALL THINKING

1. Don't let one negative thought lead to more and more and more.

9. Don't Interrupt

1. People want to be heard let them talk

10. Everything is not an Emergency

1. Once again relax! You can get through this role with the punches.

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Work on building community-building strategies! The text goes on to talk about many ways that we can do this. One way that really stuck out to me was class meetings. I think this is super important and can help as long as we make sure that the space is safe and students feel comfortable bringing their concerns to the table. Also a lot of community-building games are discussed that can help.

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Some read aloud suggested books that could help add to the discussion on building a better community.

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It's important to make sure that we are not always doing the same thing. Shake it up here and there. Work with your Co-Teacher to help support your students more. This will also help you add to your teaching ability.

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During this time you and your Co-Teacher would be teaching the same exact lesson; however it allows you to give a more intimate lesson and you are able to connect more directly with your students as the text states.

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There are ways that we learned that we can utilize the many different concepts of including different stations. Some important aspects to think of was making sure to provide multiple different materials at different stations so that the kiddos have many different ways to learn and understand the topic. Along with being able to show us what they have learned.

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We learn on day 17 that observing just our Co-teacher might not always be that helpful. It is important to also observe our students and see how they are grasping what is being taught or how receptive they are to the information. Maybe the students are totally disengaged and when you are up in front of the classroom it is something you might not notice. Are the students turn taking? Are the students engaging in the reading? These are important things to look for. Also another concept to think about is, are we as the educators making the goal for this discussion or lesson clear? A couple of tables are also given to us for teacher observation ideas as well as student observation ideas.

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We learned on day 18 about curriculum compacting I thought this was super interesting. This allows students to jump over work that is not appropriate for their performance level. And then provides them with the opportunity to access content that will challenge them in the appropriate manner. There were many other ways we learned that we could differentiate our instruction such as anchor activities along with personalized learning agendas. However, it is important to set the students up for success and provide them with activities to choose from. By providing them the tools to help better manage their time.

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On day 19 we learned about many different ways that we can format our lessons. It is important that we use this time to think differently and go outside of our comfort zone; TRY NEW THINGS! WebQuests was something that was interesting to me. Basically all of the information that the students are learning is coming from the internet or the "click of a mouse" as our text states. However it is best to set up a clear structure to this. Introduce what the student will be doing. this could look like telling the student that they are going to be working for the president and should look at ways to lower gas prices. Then the students would be able to explore how to access this informationl. It is also important to note that it is okay to offer students access to material that is offline but providing that to them through the computer. Let the students know how they will be evaluated, and then concluding the assignment by allowing the students to reflect on what they learned.