{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"53074412","dateCreated":"1334847243","smartDate":"Apr 19, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"88094","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/88094","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/co-teaching2.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/53074412"},"dateDigested":1531982978,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Am Gov't","description":"Co-teaching has been a great experience for me. I co-teach with Russ Tillmann in Am. Gov't. As Carissa mentioned in her post "World History", being in the same curriculum class for an extended period of time helps immensly. We are in our 2nd year together. Knowledge of the material makes for a positive co-teaching experience in working with the students on curriculum concepts. We have used the What\/How\/Who Approach in class. Since there is a lot of group work in our class, this approach works well for us when working with diverse learning styles of the students.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"52328402","dateCreated":"1333053742","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"choskins08","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/choskins08","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/co-teaching2.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/52328402"},"dateDigested":1531982979,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"World History","description":"I teach World History with Joe Vogt. The one advantage Joe and I have is that this is our 7th year of teaching together. Joe and I are past finding a comfort zone, not stepping on toes, equal balance of responsibilities, etc. The challenge we do have is finding a common planning time since we don't have a "scheduled" regular block of time. So, because of this, Joe and I stay focused to the task we need to accomplish. We have built a relationship outside of school having daughters the same age, so when we are at school our conversations and time go to planning for school. We also do a lot of dividing and conquering. We know eachother's strengths and weaknesses and I feel compensate for one another in that area. Again, we are fortunate to have had the time together. That has helped us tremendously.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"52329256","body":"I totally agree with Carissa that is very important to have a long standing relationship if possible. The first few years it was difficult because Carissa was learning the class material and we were laos trying to define our roles in the classroom. We don't have common planning time so that has made it more difficult but like Carissa said we are very focused in the time we do have together to plan. In terms of dividing and conquering I feel this is very important as we both have a laundry list of things we need to do on a daily basis. I can focus what I'm good at and Carissa can focus on the things she does well. I'm very sad that next year I won't be with Carissa as I'm switching to U.S. History. We talked about her switching with me because we have such a good relationship but we felt that knowing the classroom material was very important. I'm also very confident that she will be able to forge a new positive relationship with Mr. Slinde. We have very similar teaching styles. However, I feel like I'm getting divorced from my "work wife" as my real wife calls her!!!! I'm planning on taking her to the cleaners in divoce court!!!!!!","dateCreated":"1333055504","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"jacksonduper","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/jacksonduper","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"52355766","body":"Awe--- I was getting emotional until I read the last sentence. Good luck with that! Just kidding. I am very nervous about starting over next year. There is a lot of weird feelings that go with building a relationship with someone you don't really know. I am confident that Brad and I will be a good team. We will just have to have open communication if we feel things are working or not working and go from there. One other important thing I think Joe and I do is split the responsibility of the kids. We have no you take the SE kids and I'll take the reg ed, or vice versa. They truly are "our" kids and I appreciate that. He has emailed, called, even had staffings with special ed kids and I have done the same with reg. ed. I believe this is important for the students to see as well. That we are both just teachers, not SE or Regular. Anyway, I look forward to next year starting fresh, but I will miss the comfort and rapport I have with Joe. ;-(","dateCreated":"1333116204","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"choskins08","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/choskins08","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"51705580","dateCreated":"1331740866","smartDate":"Mar 14, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dlindbeck","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dlindbeck","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1331840810\/dlindbeck-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":true,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/co-teaching2.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/51705580"},"dateDigested":1531982979,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"First Discussion","description":"This is how you post.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"51705914","body":"On the upper right hand corner, next to the edit tab, you can start a new thread. You can click on the topic to continue the discussion. Enjoy!","dateCreated":"1331741297","smartDate":"Mar 14, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dlindbeck","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dlindbeck","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1331840810\/dlindbeck-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"51707216","body":"Ellen and I were reminded that we had not tried station teaching yet. We formulated a plan during the brief co-teaching meeting on the morning of Wednesday the seventh. By third period, we had narrowed down the information that we wanted to cover in our stations and implemented the plan. The result was extremely positive.
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\nBenefits: Fast paced - Moving around the classroom - small bursts of information -
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\nDrawbacks: Two groups were unsupervised at a time and got off task - Ran short on time - Only covered a small amount of information
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\nComplaint: Common planning time. With full schedules, we were told to use eighth hour study hall to plan. That is unrealistic while supervising more than 100+ kids.","dateCreated":"1331742732","smartDate":"Mar 14, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"chicks130","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/chicks130","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1331740175\/chicks130-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"51753672","body":"LOVED station teaching! IT was fun to do, but what we have discussed(Hicks, myself, Leonard) supported and co-taught sections need to stay UNDER 20 kids. If we are teaching these gray area kids, we need to be able to CONNECT with them!!!! Just a thought!!!!!!!","dateCreated":"1331828182","smartDate":"Mar 15, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"Blair74","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Blair74","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1331828367\/Blair74-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"51763760","body":"Great point, Blair. Next year, there is only one scheduled section of the lower level English 10 class. Not counting failures, enrollment is already in the mid\/high twenties which would discourage strategies such as station teaching. This is not a great idea for our gray area students.","dateCreated":"1331840035","smartDate":"Mar 15, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"chicks130","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/chicks130","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1331740175\/chicks130-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"51764110","body":"Do you think station teaching and numbers is related to numbers of students or evironmental (size of the room)?","dateCreated":"1331840493","smartDate":"Mar 15, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dlindbeck","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dlindbeck","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1331840810\/dlindbeck-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"51799890","body":"Hi Dave - Based on our limited experience, the number of students is far more influential to the activity than the size of the room. We only planned four stations (two of which were directly supervised) to make smaller groups. Unfortunately, when the kids weren't with me or Blair, the groups were significantly less productive.","dateCreated":"1331912841","smartDate":"Mar 16, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"chicks130","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/chicks130","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1331740175\/chicks130-lg.jpg"}},{"id":"51800336","body":"I have had similar. If you group them it could work, but then you have to know them. Its hard to get to know them in larger classes.","dateCreated":"1331913316","smartDate":"Mar 16, 2012","userCreated":{"username":"dlindbeck","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/dlindbeck","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1331840810\/dlindbeck-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}