Co-Teaching Can Be Very Messy Essay

Education can be very messy on a daily basis. I like to view it as something fluid that can be changed often as things arise. Teacher do need to be flexible to be able to adapt plans depending on how quickly the students are getting the concepts, adapt plans if a teacher needs to have a substitute in his/her place, adapt when you find out there is a special assembly that was not communicated in a timely fashion; the list can go on and on. Is it possible that education with co-teaching can be even messier than a more traditional educational setting? I think so in some situations, but in others I think it will be less messy. The area that I am looking for co-teaching to be less messy is when I do have to be out of school due to illness,

The students will get to see two teachers working together toward a common goal. They will also get two different perspectives on any given concept in class, as mentioned in the article. Teachers should be modeling what they want to see from their students and if cooperative work is one of those goals, then the students should see the teachers doing that too. Teachers are often overly focussed on the standards that need to be taught and the dreaded state testing that will help to evaluate the performance of the teacher. If the state testing did not exist, I think that students would learn more about how to learn. As the article mentions, we should be teaching the process of learning and not worry as much about the content. I completely agree with this statement and wish I could teach my students how to mathematically utilize the formula for finding the volume of a cylinder or a cone, but instead, I need to make sure they have the actual formula memorized as I have seen both types of questions appear on state testing. Is it that important to be able to recall the formula for finding the volume of a cone? Absolutely not! In fact, I would need to think for a bit to recall it because it is not a common formula that I use often. Why not give the student the formula and allow them to show the state that they can use it to produce an answer? The system makes teachers educate students for some much recall information, I often feel the power of learning how to learn is lost. I hope that through co-teaching and having a personalized learning classroom, my students will be able to learn more about learning and just have the content seep into the open mind of each