Wendy W. (Weichel) Murawski

I had high hopes for this book! Imagine my favorite topic and even though it concentrates on co-teaching in special ed, it just might have some great advice for teacher librarians. Wrong. The role of the partners in this book are unequal. They are not peers. One is the classroom teacher and the co-teacher, whild participating in the learning activities is actually part of the team where supervision is taking place. If you as a teacher is going to teach alongside a person who is evaluating your performance, I think the partnership has a m ajor reason to fail. It is one thing to mento and dig in to the learning experience with equal ferfor, but quite another to have a wall of reluctance and perhaps even fear before you eaven set out. Instructional coaches and principals often come into classrooms to observe and I suppose after a while, the classroom teacher gets used to suc observations; or, there might be a video of the lesson being recorded for later analysis. Not again, my cup of tea. So, reluctantly, don’t both with this one. No good advice here.… (mehr)