2018 Co-Teaching Reflection

2018 Co-Teaching Reflection

2018 Co-Teaching Reflection We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience. – John Dewey It has been about five months since I started Co-Teaching with elementary teachers. Even though I’ve only been Co-Teaching for a few months, I’m...
CLIL Workshop Reflection

CLIL Workshop Reflection

CLIL Workshop Reflection I’ve learned a tremendous amount over the past year and a half working as an ELL teacher. I’ve ready over a dozen different textbooks, attended a variety of workshops, and was introduced to a slew of new like minded professionals on twitter...
EL Strategies for Specialists

EL Strategies for Specialists

ELL Strategies for Specialists In my experience, when teachers and administrators talk about support and Co-Teaching, they’re almost always referring to classroom teachers. What about supporting our specialist teachers? In P.E, students need to know names of bones and...
The Power of Can-Do

The Power of Can-Do

The Power of Can-Do I had a Co-Teaching reflection post outlined for this week, but I was inspired to write something a bit different and on the fly. Conversations with teachers can often escalate to something like this:   Teacher: (clearly frustrated) “This...
Developing an Engagement Mindset

Developing an Engagement Mindset

Developing an Engagement Mindset A reflection on a weekend workshop Engagement is an integral part of any classroom. However, these buzz words don’t hold much meaning unless they are practiced on a daily basis. “The Center of Inspired Teaching” helped reassure me how...