Co-teaching

I liked the presentation on co-teaching, as it is something that I have always been interested in doing, but have not had the opportunity to do yet. I definitely feel it is important to consider personalities and teaching styles when deciding to co-teach a class, and that an administrator should not have teachers co-teach without discussing it with each of them first. I can see how teaming a special education teacher and a regular classroom teacher could create an environment where students view the special education teacher as some sort of an aide, since the special education teacher would probably have more knowledge of how to assist special education students and would do so more. It would be important for the co-teachers to explain to the class from the beginning the unique co-teaching situation. I also found it interesting that co-teachers haven't been evaluated as co-teachers. If I was an administrator, I would want to evaluate each co-teaching situation to see if it was effective.