Pull out vs push in
I’m a Resource teacher at a middle school, also certified in math. Next year I will coteach math 6 and math 7 with a teacher I’ve never worked with. At the end of school, we had one conversation. (More like, she talked a mile a minute and I couldn’t get a word in edgewise). Ugh. I find her overbearing and bossy. Anyway, she wants me to take whoever performs low on the monday exit ticket over to my own classroom for a couple days of the week. (To help the students, of course, but she kept on talking about the large class size and it seems like she just wants fewer students in there :( This sounds like the opposite of what my AP/evaluator wants me to do, which is run small groups in the gen ed classroom.
Middle school students want to stay with their peers! How will I build relationships with the whole class if I’m constantly ferrying a bunch of students all around? Please help. Should I try to meet with my admin before August to clarify her expectations? Thank you for your help.