There are several teachers who I have formed a great working relationship with and one that I have become friends with as the year has progressed. I am pretty excited about all of them. Several teachers who I work with during our PLC's, which also include forming a better relationship with two of my previous mentor teachers at Morgantown High School, two of the special educations co-teachers who I work with, and finally the history teacher whose room is next door to mine. I was already working well with the two mentor teachers who I worked with previously so I won't discuss those. The two teachers I work with during our PLC are really fun to work with and we have all worked really well together. Although, Susie and I (another intern) always get suckered into doing all of the work until this last PLC where we all worked together. They are both really nice and very helpful and we have worked well together regarding out 10th grade classes. There is only one 11th grade teacher who I've talk to about work but I have been friends with her for several years. The history teacher has been awesome to befriend because we have discovered that we have many of the same students so we have been able to work together to get them to work better in both classes. He also just comes in to talk sometimes throughout the day and we usually just discuss our days after school, too, which is nice to just get all of that out of my head and tell someone else, which I'm sure is similar for him, as well. He has been teaching for 4 years now in history and we share a lot of history ideas which should be helpful in the future for both of us!
The relationships I am happiest about building are those with the co-teachers. There is one "autism aid" who works with me during 3rd period and she is a lifesaver in more ways than one. She is one of the nicest co-teachers I have worked with and she is so helpful with giving me prior information on students regarding IEP's. We have two students with autism in my 4th period class and without her as an aid, one of them would cause major disruptions in the class but thankfully, she sits with this student and stops the problem before it becomes a major issue. She is working on an actual degree in special education currently so we discuss this a lot, too. The special education teacher who co-teaches with me during 2nd and 4th period is the best. He really doesn't do much co-teaching with me, but he is in the classroom and he helps me with reading aloud to students who want it, and prompting students to work when they are not working. We have this problem frequently in 2nd and 4th and while I work with some students, he works with others. He has actually taught me so much about IEP's and the processes that go along with those and we have already worked together with plans for my contract hours. I am going to take his place as co-teacher for several days and he is going to sit down with me and show me how to work on IEP's and I'm going to go to several IEP, SAT, and 504 meetings with him next semester! He has been extremely helpful as I really love my collaborative classes and hope to teach more of these in the future. :-)
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