Co-Teaching as Marriage Analogy

Two teachers in a classroom are, to me, in an arranged marriage! I am so grateful and lucky to have a talented co-teacher, but it is difficult to well with someone over so much time! I just did a workshop for first year teachers about working with co-teachers. I used this collaboration model from the Thomas Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument to talk about how we want to build a relationship with our co-teacher, but we also want to work towards our goals. It was a tool presented to me as a pre-marital strategy, but it works for teachers to think about their level of compromise and/or collaboration with their teaching team
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