# Teacher Oat Co-Teaching Agreement

As a responsible and caring member of this co-teaching team, I promise to do the following:

1. **Respect the perspectives of my co-teacher.** Just because that isn’t the way I would do it doesn’t make it wrong.
2. **Put students and instruction at the center of my co-teaching relationship;** it is because of the students that our team exists.
3. **Engage in best practices,** recognizing that the goal of co-teaching is student success.
4. **Communicate with my co-teacher about classroom concerns.**
5. **Support my co-teacher’s decisions in front of the students.** I recognize the importance of presenting a unified front.
6. **Take time to plan with my co-teacher on a regular basis.**
7. **Celebrate our successes,** whether they are with individual students or classwide.
8. **Evaluate and improve practices with my co-teacher** to make our partnership stronger.
9. **Recognize that disagreements are inevitable** and commit to working through difficult situations in a professional manner.

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From *How to Co-Teach: A Guide for General and Special Educators* by Elizabeth A. Potts & Lori A. Howard. Copyright © 2011 by Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.