My co-teaching experience went fairly well.  I did a lesson on writing paragraphs and a lesson on finding a good news article.  The second was a pretty standard lesson, and I only taught for about 15 minutes.  The students seemed moderately interested in what I was saying, and some of the new stuff I showed them about how to use wikipedia and other search tools.  There were, however, only seven students in the class so it was very easy to keep their attention,

The other lesson was a bit different.  Mr. Homan had prepared a slide show with some paragraphs on it, and we went through as a group and critiqued them.  The students were supposed to give the paragraph a check mark for each criteria it met, such as conclusion sentence or supporting evidence.  The students were talkative, like they always are, but when I asked them a question they were able to answer.  I’m not sure if they were humoring me, but they seemed to understand the lesson, even if it wasn’t particularly exciting.

There was, however, an incident.  I recorded this lesson, and about three minutes into the recording you can see a student put a piece of paper over the lens of my phone.  I saw the paper, but only after I was done teaching.  There was only one student sitting near the desk where my phone was, and I made him stay after class during the recess hour where we had a long discussion about his behavior.  The conversation went something like this:

“Did you do this?”

“Yeah”

“Was that an ok thing to do?”

“No”

“So what do you think the consequences should be for your actions?”

“Nothing”

I assured him that there would absolutely be consequences for his actions, and we got into a good discussion about how your behavior has repercussions.  He started off the conversation really cocky, but by then end I think he realized that he had screwed up more than he thought, and that I wasn’t going to let it go.  Mr. Homan was extremely unhappy with him, and made a call home to mom and filed some sort of disciplinary report.

In the end, I think we got through to the student, but I’m not sure if it will stick.  He certainly came to comprehend that he had really messed up, but I don’t know if it will change any future behavior.