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2nd grade inclusion
By coach

How much planning time are you getting with the classroom teachers?
I have a second grade inclusion class and our ese support teacher comes in 45 minutes in the am for reading and 45 minutes in the pm for math. We plan
together whole group and small group activities. Often we share working with the students so that the students don't know she is there for just a few of them. It almost seems like you are doing ese resource pullout in the same room- kinda defeats the purpose of inclusion.
I like the provious post of giving some students independent activities to work on so you can work with 1 or 2 at

a time. This may help some of the behavior problems. Some of the behavior may be tied to the fact that these students feel like they are not working at the same level as everyone else. On top of that they get pulled by you and the smarter kids don't.

When we used the pullout model several years ago the ese pullout teacher came by once a week with a little checklist and interviewed us about each of the ese students progress. She found it worked better than asking the homeroom teacher to fill out a form (that she would never get back). Maybe you could plan to meet even biweekly with each teacher for 15 minutes to discuss the progress?

GOOD LUCK!!!