I have been that co-teacher in a first grade classroom. I recommend that the co-teacher takes every morning to sit with that student for 10 minutes away from other kids. Allow this student to talk about anything! Get to know the student! It will then be important for both teachers to meet with the parents about a class behavior plan. Come up with a system that the student will respond to. For example, my first grader enjoyed drawing and wanted to draw most of the day. So, we came up with a solution/compromise. For every kind phrase he used towards others we gave him a tally mark. For every 10 tally marks he was allowed to draw for 5 Minutes. If he got 20 tally marks he could draw for 10 minutes. Positive reinforcement worked for this student. I hope it works for yours.

Make sure differentiation strategies and plans are in place for the days activities. A beneficial co-teaching pair will plan every step of the teaching together, so both teachers should have a full understanding of the expectations, modifications, and needs of each student (special ed or not). I would suggest talking to administration about the pulling-out-of-class issue as both teachers are needed in your classroom for your students.

I am going to suggest a resource for both the general education teacher and special education teacher. The book is called Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) for Teachers. This book gives teachers options on how to collect data for students with IEPs or collecting data for RTI.

The teacher should remove the child from the classroom and allow the co teacher to continue working with the rest of the students.

Setting up some kind of system and working with that plan can be benefical to everyone! Using this plan can help not only the students learn but also have the teacher and co teacher be able to teach!