The articles all connect around the list of benefits to both teachers in the partnership. The benefit to the newer teacher will be to acclimate them to the building, level, subject. I of course will be reminded on several best practices and certainly will in turn work out some of my tendencies in the classroom that could be improved. The different phases discussed in the second article are not strangers for the experienced teachers as well. We all progress through the year and hit a point where we need to change it up, even if it is working well enough.
