Ability to talk behind each other's back, look for mistakes, and find negative information to run and tell.

Ability to take long breaks and lunches.

Ability to text and tweet to build your cell phone skills.

Ability to work together to support the needs of the students and through disagreements and misunderstandings.

Being prepared to make excuses when something doesn't go your way.

Ability to plan ahead and organize the classroom to meet the needs of all students.

Ability to gather your belongings to run out the door at 3:30pm each day.

Ability to find ways to do the bare minimum in the classroom.

Before school, afterschool & during the students' rest time.

All throughout the day

During your lunch break

During the teacher's planning period.

Establish routines and procedures and communicate how to implement them into the classroom.

Create and Implement lesson plans and share them with your partner.

Be prepared and organized

Consistently communicate with parents and your partner.

Support the teacher with routines and procedures as well as conducting instructional activities as assigned by the teacher and work with small groups.

Engaging in conversations on your cell phone during instructional time.

Assist with preparing instructional materials and help maintain a neat and orderly classroom environment.

Consistently wear a frowny on your face and pout when things don't go your way.

Consistently communicate and collaborate together, exercise discretion and confidentiality with every aspect of school information related to students, and provide professional courtesies to one another.

Follow and model appropriate classroom behavior which includes self-regulation such as voice control and tone, word choice, and positive redirection strategies.

Actively monitor and be engaged with students at all times.

Be on time to work, assigned duties, and adhere daily classroom and lunch schedules.

Provide professional courtesies and allow room for mistakes and/or misunderstandings.

Quit on your partner desiring a switch with uncertainties that the switch may or may not be better.

Submit to a Mind-Shift. Self-Reflect often individually AND together. Rate your behavior and discuss ways to improve individually and as a team.

Implement the silent treatment towards your partner and start the countdown to 3:00.

Call in often and don't come to work.

Write down two or three things that brings us joy and do them often. Smile often. Research shows that smiling often reduces stress.

Put in the work to get ahead, organized, and prepared to reduce stress and anxiety.

Make others do the work for us so that everything will be a breeze.

Take care of ourselves mentally and physically.

Become more self-reflective

Question our behavior and service to others? (i.e. How did I operate today? Did I or am I operating in excellence?)

Become anti-social and dash for the door every time we have an opportunity.