Teacher Communication

We had a few options about what to write about for this blog post and immediately upon seeing it, I knew I'd want to share with you what I've witnessed about Teacher-to-Teacher communication. During my placement I've seen what I think to be the worst teacher-to-teacher talk.
I know it's been awhile since I've been in high school, but if I were a student who witnesses this stuff, I would not have appreciated it at all. Teachers blatantly talk about their students around other students. Students can hear all of these comments that the teachers make about their classmates. During my co-op's study hall period, it seems a teacher is always stopping by to gossip about some of their mutual students. I cannot understand why they think that this is okay to do this, while there are students in the classroom. I know we probably have a lot we want to share with each other about student behaviors, but there is a time and a place to share this information and I don't believe it's in front of any group of students.
In addition to this rude behavior, my co-op team teaches a general level class with another English teacher. They are constantly talking over each other and telling the class to do one thing or the other. I find this to be insanely distracting and I'm not the one who's trying to learn something in class. I understand the necessity of team-teaching in this instance because the students just constantly need to be told to be focused, however when one teacher is scolding a child and the other teacher is trying to teach a lesson, little cross learning is occurring.
I know we're just pre-service teachers, but it's so frustrating for me to simply stand by and watch these things. This has been on my mind almost all of placement and when I finally had the opportunity here to rant about it, I just went ahead and did it. Sorry!