Conflict with Colleague

The conflict which I am presently having is with a colleague. She is an administrative assistant, and she has a tendency to interrupt the class during classroom discussion for paper work or personal issues. My colleague has been at this site for five years, and I have been here for 18 months. Last week one of my students was opening a GED account to take a practice exam. We have two classrooms with one having a computer lab in it. The student was supposed to open the account and take the GED practice test. On Wednesday my colleague informs me that she had the student finish a questionnaire after the student had open his GED account and to wait to take the practice test.

My colleague is an assistant office administrator, and her title is not instructor. On Thursday morning when the students were taking their twenty minute break. I had a discussion with my colleague. I asked her not to interrupt the classroom discussion for personal matters or paperwork issues because the students have an hour of individual work between 12 P.M. TO 1 P.M, and she can have personal discussion with the students then. I asked her not to pull students from an assignments which I have directed them to complete without informing me first. I did not argue with her or confront her about her actions.

I informed her that I am open to any of her ideas as one of my strategies, and another strategy was to acknowledge her of her duties and that they are important to the education of our students as well. In conclusion I asked her how would she feel when she is during her orientation with a student if I would interrupt her and have the student to join the classroom discussion before orientation is completed. I wanted to put her in my shoes to see how her actions were disrupting to the class.