Your teacher is either confused, over-applying a rule, or using a grammar book that's a hundred years old! In other words, he or she is wrong.
In fact, the response "I too" is never used in modern English. You do need to use "I"- the subject pronoun - when you have a verb in the phrase. But if there is no verb, as with " xx too" , we use what's called a disjunctive pronoun - and the first person disjunctive pronoun is ME. It's the same as in French, when you would say 'Moi aussi'. We can also sometimes use the disjunctive pronoun with the verb 'to be', which is why we answer the question "Who's there?" by saying "It's me!" (or 'C'est moi!' in French)
There are three ways of responding to the comment 'I'm tired' with short answers. You can say:
"So am I."
"I am, too."
or
simply "Me too"
Or to respond to a statement such as "I like travelling", the short-answer responses are these:
"So do I"
"I do, too"
or simply "Me too".
And don't forget the negative responses - Neither do I, Neither am I, Neither can I etc etc ...or simply "Me neither".