3. What is Team Teaching?
Section 1: Introduction
• Two or more teachers working together to
plan, conduct, and evaluate the integrated
outcomes, curriculum, learning activities,
and assessments for the same group of
learners.
• Two or more instructors teaching the same
students at the same time within the same
classroom and sharing equal levels of
responsibility. John 3,16
4. Activity: Discuss
Section 1: Introduction
Talk about your experiences with
Working together.
As a student
As a teacher
As an observer
As an administrator
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5. Section 1: Introduction
Six Models of Team Teaching
• Traditional Team Teaching
• Collaborative Teaching
• Complementary/Supportive Team
Teaching
• Parallel Instruction
• Differentiated Split Class
• Monitoring Teacher
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6. Now check:
Traditional Team Teaching: Teachers actively share instruction to all
students.
Collaborative Teaching: Teachers exchange and discuss ideas and
theories in front of the learners.
Complementary/Supportive Team Teaching: One teacher teaches
the content; the other provides follow-up activities.
Parallel Instruction: Teachers teach the same material to different
groups.
Differentiated Split Class: Each teacher teaches a group based on
their learning needs.
Monitoring Teacher: One teacher instructs while the other monitors
student understanding. John 3,16
7. Activity: Discuss
What are your feelings about Team
Teaching? Have your ever taught by
using Team teaching? How have
experiences been positive, negative,
or mixed?
Which model would you consider you
could use? Why?
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8. Activity: Discuss
Identify your personal strengths
and weaknesses as an instructor.
Where will you and your team
teaching partner need to spend
your time?
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9. Next Steps
Read two articles:
Karin Goetz, “Perspectives on Team Teaching: A
Semester I Independent Inquiry for Dr. Michele
Jacobsen.”
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~egallery/goetz.html
Rebecca Benoit and Bridget Haugh, “Team Teaching
Tips for Foreign Language Teachers.”
http://iteslj.org/
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10. This is an adaptation from:
Washington State board
for community and
technical colleges. Team
teaching models
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Editor's Notes
The definitions of Team Teaching that we’ll be exploring in the following sections are: A group of two or more teachers working together to plan, conduct, and evaluate learning for the same group of learners. A working definition could be “Two or more instructors teaching the same students at the same time within the same classroom.”
Before moving ahead, take time as a team to discuss as honestly and openly as possible. Teaching teams are brought together in many different ways---some by choice and some by assignment. So, before continuing, explore your impressions and experiences with Team Teaching by referring to your own personal impressions as a student, a teacher, an observer and/or an administrator.
Now check your answers. Don’t be concerned if your answers don’t match – you’ll be working on each of these different models of Team Teaching in the sections to come.
Continue your discussion. Some team teaching experiences are excellent; others are not so positive. Talk about how you feel about team teaching, based on your personal experiences.
With your team teaching partner, talk about your strengths and weaknesses as an instructor. Do you excel at planning? Do you need work on communicating with others? Start evaluating the strengths your team possesses and where you predict you will need to spend more time building expertise.
If you haven’t already done so, please read Karin Goetz’s article, “Perspectives on Team Teaching” from the University of Calgary and eGallery and Rebecca Benoit and Bridget Haugh’s article, “Team Teaching Tips for Foreign Language Teachers” from The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. VII.
