#team teaching

[the-better-rainbow-unikitty]

i have just spent an hour looking for an article by an author that literally fucking EVERYONE was referencing in their works on team teaching (Sharon Maroney) but could not actually find the articles in question. Excuse me while I sob int he corner of my thesis :(

[aetactivities]

Techniques and Tasks in Team Teaching

6 models of co-teaching

Learn about team teaching and other co-teaching models. Explore the benefits and challenges of each model and learn strategies to help make

[onlinenotebank2021]

Teacher Centred Methods : Lecture Method, Demonstration Methods and Team Teaching

During the last few decades, there has been a vast change in the instructional process followed by teachers in the classroom. Initially, instruction was based on the behaviouristic approach which has shifted to humanistic and more recently is focused on constructivist approach. But still in many classrooms across the globe, teachers more often use teacher centric methods especially where the size…

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[rightonwoman]

#67

What if

when you went to school, you had a ‘home-base’ classroom with a homeroom teacher with a student support background.  this teacher did all the admin stuff: lockers, field trip forms, notes from parents.  they also team-teach with academic subject matter experts who rotate through the school from classroom to classroom: their job is a) to keep razor sharp, bleeding fresh up to date on the latest in their subject and b) to be dazzling and inventive and spark students’ interest in the subject with fun activities.  PLUS we could have skill-based teachers who have competency specific classrooms - there’s a research room and a research teacher, a visual arts/create room, a film/drama/represent room, an experiment room -- and in these rooms students do cross-curricular project based learning. 

[readysetgaikokujin]

I really hate when I’ve gone over with teachers that we will have class first thing in the morning, and I get there early the day of and make sure I’ve got everything ready-- and then they just disappear while I’m working and the bell rings and I’m left alone in the teacher’s room. The consequence after the bell rings and they’ve forgotten me? I don’t run after them. We reschedule.

The reason behind this is that it makes me feel respected when I get to walk alongside them to class, and it reinforces that it’s on them to bring me to class. If they don’t want me, I won’t go, it’s their ballgame.

I don’t ask for much, but I do ask that we meet at least the day before, and that we walk together so that I don’t have to rock up after the fact. Other than that, I’m probably going to bend over backwards for you happily.

[iwasyourteacher]

when i have to team teach with my frenemy

[teachinginreallife]

When I’m team-teaching with my friend

The beginning of the term:

Middle of the term:

The end of the term:

Vacation:

[kissing-kuma]

I inherited this one teacher from A in the Great April Teacher Changeover that at first A was like “She’s awesome!” and then “Well, she was terrible but I whipped her into shape.” She’s been awesome for me so far, even remembering to plan with me without the Eigo Tantou’s prodding and spending enough time so we can brainstorm TOGETHER and discuss what would work best and so far I have been SO EXCITED for every class I teach with her because we both know what needs to happen.

She’s also been strongly hinting at taking coffee breaks together, and I completely missed out on the first few hints since I don’t drink coffee and tend to reject offers of it without thinking. But today I took her up on it and suffered through drinking coffee for her company.

I feel like it’s a really interesting relationship because I get the vibe she kind of wants to badmouth A, but I can’t tell for sure, because it’s just all these oh-so-Japanese comments that are never really straightforward, just weirdly bringing up how busy A was, and how nice her predecessor was. I always try to shift the convo at least to “Your last school was really tough, huh?” because I think that might be the main reason for all of this. Karakuwa is paradise compared to the daily fights in some of A’s classes.

But I think that really shows how fickle the Japanese school environment can be for finding the right balance for team-teaching. Whether it’s language barriers in communication, lack of confidence on the Japanese teacher’s part, or just finding the right time to get everything done.

Anyway, I’m really glad this teacher came to Karakuwa. I think our team-teaching together has been really good for both of us. And I’m glad I finally picked up on the coffee time hints today. It ended with me angsting about my upcoming driving test on Thursday and half the staff room cheering me on for success. It was the sort of faculty room comradery I’ve been really missing lately since everyone’s been so busy with school sport events while I’ve been so very not busy.

Hopefully I can ride this vibes for the next few days of ES before test day.