team teaching
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Team teaching
Take a moment...
Set normsStart with a discussion with your team teacher
What do you value in your classroom?
What structures would you prefer to employ?
- Lining up outside the class
- Opening with a prayer
- Starting with a learning log each lesson?
- When are boys allowed to get laptops?hh
- How would you dismiss the class?
What are you willing to compromise on?
Collaboratively decide what you expect in the classroom with your team teacher
Ensure you maintain these norms in your classroom even when one teacher is absent
• Reevaluate these norms to ensure they are effective for both you and your class
• Be honest with each other; if it doesn't work for you, tell your team teacher
Dos
Be considerate
Set norms
Be fair in terms of workload
Marking
Observation of students
Planning
Discipline
Tutorials
Time allocated to subjects
Value the other subject...in words and actions
Talk regularly...whatever works for you. Skype, email, calendar, meetings
If you're new at the process, or teaching, you will need to meet more often
Dont'sConsider your job to be done if you're not teaching your subject
Consider the class differently to a normal one...Bring other work to class, be late, etc.
Spend all your time on remote desktop
Value your subject over the other one
What do I do when my subject is not the focus of the lesson?
Do you really need to be a subject expert to
help students?
Spend time with groups
Ask questions...what are you doing?
How much have you done?
What areas have you covered?
How does this address the driving question?
Let's check this against the rubric...
What is your focus, what is your end product going to look like
How does this link to my subject area?
Run tutorials on your subject or swos
Link between lessons "big picture"
What are you doing right at this moment? (don't accept research as an answer)
what are your next steps?
Spend time in class with those with special needs
Learn about the other content area...eg encyclicals