Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Team teaching - a pedagogical technique that shifts the role of instruction from the individual to a team - provides students with the opportunity to take a more active role in learning. Author Francis J. Buckley explains how and why team teaching works and provides a comprehensive review of research material with practical applications. The book covers the nature, purpose, types, history, and evaluation of team teaching, as well as the resources needed and the roles of teachers, students, and administrators. The author compares this teaching approach with traditional methods seeking to strengthen its appeal to initiates. Team Teaching: What, Why, and How is the fruit of 30 years of team teaching in graduate school, religious education, sociology, psychology, and elementary school.
Synopsis
In this book, Francis J Buckley explains how and why team teaching works, and provides a comprehensive review of research material, from which many practical applications are drawn.
Table of Contents
What is team teaching? Pooling talents. Variations on the theme. Descriptions and definitions. Long ago and far away. Yesterday -- Why team teach? Misconceptions. Advantages for teachers. Disadvantages for teachers. Advantages for students. Disadvantages for students. Advantages for administrators. Disadvantages for administrators -- How design a program? Preliminaries. Planning the team teaching project -- For which students? Student factors. Large groups. Small groups. Outside the classroom. Discipline -- Who picks the team? How? Selecting the team. Prerequisites. Getting started -- What types of teams? Authority-directed teams. Self-directed teams. Coordinated teams. -- In what fields? Single-discipline teams. Multi-discipline teams. School-within-a-school teams -- How lead the team? Leadership tasks. Leadership styles. Sources of leadership. Leadership qualities -- How handle conflict on the team? Rise and resolution of conflict. Sources of conflict. -- How train the team? Educational background. In-service education. Workshops and other training helps. Time management. Lectures and discussions. Morale -- How make decisions as a team? Styles of decision-making. Systems approach. Objectivity. Subjectivity -- How evaluate the team? Assessment. Evaluating the impact of team teaching on the students. Learning outcomes. Grading. Evaluating the impact of team teaching on the team itself. Problems. Comparative evaluation -- How improve the team? Learning outcomes. Teaching outcomes. Systematic steps to take. Classroom performance. Interaction analysis. In-service programs. Support systems -- How support the team? Financing. Physical facilities. Equipment. Time. Personnel -- What are the common problems and potentials? Potentials. Problems.