Two Teachers, One Classroom : The Challenges and Rewards of Team-Teaching
department or school: Education, Faculty of
department or school: Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Davis, Samantha R.
issued: 2021-05-26T17:51:18Z
issued: 2021
description: The focus of this paper is to systematically and critically reflect on the implementation of team-teaching in my elementary school classroom over the past two years. The purpose being, to better understand the effectiveness of my team’s approach to team-teaching. From a careful reading of relevant literature, I develop a foundational understanding of team-teaching by examining a variety of operational definitions. In doing so, I highlight the synonymous and interchangeable nature of the terms “team-teaching”, “co-teaching”, “cooperative and collaborative teaching”, and “joint work”. Secondly, I unpack what the scholars share are the benefits and limitations of team-teaching, and the essential elements required for creating effective team-teaching arrangements. Taking what I learned from the literature, I critically reflect on my experiences as a team-teacher. By sharing my perspective on my team’s strengths and challenges, I outline what I have come to believe are the essential elements to forming an effective team-teaching classroom. I am hoping my experience can help others who are implementing team-teaching into their practice. Despite some challenges, the literature affirms that team-teaching is an enriching, valuable and effective way for two or more teachers to instruct a group of students.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/78444
note: Two Teachers, One Classroom: The Challenges and Rewards of Team-Teaching Samantha R. Davis Faculty of Education Curriculum and Leadership Wendy Poole and Lindsay Gibson May, 2021 TEAM-TEACHING: ARE TWO TEACHERS REALLY BETTER THAN ONE? 2 Contents Abstract ........................................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Problem Statement ................................................................................................................................... 4 Objective ................................................................................................................................................... 6 Literature Review .......................................................................................................................................... 7 History of Team-teaching ......................................................................................................................... 8 Terminological Framework ..................................................................................................................... 9 Benefits and Limitations ....................................................................................................................... 16 Essential Elements for Successful Team-Teaching .............................................................................. 21 Summary of the Literature ................................................................................................................... 28 Reflections on My Team-Teaching Experience .......................................................................................... 30 My Teaching Context ...............................................................................…
has type: Graduating Project
spatial: British Columbia
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0398181
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
is part of: University of British Columbia. EDCP 590
subject: team-teaching
subject: co-teaching
subject: co-teacher
subject: cooperative teaching
subject: collaborative teaching
subject: joint teaching
subject: elementary and middle school
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78444