Lee Schulman’s term “pedagogical solitude” captures a pervasive problem in academic teaching: many of us teach in isolation, with few opportunities for intellectual or creative exchange with fellow ...
Most students expect to see one professor at the front of the classroom throughout the semester. But for those attending Harvey Mudd College, a STEM-focused institution in California, it’s not unusual ...
It’s a constant tap-dance to keep a roomful of 5-year-olds focused and engaged during a kindergarten math lesson. Stevenson Elementary’s kindergarten team teachers stay perfectly in step. Festooned ...
Whittier Elementary School principal Andrea Lang Sims interacts with a student in Mesa, Arizona, which embraced team teaching about seven years ago. Credit: Matt York/ Associated Press The Hechinger ...
Team Teaching offers rich possibilities for interdisciplinary learning both within and among departments/programs. Specifically, it allows faculty to offer courses in which different disciplines, ...
English teacher Vatricia Harris came to Westwood High School in Mesa, Ariz. eight years ago as an experienced—and disillusioned—educator. “I came here because I was trying to figure out if I was going ...
CONCORD, MI – As school begins on Wednesday, Aug. 21, Concord Community Schools is piloting a new team-based teaching model for second through ninth grades. The initiative aims to redesign the typical ...
In my more than 40 years of teaching college, I’ve found that as I’m imparting knowledge to others, I learn lessons myself. The greatest lessons that I’ve learned, however, are in team-taught courses ...