Explores key issues in designing and implementing responsible and effective co-teaching programs. Defines co-teaching and illustrates a variety of manifestations of the concept. Also discusses establishing collaborative co-teaching relationships, introducing co-teaching to stakeholders, and fitting co-teaching into more conventional school…

Discusses the successful use of team teaching techniques to solve the problems associated with junior high school student publications. (RL)

Discussion (including one teacher's journal entries) of a team-teaching experience involving a university English-as-a-Second-Language class of 27 touches on advantages and disadvantages and organizational approaches. (CNP)

This document, which is designed to showcase effective correctional educational programs and teaching techniques, contains descriptions of five teaching tips submitted by practicing correctional educators. Described first is a multidisciplinary team approach whereby teams of nurses, psychiatrists, social workers, academic teachers, counselors, and…

The purpose of this booklet is to provide strategies to help general and special education teachers, speech and language pathologists, school counselors, para-professionals, and administrators plan for and implement co-teaching during reading instruction in classrooms where a variety of learners are represented, including students with…

This paper discusses the benefits of the team approach to teaching mathematics to elementary children with visual impairments in inclusive settings and offers strategies for classroom teachers and team teaching. Strategies for classroom teachers include: (1) avoiding the use of words such as "this", "that", and "there", that will be meaningless to…

This book came about as a result of working directly alongside teachers working with challenging children and children with emotional behavioural disorders. These teachers (from Australia and the UK) work with children in mainstream and special education settings. Teachers spend a third of their waking and working day with children. Most teachers…

Discusses an approach to college instruction in which a faculty member designs a course, then teaches it with a student, evaluating the method in the context of other collaborative approaches that usually involve two-person faculty teams: peer coaching through classroom observation and team teaching. Experiences with this approach and the problems…

Two chapters of the book, "Toward Inclusive Classrooms," are abstracted here. The chapters concern team teaching a seventh-grade science class and developing a sixth-grade science exhibition. They show how teachers cooperated to plan for inclusion of students with disabilities, how difficulties were handled, evaluation procedures, and…

This manual presents the trainee's workbook and the trainer's guidelines for the fifth of six modules in a teacher inservice series developed to promote the unified effort of both regular and special education personnel in understanding and applying nationally recognized practices to implement fully inclusive education for students with diverse…

A collection of papers on teaching English listening comprehension includes: "The Use of Authentic Sound Materials for Beginners" (Anuska Nakic); "Empathetic Listening" (Mario Rinvolucri); "The Pedagogic Authenticity of a Text" (Henri Besse); "A Team-Teaching Approach to Lecture Comprehension for Overseas Students" (A. Dudley-Evans, T. F. Johns);…

This module, which is one in a series of performance-based teacher education learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers, deals with using the team teaching approach. The module consists of three learning experiences. The first learning experience discusses the principles and procedures involved in…

Suggests that competency-based supervision is essential to help student teachers develop competencies expected of full-time professionals. Effective supervision requires competencies in coordinating a team approach to instruction, long and short range planning, interpersonal relations and conference skills, evaluative techniques, instructional…

An approach to integrating classroom instruction of subject area content and a second language is outlined. In the integrated classroom, teams of language and content specialists bring their expertise to course planning, teaching, and assessment, and work together in the same classroom for each session. The approach was constructed by drawing on…

Study investigated whether/how teachers of a team-taught college introductory course in Portuguese met National Standards on teaching of culture. Teachers met many of the standards, but students had few opportunities to develop perspectives on cultural patterns and products. Use of the term "native culture" and the complexity of cultural education…