Purpose: This paper reports on the adaptation of an existing interpretive and critical research methods course in nursing for postgraduate student health professionals in a School of Population Health and Clinical Practice. Methods: A cyclical approach of inquiry, reflection and planning was undertaken by the teaching team to make changes to the…

Much has been written about collaboration and co-teaching in secondary settings, including the importance of understanding one's partner's teaching approach; determining readiness to co-teach; clarifying roles, responsibilities, and expectations; scheduling shared planning time; and effective communication, including constructive dialogue and…

This manuscript describes the efforts of several instructors who incorporated videoconferencing in their teacher education courses at two large universities in the southeastern United States. Professors preparing teachers to teach elementary and middle school examined their interactive videoconference experiences linking preservice teachers with…

Describes the successes and problems of one instructor's use of a pedagogy class to initiate teaching assistants in writing instruction with the benefit of an experienced instructor as a mentor. (HTH)

Discusses how language teacher trainees can be brought to appreciate the need for understanding language learning theories and for integrating those theories into classroom practice. Suggests that this can be done by a fully integrated curriculum involving a team teaching approach so that theory is seen to arise out of practice. (SED)

An innovative curriculum, Twentieth Century Man, takes one traditional course from each of three academic departments and modifies the content presentation so that overlapping themes are emphasized, developed in parallel, and synthesized across disciplines in a team-taught seminar. This cost-effective approach integrates concepts while retaining…

The article suggests three strategies for the audiologist and speech/communication specialist to use in assisting the preschool teacher to implement student's individualized education program: (1) demonstration teaming, (2) dual teaming; and (3) rotation teaming. (CL)

Describes a high school chemistry program which uses a team approach. Organizational structure, instructional strategies, student involvement, and outcomes (including the development of a third year of chemistry using an independent study approach) are considered. (JN)

Team management is presented as a viable, long range alternative to autocratic organizational models in education. The author identifies the components of successful programs. (MD)

The effects of using one or two trainers to elicit verbal responses with two profoundly mentally retarded females, 15 and 22 years old, were studied. Results for both acquisition and pre- and post-training favored in the dual trainers condition. (SEW)

Describes the Agricultural Technical Institute of Ohio State University's human sexuality course, which uses team teaching and various instructional techniques including small group work, lectures, independent study, and individual presentations. Found the approach effective in increasing factual knowledge and personal participation. (DMM)

A physical diagnosis course is described that introduced an interviewing segment with patient simulation at a medical school where medical interviewing or communications skills were not in the required curriculum. Physicians' responsibility for the quality of the physician-patient relationships was stressed. (MSE)

Describes a graduate course in English that brought together parts of graduate education that are too often left isolated from one another by forming a "teaching company" of graduate teaching assistants who simultaneously grappled with the same set of pedagogical and literary issues on a weekly basis. (AEA)

Describes the organization and the benefit of using the team-teaching approach in a technical writing course for chemical engineering students. (RL)

Describes how Wayland (Massachusetts) High School implemented the Trump Plan for team teaching in the early 1960s and how the school gradually abandoned the program because of staff turnover, teacher dissatisfaction, lack of administrative support, and loss of funds. (RW)