Describes a successful college composition program that reduces writing anxiety and increases individual attention to students by pairing an advanced student writer with a faculty member as team teachers. (MM)

Suggested ideas for the effective use of the student teacher in the early stages of the assignment include: allowing the student teacher to work with small groups of students; team teaching at least one unit; and having the student teacher prepare a special activity related to one of the subject areas. (JN)

Provides specific suggestions to music teachers on preparing their students to view an opera broadcast on television, including use of other teachers or community personnel to provide background information. Approaches are outlined for introducing students to an opera's plot, music, design, costumes, makeup, lighting, and staging. (SJL)

To determine how an Individually Guided Education (IGE) school structure may constrain teachers' work, four components of that structure were investigated in this ethnographic study of two five-person teaching teams: the curriculum; the team concept; the use of a team leader; and the open area design. (Author/SJL)

Students between the ages of 10-14 are going through tremendous physical changes and shifting from great dependence on parents to a strong sense of independence. Building an interdisciplinary curriculum around these students' needs, taught by teaching teams in schools administered at the site level, can prove very successful. (Author/PGD)

Describes a chemistry course for liberal education college students, characterized by team teaching and application of knowledge to present problems and issues. (CS)

Presented are the advantages of team teaching--continuous in-service, opportunities for teamwork, development of better programs, better utilization of time, better understanding of human growth, more exposure to more resources, and more opportunities for students to develop rapport with teachers. (KC)

Describes an experimental course in communication arts covering reading and language arts from kindergarten to grade l2 designed to promote cooperative learning between the special educator and the classroom teacher. (CM)

The Classroom Human Resources Interview was developed to examine children's perceptions of all human resources--teachers, peers, and other adults--available in team-teaching classrooms. (MP)

A ten-step approach is presented by which two teachers can implement their own team teaching arrangement. Advantages, disadvantages, planning, scheduling, and room design are considered. (SJL)

Career and business education should include instruction in economic awareness, with cooperating teachers from other disciplines offering courses or conducting workshops in economic concepts. The author suggests class activities and a cooperative economic awareness and occupational knowledge guidance program for business students. (MF)

Discusses basic assumptions about schools and about children that make the shift to inclusive practices difficult. Describes how school teams can have productive conversations (focusing on children's and teacher's needs) organized around advocacy, as they examine student work to determine effective instruction. Discusses organizational structures…

Resources allocated by the New South Wales (NSW) Department of School Education (Australia) are inadequate for teacher librarians to carry out effective Cooperative Program Planning and Teaching (CPPT) and is doomed to failure. Describes the origins of CPPT, relief from face-to-face teaching, a comparison of conditions in Canadian and NSW schools,…

Discusses interdisciplinary teaching teams as one approach to integrating several subjects in a curriculum. Presents activities for an interdisciplinary unit on energy and the human body that involve science, health, mathematics, music, and physical education. (JRH)

Many older, working students at metropolitan universities have developed skills to function effectively within international work groups. Teaming these students with faculty members as "learner experts" to aid in developing course content or to deliver innovative curricultural experiences may help keep courses up-to-date, relevant, and exciting.…