The article discusses how the collaborative relationships of classroom, remedial, and special education teachers might be improved to develop specialized reading programs for low achieving and handicapped students. A decision-making framework based on levels of intensity of instruction is offered for the stages of the consultative process.…

Proposes that the nature and need of the learner dictate decisions about who teaches arts and what an arts education should be. Maintains that teaching partnerships be established within the arts education community to revitalize the arts curriculum and outlines a model for a school arts program. (TRS)

Describes the implementation of a content area writing program in a middle school. Observes that many teachers were resistant to the task and passed their frustration on to the English teachers. However, most were pleased with the improvement in students' writing due to the increase in the amount of required writing. (SRT)

A small-group method of teaching mathematical models and methods in a Scottish technological institute uses team teaching and emphasizes the student's role in peer evaluation and group problem solving. (MSE)

Explains two major methods of improving university-level social work curricula when budget restrictions prevent hiring additional qualified faculty: exploiting people resources (including faculty and staff in related and unrelated areas, former students, agency field supervisors, community members) and exploiting media resources (including books,…

This paper examines the organizational changes introduced in two elementary schools to create unitary (desegregated) classrooms. The different models adopted by the two schools--departmentalization and team teaching--are considered as expressions of their patterns of interaction, behavior, and values. (Part of a theme issue on educational…

Trained nonphysician teaching-associates teach the essentials of the male genital-rectal examination to medical students in a model program developed at the University of Iowa. The teaching associates teach in pairs; one serves as the simulated patient and the other as the examiner. Training of the teaching associates is discussed. (JMD)

The renewed interest in general education in colleges is addressed in this discussion that also considers the problems associated with core curriculums and distribution requirements. A team teaching structure with an interdisciplinary orientation that also considers the needs of different student populations is proposed. (Author/JMD)

Describes four models for grouping in cooperative teaching settings with a regular and a special educator. Common coteaching issues such as grading and classroom management are addressed. Charts provide a framework for lesson planning in coteaching settings. (DB)

Outlines issues of personality factors/communication style, teaching style/philosophy, and classroom management style that should be explored by teachers before they embark on a collaborative venture into inclusion, where special and general education teachers team for extended periods of the school day. (SR)

Examines the issue of appropriate methodology for teaching English as a foreign language for differing sociocultural contexts. The article, based on the experiences of a team of teachers from a wide variety of teaching backgrounds, also examines the extent of the need for awareness raising in relation to learner backgrounds and teachers' varying…

Describes implementation of interdisciplinary middle school environmental science curriculum units and factors associated with successful implementation. Notes that strong principal support; structural components such as the teachers having students in common and a common planning time; a strong, intact team; and time for concentrated curriculum…

Examines how preservice and inservice teachers relate to working cooperatively with school librarians in the instructional process, and how attitude components form and change. A study found no difference between the attitudes of preservice and inservice teachers. School size and teachers' knowledge about librarians and library education were…

Two factors, inclusion and diversity, have resulted in new collaboration between special educators and general educators and implementation of coteaching arrangements. This paper discusses the coteaching model, including various forms of coteaching and reported effectiveness with students with disabilities. Noted are frequent accounts in the…

The team teaching experiences of teachers in special education courses at the higher education level are recounted. The differences in the teaching of the courses are examined and context, content, and learner factors that impact team teaching are identified. Ways to facilitate and prepare teachers for team teaching at the university level are…