Working with a teaching partner deepens and enhances the process of reflection. Examples from a team-taught master's program show how team teaching affects reflection and reflection in turn informs and improves teaching. (SK)

Describes a method of teaching large sections of college introductory anthropology by members of the anthropology faculty giving their best lectures. Presents details of how such a course was initiated, operated, and evaluated at the University of Pittsburgh. (KH)

Provides an overview of an interdisciplinary unit on rivers which the author taught with other teachers. Discusses the role of literature in that unit, and surveys some adolescent river novels. (TB)

The team approach to developing and implementing English for special purposes (ESP) programs is described. Team teaching is defined as several teachers strictly following the same program even though they teach different groups of students. In the team teaching situation, it is essential that the course coordinator and teachers confer with each…

The Interprofessional Commission of Ohio is a partnership of eight state professional associations, six professional schools and colleges at Ohio State University, and three theological schools. Focus is on ethical issues common to the helping professions, changing societal values and the professions, and training in intercollaborative skills. The…

Reading instructors have valuable expertise to share with writing instructors to improve the writing ability of students. Writing instructors often give reading assignments to provide topics for students' essays or discussion, without understanding the reading process. A reading teacher can (1) show the writing instructor how to determine the…

Contends that shared teaching is an innovative way to balance teaching and research. Provides a review of the literature on the topic and examines two distinct shared teaching models. Proposes opportunities for further study looking at whether shared teaching is more effective in graduate or undergraduate courses, and whether some areas of…

Several types of boundaries divide individuals. These boundaries can be classified as: (1) those created by a physical barrier and/or geographical distance; (2) institutional boundaries; and (3) professional boundaries. Sometimes boundaries play themselves out in a real situation, for example, in a collaborative teaching project involving faculty…

Curricular and extracurricular strategies are suggested for achieving a valuable interdisciplinary framework for Black student programs. Innovation, eclecticism, and creativity are cited as advantages of the interdisciplinary approach. (Author/MC)

Discusses burnout among teaching librarians and suggests cooperative learning methods in bibliographic instruction classes as a way to avoid burnout. A workshop is described that was developed at SUNY College at Oswego to teach other librarians collaborative and cooperative teaching methods, and background materials on group work in education are…

The concept of team teaching and how real estate education might profit from its use are considered. Contents are as follows: (1) an explanation of this concept for organizing instruction, alternative modes for structuring teaming, a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in a team approach to instruction, and the research that…

Interdisciplinary teaching helps students see how knowledge and tools within individual disciplines can be brought together to address problems or issues of concern to mankind. Team teaching within seminars allows students to witness and engage in disciplinary interrelations. (MSE)

When a communication instructor first taught at a Catholic university, she learned that lecturing was considered the only respected way to teach. Perhaps the reason that lecturing is preferred at Catholic universities is the extant masculine orientation of the Catholic Church and organizations associated with it. At Catholic universities, the most…

A collaborative teaching model that replaces the hierarchical graduate teaching assistant (TA)/tutor structure can be used to train basic writing TAs with a pedagogy that stresses reflection and dialogue. Usually, new graduate students tutor for a semester in Basic Writing classrooms and then later move on to teach their own classes; in this case,…

An approach to teaching particularly well-suited to communication courses seeks to involve students in the learning process more directly by incorporating team teaching in communication courses--not by professors but by students. Groups of students in each class form into teams with the purpose of setting goals and planning projects for furthering…