Point Loma Nazarene College in San Diego, California, provides special academic support for a small group of its provisionally admitted students through its Program Quick Start, a collaborative, cross-disciplinary project involving the fields of literature and biology. Students meet for up to 5 or 6 hours daily for 5 weeks during the summer as…

The dynamics of planning together, team teaching, troubleshooting problems, reflecting on and assessing a program's impact on students, and navigating the paths of institutional proposals and approvals together has become a process of professional growth for 2 professors who developed a summer program for provisionally admitted students. Point…

The success of Computer Science Applications 109, Information Retrieval Skills, at Doane College (Nebraska) is the result of a team effort. Until the fall of 1993, the class was taught by a single instructor. During the training of a new librarian, it was discovered that a team approach might benefit the students as well as the library faculty,…

Two instructors with different approaches to writing collaborated in the preparation of a junior-level advanced college composition course. Both instructors were concerned about the applicability of the "workshop" in teaching composition, and about the question of how to address authority in the workshops. Students were asked to respond…

Describes change in the New Mexico State University teacher training program which involved integration of three previously separate courses into a coordinated sequence developed and taught by an interdisciplinary team. Included microteaching centers in elementary schools and student evaluation based on demonstrable behaviors. (JT)

Teaching English composition and interpersonal communication concurrently enhances students' opportunities to learn and apply communication skills. Since many of these skills are common to both courses of study, not only is learning reinforced, but the skills can be presented and practiced in a variety of ways. More important, English composition…

The University of California at Irvine has formed subject area teams composed of paraprofessionals in order to provide a comprehensive approach to skills development programming and tutoring in subject areas. The goal of the program is to facilitate retention and academic success of students. Three teams that represent the broad discipline areas…

Arguing that reform of undergraduate education is more urgent at a time of retrenchment and will require making teaching a collegial activity if it is to compete with research, the author proposes a reorganization into teaching clusters of perhaps 15 faculty, 10 graduate students, and 200 students in a "theme center." (JT)

The following articles on the performance of foreign students in English universities are included: (1) "Team Teaching and the Role of the ESP Teacher" by P. Skehan; (2) "Performance of Overseas Postgraduate Students: A Management Teacher's View" by J. C. Watt; (3) "Experiences of a Postgraduate Physics Course Tutor with…

This investigation encompassed the implementation and evaluation of Rotating Peer Supervision in a college level science teaching methods course. Rotating Peer Supervision is defined as a process whereby students teach other students and themselves about teaching through observation, analysis and evaluation of their own teaching, as well as that…

This paper proposes making speech communication more interdisciplinary and, in particular, combining political science and speech in a team-taught course in election campaigning. The goals, materials, activities, and plan of such a course are discussed. The goals include: (1) gaining new insights into the process of contemporary campaigns and…

This collection of articles by practicing teachers presents case histories of schools (mostly in Great Britain) which have made use of such new materials and methods as audiovisual aid units, programed instruction, team teaching, and closed circuit television. (JK)

Describes the membership, responsibilities, problems, and group dynamics involved in the team approach to the design and development of courses for Britain's Open University. The team selects content and creates teaching materials using various media (correspondence texts, television and radio programs, summer school, home experiment kits,…

Self-reported learning in a 12-week interdisciplinary health team training experience at the University of Nevada, Reno, was measured. Analysis of 14 students from seven disciplines in three settings shows there was significant learning in the areas of team skills and processes and in knowledge of and abilities in client communication but not in…

An independent studies program (ISP) in the basic medical sciences developed at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry involves 16 students as a learning team working with 10 medical teachers as a teaching team. The program offers an alternative to the lecture-laboratory-conference traditional format. (Author/LBH)