Describes an experience using students as assistants in a simulation-based instructional unit of a large introductory American government class. The assistants had participated in the simulation as students and came back to serve as part of an independent study project. The assistants facilitated the use of simulation in a large class where it…

Successful graduates in today's competitive business environments must possess sound interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively in team situations within, and across, disciplines. However, developing these skills within the higher education curriculum is fraught with organisational and pedagogical difficulties, with many teachers not…

Contract grading, team teaching, and demonstrations facilitate student's active involvement and enjoyment of college introductory psychology courses. (Author/JR)

Describes a plan to give journalism students three professional points of view concerning the news within one course. (KS)

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)

At MacMurray, a liberal arts college, nursing faculty participate in teaching general education courses. Despite initial resistance from nonnursing faculty and students, the nursing faculty were able to model the importance of liberal arts for nursing majors, integrate academic content into nursing courses, improve students' communication skills,…

Reports on a study of university teachers working in teaching teams. The study was based on interviews with 15 team members. Considers how their practice matches what is claimed to be scholarly and collaborative in the literatures of scholarship in teaching and teamwork. Expands a model of scholarship in teaching to include the scholarship of…

Presents a model of collective teaching and learning as a way to build deep learning of science concepts while learning about alternative ways to teach the same subject matter. Articulates coteaching/cogenerative dialoguing in terms of activity theory and the associated first-person research methodology that has been developed as a method for…

Suggests an integrated approach to make science teaching and learning more effective, interesting and motivating to students. Argues that team teaching by physics and geology departments enables students to learn concepts and principles of physics and apply them to solve geological problems facing the local community. Reports that a typical…

In 1991, as an experiment, the Director of the Writing Center at Siena College (a comprehensive college with a Franciscan tradition, located in a suburb of Albany, New York), agreed to team-teach a "Scientific Writing" course with a colleague who is a biologist. As they worked together, it appeared that for the biologist, knowledge was…

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…

Team learning techniques and the creation of educational forms which bring differing individuals into dynamic interaction probably may make students more self-directed and significantly heighten their intellectual consciousness as well. (Author)

Examines the results of a team teaching approach used in a freshman English literature course at Rutgers College. (RB)