A trial of team teaching in a graduate business course at Washington University is described by the two faculty men who conducted it. (Editor)

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…

A major factor in the failure to successfully implement an innovation such as team teaching, is the absence of a mechanism to identify and treat difficulties arising from the effort to implement the innovation. The hypothesis was tested that teachers who are ambivalent toward team teaching and teachers who experience frustration in attempting to…

Criticizes traditional team teaching, describes how the teaching method at the New School of Liberal Arts at Brooklyn College is more valid by discussing two of the courses concerned with the Age of Revolutions, that in Science and in Literature, and explains how they interrelate. (Author/RK)

Describes a two-semester interdisciplinary course bringing together the history and literature of the United States to provide as complete a record of the American experience as could be found. (HOD)

Discusses the use of a co-teaching approach in a calculus-based, first-year, elementary physics class. Presents student questionnaire responses along with a discussion of the techniques, advantages, and disadvantages of this method of teaching. (MLH)

The fifteen articles in this anthology examine the process of collaboration as it fits into questions of gender. Articles include: "Educate, Organize, and Agitate: A Historical Overview of Feminist Collaboration in Great Britain and America, 1640-1930" (Melodie Andrews); "Beyond Feminism: An Intercultural Challenge for Transforming the Academy"…

This paper discusses the rationale for a new course in the history of American protest music which was offered during 1999 at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Ohio. Noting that the course was team taught by a U.S. history professor and a librarian with expertise in the area, the paper states that the course aimed to survey U.S. history through…

Describes trend toward team hiring in academic marketplace. (IR)

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…

An interdisciplinary team from various college allied health departments implemented Project AGE: Alliance for Gerontology Education to develop content to infuse in courses on the themes of age and culture, assistive technology, collaboration, and consumer health education. One goal was to foster interaction among allied health students to prepare…

Discusses what team teachers--one English and the other business management--learned from planning an interdisciplinary course, from developing the curriculum, and from their classroom experiences. Offers guidance for interdisciplinary teaching, a model for bridging business and literature, and a model that can be extended to other disciplines.…

Presents a summary of insights gained by the authors after a semester of collaborative teaching. Emphasizes pedagogical and administrative insights. (Author/ASK)

A description of collaborative teaching in an online course shows the combined challenges of virtual classrooms and team teaching were faced. Teachers and learners adopted new roles, and new teaching structures were created to provide focus for learning in an asynchronous environment. (SK)