The pedagogical assumptions and teaching practices of learning community models reflect exemplary conditions for learning, so using these models with unprepared students seems desirable and worthy of investigation. This chapter describes the key role of faculty in creating active, integrative learning experiences for students in basic skills…

Teacher leaders assume a wide range of roles to support school and student success. Harrison and Killion describe 10 roles that teacher leaders can fulfill in their schools. As resource providers, they provide materials to help their colleagues. Instructional specialists help colleagues with instructional strategies, and curriculum specialists…

This paper describes two approaches to differentiated staffing. The first approach involved reorganizing teacher staffing by creating a career ladder to permit hierarchical staffing without freezing faculty in positions that would limit growth, fix rewards, and destroy morale. The career ladder allowed the use of teachers and paraprofessionals in…

Interaction in the teaching team, team status structure, and teachers' perceptions of the team's decision-making authority were investigated as important dimensions of the team-teaching organization. Relationships between these dimensions and the teacher's sense of his own influence and autonomy are described. Each of 17 teams in six team-teaching…

Co-teaching is intended to increase adult learners' access to faculty, build community, and enhance teachers' ability to deal with challenging issues. Teachers must overcome the mindset of authority, allow for more planning time, and negotiate differences with co-teachers. (SK)

Focuses on the roles of today's Title 1 reading teachers based on changing Title 1 guidelines in a team teaching model. Interprets reading teachers' roles with respect to the new provisions found in the Interim Report and Title 1. (Author/VWL)

Adolescents with learning disabilities are not educated in a vacuum. Successful programming for these students involves many school professionals working together to integrate their programs for the benefit of students with learning disabilities. Collaborative teaming probably can best be described as an attitude rather than a certain way of…

The roles of the principal and the lead teacher in a team are closely related in that the lead teacher serves the unit team in much the same way as the principal serves the entire building staff. The prime function of the lead teacher is instructional improvement, and his basic concerns center around the teaching team and children who comprise the…

Author presents the idea of short elective courses in different fields, related by a common theme, to replace semester-long team teaching.'' (SP)

Students with special needs are more likely to spend most or all of the school day in a typical classroom than they did in the past, when separate classrooms were the norm. As a result, teachers are faced with the challenge of teaching students with a wide array of learning needs. Marilyn Friend suggests that coteaching, a partnership in which a…

In this experiment it has been shown that team teaching can be effective for and acceptable to technician and higher-technician grade students, but there remains much work to be done in evaluating its successful components. (Author)

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

IMPROVEMENT OF THE TEACHING OF READING, WRITING, AND ARITHMETIC IN THE PRIMARY GRADES WAS SOUGHT. GOALS INCLUDED CREATING WARM, INVITING, AND ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCES, DEVELOPING DESIRABLE HABITS, SKILLS AND ATTITUDES, AND PROVIDING THE ENVIRONMENT AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES THAT WILL MEET THE INDIVIDUAL NEEDS OF CHILDREN FROM VARIED BACKGROUNDS. ALSO…