Team Teaching at Siwanoy

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Team Teaching at Siwanoy

• Together Everyone Achieves More

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What is Team Teaching?

• Two or more teachers work in conjunction,
  planning, conducting, assessing, and evaluating
  the same group of students
• team work between two qualified instructors, who
  together make presentations to an audience Quinn
  and Kanter (1984)

May be referred to as Collaborative Teaching or
Co-Teaching
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2 Categories of Team Teachingfrom Exemplary
Student Scholarship Master of Teaching Program
Faculty of Education, Perspectives on Team
Teaching University of Calgary

• A.
• Two or more instructors teaching the same
  students at the same time within the same
  classroom
• B.
• Instructors work together but do not necessarily
  teach the same groups of students, nor
  necessarily at the same time

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How do we Team Teach in Pelham already? (Category
B.)

• Departmentalization
• Collaboration on grade projects
• Teachers planning together in K-5
• Weekly team meetings
• Prospect Hill 3 teachers, 2 classrooms, 56
  children
• Sharing students for small group instruction

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Team Teaching in Second Grade Category A. from
Exemplary Student Scholarship Master of Teaching
Program Faculty of Education, Perspectives on
Team Teaching University of Calgary

• Traditional Team/Collaborative Teaching
• Complimentary/Supportive Team Teaching
• Parallel Instruction
• Differentiated Split Class

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What We Bring to the Classroom

• 2 Experienced Teachers - total of 16 years
• Training in Nurtured Heart and Responsive
  Classroom
• Masters in Reading/ 5yrs as Reading Specialist
• Special Education and Literacy Masters (in
  process)
• Masters in Administration (in process)
• Shared philosophy of teaching
• Camaraderie
• Unique activities and routines
• Experience working with support instructors and
  aides in the classroom

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Advantages of Team Teachingfor the Students
(Culled from several case studies)

• Exposure to the views of more than one teacher
  permits the students to gain a mature level of
  understanding knowledge
• The cooperation between the two teachers models
  positive teamwork skills and attitudes
• Students witness and partake in a dynamic display
  of two minds and personalities
• Greater retention of knowledge
• Improved interpersonal skills
• Increase in time available for teacher to observe
  students while the other teacher in instructing
• Ability to work with small groups of students and
  grouping based on abilities
• More effective instruction time
• Attention from more than one teacher

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What will the day look like?

• Morning Meeting
• Literacy Block Computer Center, Listening
  Center, Smart Board Center, Reading Groups, Book
  Making Center, Library Center
• Snack
• Writing/Spelling
• Special
• Math Lead teacher instructing whole group and
  support teacher checking for understanding, small
  group support , math workshops
• Social Studies and Science
• Closing Circle

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What will the room look like?

• An educational architect working with the
  district will consult on the best design of the
  room, the equipment/materials needed, to provide
  the best educational use of space in a
  collaborative team teaching model.

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Progress Monitoring

• Joint parent meeting each trimester
• Newsletters
• Progress Monitoring Notebook
• Portfolio System
• Parent/teacher/teacher conferences after first
  and second trimesters

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Questions and Answers

• Wouldnt upper elementary be better suited for
  team teaching as these students are less likely
  to be distracted by too many children in one
  place?
• How will small group work be done without
  distracting the other group(s)?
• Is Team Teaching being offered only because of
  the influx of students from Colonial?
• How will you make certain each child is attended
  to?
• What will report cards and teacher conferences
  look like?
• What about small class size?
• What is the plan going forward?

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Further Questions

• How will specific learning and behavioral needs
  be addressed?

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Thank You