Team teaching

Take a moment...

Set normsStart with a discussion with your team teacher

What do you value in your classroom?

What structures would you prefer to employ?

- Lining up outside the class

- Opening with a prayer

- Starting with a learning log each lesson?

- When are boys allowed to get laptops?hh

- How would you dismiss the class?

What are you willing to compromise on?

Collaboratively decide what you expect in the classroom with your team teacher

Ensure you maintain these norms in your classroom even when one teacher is absent

• Reevaluate these norms to ensure they are effective for both you and your class

• Be honest with each other; if it doesn't work for you, tell your team teacher

Dos

Be considerate

Set norms

Be fair in terms of workload

Marking

Observation of students

Planning

Discipline

Tutorials

Time allocated to subjects

Value the other subject...in words and actions

Talk regularly...whatever works for you. Skype, email, calendar, meetings

If you're new at the process, or teaching, you will need to meet more often

Dont'sConsider your job to be done if you're not teaching your subject

Consider the class differently to a normal one...Bring other work to class, be late, etc.

Spend all your time on remote desktop

Value your subject over the other one

What do I do when my subject is not the focus of the lesson?

Do you really need to be a subject expert to

help students?

Spend time with groups

Ask questions...what are you doing?

How much have you done?

What areas have you covered?

How does this address the driving question?

Let's check this against the rubric...

What is your focus, what is your end product going to look like

How does this link to my subject area?

Run tutorials on your subject or swos

Link between lessons "big picture"

What are you doing right at this moment? (don't accept research as an answer)

what are your next steps?

Spend time in class with those with special needs

Learn about the other content area...eg encyclicals