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Team Teaching: An Innovative Approach to Secondary Education

Team Teaching: What is it?

-An innovative approach to pedagogy in which two teachers conduct a class together as a team. A typical team might consist of one experienced teacher and one young teacher, or one foreign volunteer and one local counterpart.

Advantages:

• Helps integrate new teachers into the department

• Strengthens working relationships

• Enables teachers from different backgrounds to exchange ideas

• Allows experienced teachers to mentor younger teachers

• Reduces disciplinary issues in the classroom

• Allows each teacher to do what they do best

In the event one of the teachers is a foreign volunteer:

• Inserts a native English speaker into the classroom

• Provides students with a new cultural perspective

• Local teachers can translate directions and important information that students might not otherwise understand (especially younger learners)

• Volunteers improve their language proficiency

• Local teachers improve their English proficiency

Disadvantages:

• Requires more planning and cooperation than a normal lesson

• Always the risk that one member of the team does less work than the other (or that one person tries to dominate the other)

• May expose disagreements when it comes to teaching style/methodology

• One teacher has to accommodate another teacher in his or her classroom and make the necessary adjustments

Recommendations:

• Be honest with one another

• Take time to get to know one another on a personal level

• Balance the workload

• Appreciate what each one of you does the best

• Agree to disagree