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What are teacher teams?

What do teacher teams
mean to you?
Have you ever
experienced a teacher
team before?
Turn and talk with a
partner or in a group and
discuss!

Teacher Team Goals

Provide leadership
Collaboration
Establish teacher role
Teachers involved on a full-time basis
Teachers convey a sense of caring
Reorganization of traditional department structure

How can I implement this

in my school my first year
of teaching?

Teacher Team Tips

Leadership development with focus on
group/facilitation
Defining teacher needs, identifying problems
and finding resources to solve
Time management

More Tips
Discipline-specific staff teams
Create term- based integrated units
Literacy in all content areas/
common benchmarks
Student teams matched with
teacher teams/ differentiated
groups
Peer observation and feedback

Interdisciplinary Teaming

What is Interdisciplinary
Teaming?
Promotes the integration of literacy across content areas
They can examine skills that are necessary across content
areas and determine common benchmarks and strategies to
use across the disciplines
Allows students to see the connections among disciplines
Encourages collaboration and opportunities for teams of
teachers to look at student work and talk about individual
students who need help

Interdisciplinary teaching teams encourage

common and consistent expectations for student
behavior and use classroom management
strategies, both of which have provided a
positive environment and kept discipline issues
to a minimum

Team Teaching Scenario

The school you are teaching in supports team
teaching, your school has two teams with a
teacher from each discipline in each group.
Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies

Your team has to collaborate and come up

with a plan to connect each subject into every
class. How will your team do this?