Team Teaching – A Novel Learning Process

Teaching is called as the blessed profession justSupportive team teaching: Supportive team
because it gives an opportunity to develop theteaching takes place when one teacher takes up
next generation. Students always think theirthe responsibility of teaching while the other
teacher is the most knowledgeable person; theteacher takes up the responsibility of enhancing
reason behind this is the teaching process, asthe grasping power, study skills and other follow
teaching process also enables learning. Educationup activities.
sector has always given the society with greatAnalogous team teaching: This form distributes
eminent personalities and thus is responsiblethe students into two groups and each teacher
developing the society. However education sectorteaches her own group. Such format of teaching
itself has undergone various changes in the dueis more or less used while project formations
course of time and teaching is no exception.where students can work/study and teachers can
Team teaching actually means a team of teachingjust lend their helping hand if required.
sharing the same group of students in theSplit team teaching: Spilt team teaching is similar
process of teaching. This concept was pioneeredto analogous team teaching. But in split team
by William M. Alexander who is also known asteaching the class is separated into smaller groups
‘father of middle school' in the year 1963.according to students' caliber and then the
Team teaching also involves two or moreteachers take extra efforts on those groups who
teachers teaching at the same time or atrequire help in some subjects. While one teacher
different time to the same group of students.explains the concepts other teacher tries to take
Today many grade level middle schools followa follow-up.
team teaching with various techniques, let's haveMonitoring team teaching: Monitoring team teaching
a look.takes place when one teacher is busy teaching
Conventional team teaching: In this processwhile other teacher keeps a keen eye on the
teachers share their task and responsibilities. Forstudents and their behavior.
instance: while one teacher is busy teaching other,Team teaching requires lots of planning in order to
manages other techniques like a PPT (Power Pointexecutive efficient team teaching. It is suggested
Presentation) while the teacher who is teachingthat every team teaching members should meet
aids this technique. The roles can be interchangedat least 4 to 5 times per 45 minutes. Teachers
with the mutual consent.that actively participate in recurrent mutual
Mutual team teaching: Mutual team teaching as theplanning time shows positive attitude towards
name suggest is processed with mutual consentteaching profession. According to the research
of the teachers. Teachers design the conceptteam teaching groups must not contain more 120
together and exchange their ideas in front of thestudents. This helps in enhancing performance of
students; through this process students feel themthe students and goes easier for the teachers
as a part the teaching and learning process.too.