Student Success through Team Teaching Jodi ClarkMiller amp Nora Way Faculty Division of Arts Education amp Business March 14 2017 Team Members Education Teaching experience Full Time Faculty ID: 760780
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The Road Less Travelled: Student Success through Team Teaching
Jodi Clark-Miller & Nora Way (Faculty) Division of Arts Education & BusinessMarch 14, 2017
Slide2Team Members
EducationTeaching experienceFull Time FacultyCross disciplinary appointment
Education Teaching experienceSemi-retiredPart-time faculty
JODI
NORA
Slide3Where in the world is Medicine Hat?
Google, 2017
Slide4Saamis Teepee
(Peters,
n.d
)
Slide5Welcome to Medicine Hat College
Medicine Hat College provides education that prepares students for further studies, careers and life. Our people are passionate about unleashing the potential of every student- intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and socially. Through every encounter we have with students- and all that we do- we seek to recognize and encourage their potential as learners, workers and global citizens.
Flickr.com, 2017
Slide6Welcome to Medicine Hat College
Opportunities to Learn
Degrees in partnership with Alberta universitiesUniversity transfer allowing students to start degrees hereCertificate, diploma, and applied degree programs for careers and employmentCollege preparation
Apprenticeship trades
Continuing studies for career enhancement and recruitment
Conservatory of Music and Dance
English as a Second Language
Campuses in Medicine Hat and Brooks
Slide7Our Situation
University Transfer Sociology Course: Current Social Issues
Students:
1
st
and 2
nd
year University Transfer Students (Arts, Sciences, and Education)
Diploma students – Addictions Counselling, Social Work, Child and Youth Care Counsellor, Occupational/Physical Therapist Assistant, and Speech-Language Pathologist Assistant.
Slide8Team Teaching: Operational Definitions
Team-teaching
“Two or more instructors are teaching the same students at the same time within the same classroom” (Goetz, 2000).
Co-teaching
“The instructors work together but do not necessarily teach the same groups of students nor necessarily teach at the same time” (Goetz, 2000).
Our experience has been a combination of team and co-teaching.
We are presently teaching this course for the 3
rd
time.
Slide9Faculty Perspective
Positives
Breadth of experiencesEducationalProfessionalPersonalInterdisciplinaryReciprocity of mentoringInnovation in evaluationBrainstormingAffirmation/Validation
Challenges
Open Communication
Sharing successes and frustrations
Commitment
Time
Trust *
Availability
Workload
Triangulation
Slide10Students – Review of Literature
Challenges
ConfusionDecreases focusLess substantive and rigorous(Bucci and Trantham, 2014)
Positives
Different perspectives – encourages deeper engagement (Woods, 2007)
Expanded critical thinking (Hoare, et. al., 2008)
Collective dialogue (Game and Metcalfe, 2009)
Slide11Student Perspective
Diversity and experiences make the topics and classroom interesting
Styles are different but have not created confusion in expectations
Assignment and grading expectations are clearly communicated
Rarely do we communicate with a student without including the other instructor
Students have adapted to different styles
The students understand that we are a team
Students know our schedule and we stress contact format
Slide12Lessons Learned
Outline topics
Outline schedule
Design evaluation methods
Agree on rigor
Meet often prior to course
Communicate frequently
Equity in workload
Have fun and encourage each other
Slide13References
Bucci, L. & Trantham, S. (2014). Children and violence: An undergraduate course model of interdisciplinary co-teaching.
International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. 26(1),
122-131.
Flickr.com. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=CgoF2gLE&id=7E5AA3974670DDFB2594E0E4A2B2CAAC67A918CB&q=medicine+hat+college+image&simid=608031529277129075&selectedIndex=4&qpvt=medicine+hat+college+image&ajaxhist=0
Goetz, K. (2000). Perspectives on Team Teaching: A Semester I Independent Inquiry. Retrieved from http://people.ucalgary.ca/~egallery/goetz.html
Google. (2017). Retrieved from https://www.mapcustomizer.com/
Hoare, A., Cornell, S., Bertram, C., Gallager, K., Herslop, S., Lievan, N., & Wilmore, C. (2008). Teaching against the grain: Multi-disciplinary teamwork effectively delivers a successful undergraduate unit in sustainable development.
Environmental Educational Research, 14(4),
469-481.
Peters, H. (n.d.). The Saamis Teepee. Retrieved from http://hammersonpeters.com/?p=500
Woods, C. (2007) Researching and developing interdisciplinary teaching: Towards a conceptual framework for classroom communication.
Higher Education, 54(6),
853-866.