Team Teaching: The Northern Nevada Writing Project Teacher-Researcher Group (Stenhouse in Practice Books) [Paperback]

Northern Nevada Writing Project (Editor)

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...Because team teaching is essential for successful inclusion, I recommend Team Teaching The Northern Nevada Writing Project Teacher-Research Group, a practical and honest book written by teachers. -- Creative Classroom, March/April 1998

An instructive description of multiple models of successful teams. The inclusion of data from surveys and interviews with teachers, students, parents, and principals also provides multiple perspectives of the downsides and upsides of team teaching. What is best about this practical and honest book, however, are the excerpts from the journals of classroom teachers who worked hard and wrote eloquently about the difficulties and rewards to successful teaming. Reform minded middle school teachers committed to interdisciplinary study and block scheduling will find inspiration in their accounts. -- Voices from the Middle, April 1997

From the Back Cover

Team teaching is a strategy that has been around for years, but creating teams-whether in response to district expectations or as a way of dealing with changes in teaching practice-needs careful thought in order to succeed. While teaming means the partners must reconfigure much of their teaching lives, it can be done successfully, as this book affirms. Chock-full of ideas and insights, Team Teaching discusses the social and personal implications of teaming, illuminating the process with first-person vignettes taken from the journals classroom teachers kept to record their experiences.

Based on their own stories and those of their colleagues/informants the authors discuss:

how and why team teaching succeeds and how elementary school teams differ from teams in middle and secondary schools; how to get started - defining partners' roles, achieving consistency, sharing space and materials, adjusting schedules, and adapting curriculum; the upside - what team teaching can do for you, your colleagues, your students, your school; and the downside - what to do when a team doesn't succeed; the bigger picture - how principals see team teaching and how students and parents respond to it.

Appendixes include:

a checklist of team teacher issues;
a parent survey on teaming;
materials for questions and discussion groups about team teaching.

Whether you have been part of a team for years, are just starting, or are an administrator who wants to know more about teaming from the inside you will learn a great deal from the insights of this group of Nevada teacher-researchers.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Stenhouse Pub (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1571100407
• ISBN-13: 978-1571100405
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,578,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful resource!, December 10, 1998

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This review is from: Team Teaching: The Northern Nevada Writing Project Teacher-Researcher Group (Stenhouse in Practice Books) (Paperback)

If you're interested in teachers' first-hand experiences with team teaching and loads of practical advice, this book is for you! It's a good read!

3.0 out of 5 stars Team Teaching, October 25, 2009

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This review is from: Team Teaching: The Northern Nevada Writing Project Teacher-Researcher Group (Stenhouse in Practice Books) (Paperback)

I'm sure this is a great book. However, it just didn't have the information that I need. My "team" and I share students, but don't share physical space. OUr challenge is how to share discipline and curriculum when we are not in the same area.