Team Teaching: What Methods I Would Use

After reading these two articles about team teaching, my perspective has changed on how I assumed team teaching works. I never knew there were so many methods to team teaching and hadn’t really experienced team teaching until I got to college. My only concern from a personal standpoint on team teaching is that it would be hard to find another teacher that aligns with me well enough to coincide in a team teaching environment. On the other hand, I think it would make me feel more comfortable trying new things in my classroom because I had someone by my side in support. I would not like this approach as a 1st-year teacher because I feel that is the time for you to learn to teach on your own, make your own mistakes and grow from them. As a more experienced teacher, I would be willing to take on this approach especially for the station teaching aspect because I feel this would enhance the classroom environment from the original lecture or discussion and help focus ideas to kids with fun, hands-on activities that really gets to dive deep into the material. I think it would be a great idea to team teach just in stations for before every end of unit assessment the station teaching is implemented so the students can have a recap of what they learned before they have to take a test. I feel that they would remember the material better because they are in a fun setting that is not a typical teaching setting. Wanting to potentially become a special education teacher I feel the alternative approach would be great for a special needs classroom because they need focused teaching and specific help on subjects. With this method, students wouldn’t have to be afraid of asking questions or struggling in front of the whole class and could ask questions in a small group setting so as a teacher you can better understand where the class lessons need to be focused.