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Three Goals for this year
Joanne mentioned about the goals of this year. After discussing with
Dr. Sroda, Catherine and Vickie, we think of three goals as the general guidelines for everyone to follow. The three goals can be shown like below:
Team Teaching Discussion:
l The insistence of using English only in classroom.
l Q& A patterns as practice of conversation
l The use of exciting games
l One advantage of team teaching is that team partner can remind what needs to be considered like: if your speaking speed is appropriate to the level of your students.
l We can acting out a dialogue while team teaching together.
Sroda’s lecture about team teaching:
5 types of team teaching :
1) Traditional—both teacher share and participate in everything.
2) Collaborative or Supportive—one teacher presents and other follows with related activity.
3) Parallel Instruction—split class into 2 groups and each teacher has a group.
4) Differentiated Split Class – Split into groups according to level
5) Monitoring—One teacher conduct lesson/activity and other moniters clears for progress problems, etc.
Dr. Sroda mentioned that amazingly each of the types have been applied by our LETs and ETAs! She would like our teachers think about the when/ how / why we apply the different types of team teaching.
Next, Dr. Sroda had each team discuss and try to make a list of “ Characteristics for Team Teaching”. Below is the list we gather:
Cooperation | Share idea (brain storming) | Flexible |
Communication | Reflection | Well-prepared |
Open-minded | Sense of humor | Mutual understanding |
sensitivity | Constructive criticism | Intuition (默契) |
Maximizing efficiency | Balance of responsibility | Common goal |
enthusiasm | creativity | Sharing strengths |
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