This semester, we have been practicing Team Teaching for practical Biology classes. This is the first time there were sufficient teachers to carry out Team Teaching. Please share your OWN experiences on the pros and cons.

http://web.stanford.edu/dept/CTL/Newsletter/teamteaching.pdf

Teaching in a team is very important. We are following mentor system. Each class is divided and Teach by 4 staff members at a time. Also the students are involved in Group discussion.

In our Economics and Administrative Sciences, in many courses, we teach many courses, such as, the applied Research Methods which need practicing team teaching.

Thanks for your views, dear friends. It seems like quite a few of you have been doing this. But all this while I did not practice Team teaching, because we had few Biology teachers (20) in our college. The Chemistry teachers have practiced this, there were 35 of them. So I wait for more views to come in :)

In my institution several courses are taught by two or more faculty members in teams--they are from same or sometime from different areas. This makes the faculty concerned more careful, and ensures that what is said by one faculty gets buttressed by the other, unless the other faculty differs, which is rarely so.

Dear @Miranda, I have no experience with Team Teaching, except when I do Lab with teaching assistants. Paper You have given is fine. I do recommend more reading on this issue, particularly "Collaborative Team Teaching"!

"The collaborative teaching team, a general educator and a special educator, delivers special education services in the general education classroom. They have the joint responsibility to design,deliver, monitor and evaluate instruction for a diverse group of learners in classes where both are present and engaged simultaneously"

http://www.ufttc.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Centering_on_CTT_2010.pdf

Thanks Profs Ljubomir and Debi. Great link Prof Ljubomir, because you apply fishing skills better than many of us.

'A CTT co-teaching team may be defined as two teachers who: coordinate their work to achieve common, agreed upon goals; share a belief system that each member has unique and needed experience; use a cooperative process to plan and monitor instruction; and engage equally in the dual roles of teacher/learner, expert/novice, giver and recipient of knowledge and skills.'

It is nice to see many answers for the question. It is very interesting.

Yeah, this is so called DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES pedagogical patterns, J. Eckstain, M. L. Manns, H. Sharp and M, Sipos "Teaching From Different Perspectives", Proc. of EuroPLop 2003. I've used this approach in last 5 years, together with my colleagues, and the results are very interesting. The students love it, by compulsory surveys on the quality of teaching at my University.

Thanks Prof Ljubomir Jerinic, Kayaroganam and friends, for your posts. I will let you know how it's like at the end of this semester, in November. Yes, doing a survey is in order.

@Kayaroganam, I have asked many Q's on RG, because there are many knowledgeable and generous friends who share their expertise. I have also lost a few questions, that were deleted. But it must not stop me from asking questions that are pertinent and relevant, and not to be too worried if it is 'scientific' or not. The profs on RG (like Prof Ljubomir, Kamal, you etc) will be the best judges of the value of Q's ,thanks.

Thanks Miranda. Our experience in Team Teaching have been described in https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261758212_Different_Roles_of_Agents_in_Personalized_Learning_Environments?ev=prf_pub, i.e. implementation of pair of agents in LMS for teaching programming.

Conference Paper Different Roles of Agents in Personalized Learning Environments

In my department, IT, we do not have teams for teaching, but if there are 2 or more sections for the same course, we have a coordinator for the course, lecturers meet regularly to make sure that they are teaching same stuff, and to make same exams in the same time for all students.

I try to present the students Team Teaching results in electronic journals. For example:

1. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/245542727_Sviridov_I._Gontar_D._Los_V._OASISF.I.S.T._-_%28Sylantyev_S.__Supervisor%29._-_Kiev__KNEU_2013._-_31_p

2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261761159_Falatyuk_V._B__B_BuLL__BeaR._-_%28Sylantyev_S.__Supervisor%29._-_Kiev__KNEU_2014._-_21_p

3. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261676032_Bezyk_Y._Informative._-_%28Sylantyev_S.__Supervisor%29._-_Kiev__KNEU_2014._-_9_p

4. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261612818_Tamasha_Y._Bezzada_M._Deynega_N._INVESTIGATE__launch_the_action_-_%28Sylantyev_S.__Supervisor%29._-_Kiev__KNEU_2014._-_29_p

My students team every year taking part in ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest for competition with students from different universities.

Book Sviridov I., Gontar D., Los V. OASIS/F.I.S.T. - (Sylantyev S...

Book Falatyuk V. B & B :BuLL & BeaR. - (Sylantyev S. – Supervisor...

Book Bezyk Y. Informative. - (Sylantyev S. – Supervisor). - Kiev ...

Book Tamasha Y., Bezzada M., Deynega N. INVESTIGATE : launch the ...

Thanks for your posts.

@Ahmad Hassanat, you are describing a scene like Prof Kamal, right? Thanks.

@Sylantyev, thanks for the links. I will read when I can, soon.

@Mario, it's great that at your 'institution as in all Italian universities, there is a team of teachers that teaches you how to teach', because professors and researchers do not always have training to impart knowledge. Thanks.

(I wish all Muslim friends a healthy fasting month. In my country, Ramadhan begins tomorrow; today is the last day of Syaaban.)

Dear Fausto, one of the aims is for teachers to learn from one another. Which one of us is right all the time? Who among us has no weaknesses? Please take my comments positively, ok? :)

Ok, Fausto, when I can find time, I will participate in the Q. Please send me the link on this thread. I'm busy this weekend, writing a 2nd draft to improve my 1st draft, and checking all the numerical values.

Yeoh,

For undergraduate at Alexandria, we have several courses where more than one instructor takes part in teaching one course. These courses are usually for non-major and their syllabuses contain many different topics [short-courses]. For graduate, we also have more than one mentor teaching course where each mentor teaches the subject of his expertise. Here, I would like to clarify that they are teaching separately their parts.

Well, is that what you meant by team teaching?

Of course, I have been in several seminars and workshops [TOT] in which several instructors are present together in the room each will take his/her place in time creating a dynamic and interactive learning environment. Unfortunately, we did not apply such teaching model in our classrooms, but I would definitely, welcome to opportunity to be part of a team teaching environment. Of course, this needs the instructors to adjust their course planning and classroom management strategies to accommodate such collaborative lectures.

Good luck

Prof Adel, thanks for your post.  You are describing a similar situation to Prof Kamal's.  I would think of that as 1 type of team teaching.  But I was asking on the more dynamic type.  As you said: 'several instructors are present together in the room each will take his/her place in time creating a dynamic and interactive learning environment....'  Thanks.