Chapter 11: Extending Our Professional Practices Teaming

This chapter was all about the positive impact that team teaching has on your students and the way that they learn. In my own middle school experience my teachers team taught, and not only did they split us up into teams within the grade level, they made units around the learning results. I remember in seventh grade doing our China unit. This was a big deal in our school, we read Chinese imspired books in Language Arts and did a huge project in Social Studies, and was connected through word problems in math and different science concepts. This made the whole unit more powerful to all of us students at the time. We then had "China Connections Night" where we would present the projects that we had worked on in all of the classes. It was really powerful. Another thing that the book points out is that when you teach in teams all the teachers share the core values. This make the teaching setting stronger as well as the message that the students recieve from the school as a whole.