Benefits of Team Teaching Teacher collaboration is not in and of itself a positive influence on learning outcomes unless it is active collaboration, including; teacher mentoring and coaching; team planning, teaching and problem solving; group designed and conducted action research; teacher appraisal and feedback; and classroom observation and feedback (Grattan Institute, 2014). Assumed benefits of collaboration for teachers emerging from the literature: less isolation, provision of moral support and promoting confidence increased knowledge-base and efficiency and effectiveness of teaching more focus on behavioural and academic outcomes for all students reducing overload and setting boundaries to teachers’ task promoting teacher reflection and teacher learning . Benefits for the learners taken from a study by Gladman (2014) which elicited student voice: The students’ understanding of classroom instruction is improved by team teaching. Team teaching increases students’ willingness to ask questions in class. Awareness that students’ participation contributes to the effective (or ineffective) implementation of team teaching. Team teaching enables teachers to take better care of students. The kind of relationship between the teaching partners contributes to the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of their team teaching. The complementarity of two teachers working together will result in improved teaching (e.g., one partner can make up for a deficiency in the other; one partner can improve from the influence of the other).
Benefits of Team Teaching Teacher collaboration is not in and of itself a positive influence on learning outcomes unless it is active collaboration, including; teacher mentoring and coaching; team planning, teaching and problem solving; group designed and conducted action research; teacher appraisal and feedback; and classroom observation and feedback (Grattan Institute, 2014). Assumed benefits of collaboration for teachers emerging from the literature: less isolation, provision of moral support and promoting confidence increased knowledge-base and efficiency and effectiveness of teaching more focus on behavioural and academic outcomes for all students reducing overload and setting boundaries to teachers’ task promoting teacher reflection and teacher learning . Benefits for the learners taken from a study by Gladman (2014) which elicited student voice: The students’ understanding of classroom instruction is improved by team teaching. Team teaching increases students’ willingness to ask questions in class. Awareness that students’ participation contributes to the effective (or ineffective) implementation of team teaching. Team teaching enables teachers to take better care of students. The kind of relationship between the teaching partners contributes to the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of their team teaching. The complementarity of two teachers working together will result in improved teaching (e.g., one partner can make up for a deficiency in the other; one partner can improve from the influence of the other).