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Team Teaching
By MPage

I am self contained and have been since I started in 3rd grade 3 years ago. But I hear "tales" of when this 3rd grade did what they called "block". Where they had 3 teacher teams. 1 teacher would teach Rdg/Math. One teacher
would teach Reading/Math. One teacher would teach Science/Soc Studies. BUT.... Only the reading and math teachers had homerooms. They would have appoximately 28 students in their homeroom. They would would each send 1/2 of their students to the Science/Soc Studies teacher for a block then switch. This way the Reading/Math teachers were teaching to 14 kids and the SS teacher had

28. Also, the rdg/math teachers, one would send 14 highest one would send 14 lowest. This way the Reading/Math teachers were able to teach more to the "level" of the students and the students were not "ability grouped" all day. Amazingly, the SS/Science teacher is the one now saying she wished we would go back to this even though she had 28 compared to the others 14 at a time.

Not sure if any of that made sense kind of hard to explain in writing.