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3 Teacher Team
By bamagirl

I teach 5th grade, and we have been trying to convince our principal to let us team for the past few years. We were finally successful for this year, and we love it! It is so much easier when it comes to planning lessons.
We have 9 fifth grade units, so we have 3 different teams with 3 teachers on each team. I am the reading teacher on my team. This is the only subject I teach because we put a lot of focus on reading at my school. We also have a math/science teacher and a language/writing/social studies teacher on each team.

I am going to try to attach a couple copies of our class schedule. One is

the teacher's schedule. This is my schedule telling me which class I have and the times they are with me. It includes my planning periods. The other is a schedule for my homeroom kids. Each student in my homeroom was given a copy of this on the first day of school. It tells them what teacher and subject they will be with and the times. It includes the times they will go to P.E., lunch, and any specials.

You will need to schedule your P.E. during the same block of time, your lunch during the same block of time, and specials during the same block of time. For example, everyone on my team has library during 1st period, just on different days. Everyone goes to lunch during 2nd period. Everyone goes to P.E. and art/counselor during 3rd period. So far, this schedule has really worked well for us this year.

Good luck with the planning! It will take a lot of hard work, but you will love it once it is all worked out! :)