Research on the effects of team teaching upon two secondary school teachers

Background The implementation of the nine-year integrated curriculum in the primary and secondary schools of Taiwan represented, in practice, a great change to the nature of school teaching. This was mainly due to the fact that the new scheme for the curriculum required teachers to collaborate with one another, when they had been teaching students independently for most of their teaching career. Purpose The purpose of this research was to study the effects of team teaching upon two 8th-grade teachers in the field of mathematics. The specific research question was student performance and teacher perceptions concerning team teaching. Programme description Team teaching involves two or more teachers whose primary concern is the sharing of teaching experiences in the classroom, and co-generative dialoguing with each other. They take collective responsibility for maximizing learning to teach, or becoming better at teaching, while providing enhanced opportunities for their students to learn. Sample The subjects...