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Unit 22: Meaning, Nature and Strategies of Teacher Controlled Instruction

You should remember that showing readymade aids is not a demonstration. A teaching activity Notes
is demonstration only when you 'do' or 'perform' with some physical activity of your own.
(iv) Criteria for Assessing Demonstration: A critical examination of these defects provides the
criteria for assessing demonstration. Two major criteria for assessing demonstration are:
• Effective presentation; and
• Effecient presentation
22.3.2 Team Teaching
Team teaching is based on the assumption that no single teacher possesses expertise to do full
justice to the entire course. As against the usual practice of tcaching the full course in a subject by
single teacher, team-teaching requires cooperation of two or more teachers to provide instruction
in the areas of their expertise in the subject. This method is best suited for providing instruction
to the students in interdisciplinary subjects like sciences, social sciences, etc., at different levels.
(i) Nature of Team Teaching: Team teaching has been defined in a variety of ways. Team teaching
is a method of insuuction in which two or more teachers organise to provide instruction to a
large group of students in flexibly varied ways best fitted to learning mb. In team teaching the
teachers work as a co-ordinated team under the direction of a team leader who allocates the
teaching load and co-ordinates the work of the individual teachers. Talented teachers are engaged
in team teaching to get optimum advantage. Team teaching in this sense is a highly organized
activity demanding total co-operation and understanding of the teachers involved, sharing of
ideas, and evolving common methods of working.
Team teaching is a type of instructional organisation involving teaching personnel (includes
other academic also, such laboratory incharge, librarian, sport teacher, media person, etc.) and
the students in which two or more teachers share the responsibility of providing instruction to
students. Thus team teaching combines three elements: (i) a distinct student group (ii) a small
faculty group responsible for teaching the student group, and (iii) certain persons who assist the
teachers and the students.

The teaching group varies in size and composition according to the nature of the teaching
activity or the objectives to be achieved.

Characteristics of team teaching: The following are the main characteristics of team teaching:
• It is a flexible instructional organization. It provides for variety in instructional procedures,
assignments, scheduling, grouping, etc.
• It binds the teachers, students and other academic personnel in a working relationship with
a view to enhance effectiveness of teaching.
• A group of teachers shares the responsibility of planning, organising, leading, controlling
and evaluating teaching of the same group of students.
• Even though team teaching is group-oriented. it protects the professional autonomy of the
individual teachers in classroom. You are free to use strategy(ies) of teaching on the basis of
your judgement. This, however, doesn't prevent you from consulting others and seeking
their advice. In other words, team teaching protects the sovereignity of a teacher in
classroom.
(ii) Types of Team Teaching: There are several types of team teaching. Shaplin (1967) grouped
them into four categories:
• Two or more teachers appear to work together as associates, meeting occasionally and
dividing up the responsibilities for instruction so that a minimum joint activity is ensured.
This fom of team teaching represents one extreme.

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