Team- Teaching Stage
TEAM -TEACHING STAGE
a) Pedagogical event nº2:
TEAM-teaching stage, right? I really don't remember any class in which were a team-teaching work. In fact, the week for that stage the teachers (both) gave me a certain activity (handout, worksheet) to teach and that's it. While the team-teaching stage's classes I was doing the class and my guide teacher was somewhere. I'm very curious to know how is that stage really, because leaving the student teacher alone in the classroom is not the idea, isn't it?.
I feel that I don't have too much information to give related with this "event". I didn't recieve any feedback from my teacher guide about my lesson plans. When I showed her my lesson plans and my didactics units, she only looked over them quickly and said "that's ok".
How could she give me any feedback if she didn't even stay with me in the classroom?
B) Reflexion nº2:" Interaction in the classroom".
The team- teaching stage for me was just a practicing in the practicum. Sounds redundant, isn't it? But it's true. As I said before, that period for me was only to practice how to teach to that class group and that's it, but I would like to have had other kind of participation like preparing handouts, checking vocabulary, even preparing whole lessons but WITH the teacher.
First of all, I would like to suggest to the supervisor teachers that the team - teaching stage has to be a bit longer ( do you think that a week is enough to know my students and my guide teacher also?), and it has to be supervised too - I don't think it is proper to supervise students only in the last month...).
Since there are some students (like me) who don't receive any feedback from their guide teachers, the supervisor teacher could give her/him a good orientation on this. Doing that, we can avoid having problems when starting the teaching stage.
So far, I haven't had bad experiences interacting with the students. But I have the impression that since you have ONLY A WEEK to "prepare" the environment to do your classes, sometimes there are some problems based on lack of communication. And that's a great problem for me, because we are working with people, and the base of human beings' relations is communication.
I have to say that more than once during my teaching stage ,I felt disavowed by my guide teacher because I gave some instruction to the students and she said the contrary. That was uncomfortable.
Good point! Unfortunately no guide teacher accepts a two week period for Team teaching and everyone knows that. So the idea is to do your best while the team teaching period is taking place. Sorry!