If you attended the Team Teaching breakout sessions on Monday afternoon at this year’s convention and have been wanting to re-watch the Team Teaching video Jennifer Nicholls showed at both sessions, you’re in luck! You can watch the video—featuring a real-world, bird’s-eye-view of the flow and rhythm of Team Teaching in a center environment—below.
3 Comments To "Convention 2015: Team Teaching Video"
#1 Comment By Jennifer Krull On August 19, 2015 @ 7:43 am
I’m counting 6 instructors and 11-12 students. I think any model would be easy with that ratio! Would love to see it successful with 6 instructors and 24 students. This is what we have every afternoon, and the only way no one gets overlooked is to have one instructor seated with 4 students. Instructors get up to help each other when they have a lull.
#2 Comment By John Opalko On August 21, 2015 @ 5:46 am
We use team teaching with a combination of ‘section leads’ and floating instructors and it works fine. I try to keep ratios at 3:1 although sometimes during busy period it can get higher than that. If anyone wants to video or view our center let me know.
John
#3 Comment By Chris Symmes On August 26, 2015 @ 10:38 am
Hi, I’m Chris the CD at Westwood (the guy in the red shirt). I just wanted to clarify the numbers. I had 4 instructors working that day (2 female in black, one male in black and one in white). I don’t count myself in the ratio, but will step in time to time in between administrative tasks. You may have seen David U in there as well, but he was just working the camera.
During taping that day, we had between 8 and 15 kids. During the summer, we would regularly get ~20 students with the same number of instructors. It was kind of a slow day that day, but it showed a good example of how we do things. I am hugely concerned with making sure none of the kids get overlooked and make it a priority to keep a good ratio. During the school year we have high 20’s students with 6 instructors to keep a 4-5 student to instructor ratio.