- Palo Verde Middle School
- Academic Teaming
Academic Teaming
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What Is Academic Teaming?
In teaming, students are grouped with a core team of teachers who combine their resources, interests and knowledge to meet the unique needs of the middle school age student.
Why Is Teaming Good for Students?
- promotes a sense of belonging within a group.
- enhances motivation and enthusiasm for learning through individual classroom study and team interdisciplinary units.
- allows teams to establish goals to better meet students' needs.
- helps teachers monitor attendance and behavior and address individual concerns/issues.
- teaches students necessary organizational and time management skills.
- provides common time for group/classroom guidance activities with support staff.
- allows for team trips, interdisciplinary units, and assemblies without disruption to entire school.
- Offers students additional individualized help through after school tutoring with teachers from their team.
How Does Teaming Help Teachers Help Students?
- helps teachers know their students and their needs better.
- enables teachers to implement interdisciplinary instruction, student incentive and recognition programs, and field trips.
- discuss academic, social and behavioral concerns.
- monitor students' progress.
- conference with parents.
- coordinate homework, tests, quizzes, projects, field trips and interdisciplinary units.
- consult with support personnel (counselors, school nurse, psychologist) regarding individual student concerns/issues.
- support each other through shared goals, intellectual stimulation and better communication.
- evaluate teaching strategies/techniques through daily collaboration with team members.provides daily meeting time where teachers can:
How Does Teaming Help Families?
- allows for more parental involvement.
- enables parents to communicate and monitor student progress with all core teachers via a common daily team meeting time.
- provides timely and consistent information regarding homework, test, quizzes and project