Assessing and improving middle school teaming from a science teacher's perspective

Abstract

In this project the concept of middle school teaming was explored with the purpose of assessing how the teams are currently functioning and how the daily teaming time can be improved. For the purpose of this study, teaming is described as a small group of teachers who teach various subjects to the same group of students and who share a common meeting time. Attitudes regarding teaming in general were assessed before and after attending a training workshop about teaming. In this training, individual working styles were explored, group norms were discussed, a mission statement was developed and goals were set.