INTRODUCTION

The concept of team teaching is widely spreading

throughout the country to improve teaching-
learning process in the class room.
It is an innovation in school organization in which
two or more teachers teach a group of students.
The group is benefited by the expertise of
different teachers.
In western countries, team teaching is no more an
innovation as it has been used for the last twenty-
five years to prove the quality of instruction but
in our country it is at its initial stage.
DEFINITION
Team teaching has been defined as a type of
instructional organization, involving teaching
personnel and the students assigned to them, in
which two or more teachers are given
responsibility working together, for all or
significant part of the instruction of the same
group of students.
Another educationist defined team teaching as
an arrangement whereby two or more teachers,
with or without teacher aides cooperatively plan,
instruct, and evaluate one or more class groups in
an appropriate instructional space and given
length of time so as to take advantage of the
special competencies of the team members.
Carlo-Olson has given a comprehensive definition
of team teaching, according to him, team teaching
may be defined as An instructional situation
where two or more teachers possessing
complimentary teaching skills cooperatively plan
and implement the instruction for a single group
of students using flexible scheduling and grouping
techniques to meet the particular instruction.
ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF TEAM
TEACHING
One of the most interesting and potentially
significant developments in American education was
the meteoric rise during the late 1950s of an
organizational structure known as team teaching.
Team teaching emerged as a very successful method
of utilizing teachers expertise to improve the quality
of the need of instruction in fifties.
Harvard University was the first institution which
initiated an internship plan in 1955.
Another educator who made valuable contribution for
the success of team teaching was J. Leyond Trump
who served as Director of the Commission on the
experimental study.
Team teaching was not only confined to
educational institution but its use was extended
to armed forces for training purpose during the
Second World War.
Team teaching developed at a high speed in
seventies. All institutions use team teaching in one
or the other way.

OBJECTIVES OF TEAM
TEACHING
The team teaching has been developed with the
following objectives in view:
To utilize the better talents and interests of
teachers.
To increase grouping and scheduling flexibility.
To improve the quality of instruction.

GUIDING PRINCIPLES
OF TEAM TEACHING
Principles may be modified according to the local
conditions of a school. The following are the
important principles:
Size and composition.
Time factor.
Learning environment.
Duties assigned to teachers should be
appropriate.
Level of instruction.
Supervision.
ADVANTAGES OF
TEAM TEACHING
Opportunity for free discussion.
Development of human relations.
Development of the professional status of the teacher.
Exposure of group to more specialists.
Breakthrough from a rigidly compartmentalized school
organization.
Economy.
Evaluation.
Quality of instruction.
LIMITATIONS OF
TEAM TEACHING
Lack of cooperation.
Disregard to the dynamics of small groups.
Traditional conservative attitude.
Lack of accommodation.
High cost.
TYPES OF TEAM
TEACHING
Traditional team teaching.
Supportive instruction.
Parallel instruction.
Differentiated split class.
The monitoring teacher.

CONCLUSION


Different types of team teaching may be used
within one class period. Team teaching can be
played in various subject. The teachers and the
students may develops human relation and
smoothing the instructional material and improve
learning environment.