Teaming
Significantly altering the poor performance of underachieving students occurs only when teachers are well supported in their work and when teachers carefully team with others on behalf of those students who struggle to succeed.
SIM includes an array of supporting programs and materials designed to improve communication and teaming both within the classroom and within the larger community. Materials in the form of books, CD-ROMs, and videotapes provide guidance for building learning communities, enhancing social skills, and improving a variety of skills for use in the classroom and in other group settings.
Use of these programs and materials supports an important goal: to avoid a fragmented educational experience for students. Teaming can help provide a sustained, well-coordinated, and well-orchestrated balance of curriculum content, skills, and strategies.
General education teachers and support teachers (special education, Title 1, etc.) both gain by working together to solve students' problems, but the person who will benefit most from their collaboration is the student they are trying to help. The general education teacher brings expertise in a specific content area to their relationship, while the support teacher brings expertise in skills and strategies students need to succeed. The combined wisdom of these two areas of expertise can be a powerful force in the educational experience of students with learning difficulties.
The teaming equation is not complete without the addition of administrators, parents, physicians, counselors, coaches, and other individuals or agencies that have contact with the student in some way. Bringing this group into the teaming environment helps ensure a consistent message to the student as he or she continues to pursue academic success.
Teaming: Teachers with teachers
Teaming: Teachers with students
- Learning Expressways
- Surface Counseling
Teaming: Teachers with parents
