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Joseph Estabrook School: Historic Structure Report Team Teaching Philosophy 9 effectively, the team leader is released from classroom teaching responsibilities for about a third of the school day. In consideration of their additional training and increased responsibilities, senior teachers receive a salary increment beyond the teachers' schedule and team leaders receive an increment beyond senior teachers.' The role of the principal under the teaching teams organization will probably become one of enhanced prestige and responsibility, somewhat akin to the present role of director of instruction. Since the team leaders and their subordinates are able to attend to many routine administrative and management details, the principal has more opportunity for leadership in curriculum development, instructional supervision and guidance.... By taking advantage of the opportunities provided through the presence of specialists and clerical aides, and by taking advantage of release time provided through the scheduling of large group lessons and through the creation of fewer groups than teachers, much more effective use of professional personnel can be realized under team organization that under the self - contained pattern.... By holding team meetings before and after school, there is an opportunity for discussion of instructional problems. In many respects, the team structure provides an extension of the training period with its emphasis on planning, observation and evaluation.24 Ethel Bears said: The team teaching organization in some respects is like Pandora's box. Problems become obvious to all because of the interdependence of personnel in teams and in the school. No longer can what is happening to Johnnie in Miss Jones' class remain behind a closed classroom door. The principal must see problems as challenges to look for solutions. He must work with his administrative cabinet to find ways of effecting changes that will get at the problems.25 As summarized in Team Teaching: Bold New Venture, David W. Beggs III, ed., the various staff members work together to: • Cooperatively plan and evaluate instruction; • Organize groups of different sizes for different kinds of instruction in a flexible daily schedule; • Use space and media appropriate to the purpose and content of instruction.26 24 Robert H. Anderson, Ellis A. Hagstrom and Wade M. Robinson, "Team Teaching in an Elementary School," The School Review Vol. 68, No. 1 (Spring 1960): 76 -77; 80 -81. 25 Ethel Bears, "Team Teaching at the Franklin School," June 1969, 9. Typescript in the Special Collections, Cary Memorial Library. 26 David W. Beggs III, ed. Team Teaching: Bold New Venture (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1964), 16. Anne Andrus Grady June 2012