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Joseph Estabrook School: Historic Structure Report Team Teaching Philosophy 10 <br />FLOATING SPECIALIST <br />MUSIC <br />ALPHA: GRADES ONE and TWO BETA: GRADES THREE and FOUR OMEGA: GRADES FIVE and SIX <br />Diagram shoeing typical organization of teaching teams in the SUPRAD <br />Project. Note "floating" specialists, who serve all teams in each building. <br />Planning is the heart of team operation. Here a teaching team <br />holds one of its regular planning meetings at the Franklin School. <br />Lexington and SUPRAD, Paul A. Perry, ed. Published by SUPRAD, October 1963, page 6. <br />As team teaching took off in Lexington, those involved experienced an exhilarating, if labor <br />intensive, work situation. Team teaching took an enormous amount of planning. Once the <br />Estabrook School was built, the teaching team had the pleasure of using the new spaces as <br />proposed. They strove to meet the objectives of a team teaching program outlined by Ira Singer: <br />1. To develop creativity, adaptability, responsibility and habits of inquiry in students. <br />2. To make more intelligent use of teacher's specialized talents, interests training and <br />energy. <br />3. To improve the quality of teaching through the in- service nature of the team design. <br />Anne Andrus Grady June 2012 <br />SPECIALIST TEAM <br />FLDATlNG SPECIALIST <br />PHYSICAL EDl1CRTI0N <br />TERM <br />LRT <br />LEADER <br />LEADER <br />k7/ATEACHER <br />TWO <br />TWO <br />SENIOR <br />SENIOR TEACHERS <br />SENIOR TEACHERS <br />THREE <br />THREE TEACHERS <br />THREE TEACHERS <br />CLERICAL AIDCLERICAL <br />AIDE and TEACHER <br />AIDE CLERICAL AIDE and TE ACHER AIDE <br />ALPHA: GRADES ONE and TWO BETA: GRADES THREE and FOUR OMEGA: GRADES FIVE and SIX <br />Diagram shoeing typical organization of teaching teams in the SUPRAD <br />Project. Note "floating" specialists, who serve all teams in each building. <br />Planning is the heart of team operation. Here a teaching team <br />holds one of its regular planning meetings at the Franklin School. <br />Lexington and SUPRAD, Paul A. Perry, ed. Published by SUPRAD, October 1963, page 6. <br />As team teaching took off in Lexington, those involved experienced an exhilarating, if labor <br />intensive, work situation. Team teaching took an enormous amount of planning. Once the <br />Estabrook School was built, the teaching team had the pleasure of using the new spaces as <br />proposed. They strove to meet the objectives of a team teaching program outlined by Ira Singer: <br />1. To develop creativity, adaptability, responsibility and habits of inquiry in students. <br />2. To make more intelligent use of teacher's specialized talents, interests training and <br />energy. <br />3. To improve the quality of teaching through the in- service nature of the team design. <br />Anne Andrus Grady June 2012 <br />