Team Teaching

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Team Teaching
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Team Teaching Tips

• Communication
• ALTs and JTEs Dont be shy!
• ALTs Get to know your teachers teaching style.
  JTEs talk about your teaching style to your ALT.
• Plan Ahead
• Have something up your sleeve
• ALTs Develop your own style
• Evaluation/Feedback

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Lessons

• The Lesson Plan
• The Actual Lesson
• Lesson Evaluation/Feedback

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The Plan

• Find time to discuss the lesson plan at least a
  few days before the class
• Sometimes thats not always possible
• Write notes, send an e-mail or fax

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The Lesson

• Who conducts the lesson?
• Explanation of activities English or Japanese?

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Tips for Classroom Presence

• Eye contact and signaling
• Circulate the classroom
• Division of roles
• Timing

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Evaluation/Feedback

• Do you usually discuss and evaluate each lesson?
• How can you make the lesson better?
• We want to know how we can improve!!!!!

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Talk and Talk

• Get to know your teachers as well as your
  students
• Go to enkais and parties and join in
• Leave notes
• Learn Japanese

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Discussion

• ALTs and JTEs What do you expect from each
  other?
• Do you think feedback/evaluation is important?
• What are your concerns about teaching together?
• What is good communication?
• Discipline?