Team-teaching in a Higher Education context: Tips and tricks
In the following #podcast, Irene Lubbe and I share our reflections, opinions and views from our experience of team teaching together over a period of two years on a number of modules/courses in the Elkana Center where we work.
Co-teaching is at its best a rewarding, and at its worst a highly stressful endeavor. Therefore, when two newly acquainted colleagues from vastly different background and different environments are thrown together to co-teach a new course, at an unfamiliar institution, in a new country, mid Covid-pandemic, it creates interesting conversations, challenges, and opportunities, resulting in valuable lessons learnt that can be used in a variety of educational settings.
In this narrated single case-study we analyzed the brutally honest reflective reports written by the authors of this paper. The authors made use of an autobiography writing style for data collection and reporting. Using grounded theory and Braun and Clarke’s thematic analysis methodology, we identified six themes with subsequent sub-categories from these reflective reports. The themes varied from deep personal emotions and feeling, spanning the emotional spectrum of guilt and irritation to the opposite side of the spectrum of patience, back-up and safety-nets. Other themes that emerged, focused on organizational components, role differentiation, relationships, and experiences and then, not surprising, the added value for the students.
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We have published a paper that can be found HERE
You can find the highlights from that paper below
