Team teaching role next year

poppychick · Team teaching role next year

HT has asked me to 'pencil in' a timetable for September.

I won't be class-based but am supporting the implementation of new Literacy ideas across KS2.

Also, we have a colleague in need of 'support'! This is my role. Support is needed with planning, assessment and teaching in a 'bespoke' way rather than following a scheme for ease.

What would you timetable in? I'm thinking I'll need to share his PPA with him to plan with him. Also wondering about this 'team teaching'? Not something I've done before and don't think the problem is with delivery but more about creating appropriate learning objectives and actvities to match then sharing appropriately and planning for progression.

HT likes how my lessons are 'totally focussed' so I guess I'll be modelling that. Would this be one lesson a week me doing whole class teaching & him with a group maybe?

This probably all sounds pretty odd! It does to me too! What would you want if I was doing this in your school?

eric_the_red

Hi. I have done something similar before. What I would say is that it is very difficult to plan 'bespoke' lessons for a group you don't know, so you'll need a couple of lessons where you can get to know the children and do some assessment activities with them.

Chops

I did this kind of role for a term this year before withdrawing children for an intervention group.

I'll come back later, so if you want specific answers to questions you have, then please post

poppychick

Thanks.

Mainly concerned with making an impact - longer term by supporting this teacher to improve. Agree hard without knowing class but he will know them. Maybe I should be spending all week there working with groups, marking with him? He's quite last at the mo & has bad habits - weak link in the team really.

Think HT may think I can change the works in half a term - just want to do as much as I can Smile

What was your role? Success criteria? Why were you doing it?

I finish for mat leave@ half term. Thanks

poppychick

Last = lazy

Knightrider

How does the colleague feel about it? Is he keen to work with you, or do you think he'll pay lip service. Suspect that managing his attitude may be the biggest challenge you face.

What does the colleague feel he needs help with? What does he see as his issues? What would he like to achieve? Has he watched you teach your class, so he "gets" how you work and what he could get from the relationship. Or is this something that the HT's dreamt up to occupy you before you go on mat leave?

This could be really rewarding for you, or hugely frustrating. The pyschological thing of how to discretely manage your colleague without him resisting you is likely to be the hardest bit of the lot! When I left my first school I was made to stay until Christmas to support an NQT - despite all my best efforts to be tactful and supportive with her, she paid little or no attention to me. Have you got a strategy to deal with that sort of situation?

poppychick

These are my worst fears KR! Aaarrgh - don't want to end up feeling like a failure. Ultimately, my teaching is successful because I work very hard at it! It's not something I can bottle.

I think there's an element of us needing to play the game & say that we put the support in place too whether he takes on board or not.

redredrobin

It can certainly be tricky supporting someone but when I did it as a consultant I found the easiest way was to work alongside someone. I would spend some time in class, picking up on strengths of the teacher, what needed work and needs of the children. Then I would plan a lesson with the teacher that I delivered. Then we would plan another that we both delivered. Be clear on specific objectives for him to show when he then does it by himself eg setting more able challenges, providing scaffolds etc so that you can easily feed back to him where he improves or report back to HT that the support was given but not taken on.

bluerose

As has been said:
1) start from strengths this would come from being in class, get teacher to plan you a group to support that way you are in there without being at back with clipboard as that wont work
2)do best to get person onside take onboard what they think they need, if its not what youre seeing see if you can tie them together eg teacher says the children just arent able to work independently- you think teacher doesnt give clear explanation of what children need to do, clearly this is what leads in part to what teacher sees as problem so you tackle the issue this way
3) keep it smart with clear objectives and make it short so can build on success, keep clear records of everything you both do including time. give teacher copies of these so that its all open and transparent

poppychick

Thank you - great advice!

Hoping I can develop professionally through this role as well so important I don't just muddle through the 7 weeks.

lotto2

I would echo the above. As an AST, i supported many teachers - some glad for help and some just glad to see me go!!! haha.

I was wondering Poppychick, what new Literacy you are implementing? Sounds very interesting.

poppychick

Y3&4 did Read, Write Inc last year and one of the teachers is new so we are reviewing our long term plans for KS2.

New things are - End of Yr. Expectations & Alan Peat sentences.

Things to revisit - handwriting, Big Writing once week, Grammar & Spelling to prepare for SPAG test.

More pulling everything together than something new!