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The IUP Journal of English Studies :
Team Teaching Strategy for Conducive Classroom Learning
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The style of imparting specific language skills at the tertiary level is influenced positively by collaborative team teaching strategies. The teachers benefit more as they interact with each other frequently for designing and implementing tasks. The paper discusses the methods of involving three teachers for teaching in a classroom of 66 students through mutual accommodation. The creation of team teaching strategy was to facilitate undistracted learning environment as it had been difficult for guiding mentally-distracted L2 learners through the learning process to acquire language skills in a larger classroom. The study showed that the suggested strategy enabled teachers of different teaching skills to collaborate, help and support one another and supervise the process of learning more closely. The classroom environment was made suitable to learning through instruction, lecturing and pre-designed activities and enabled the learners of the same grade to learn language skills comfortably. Three faculty members (T1, T2, T3) were involved in training in language production, both in written and spoken forms and created a ‘conducive classroom’ situation. There was a gradual increase of student participation by the end of the study. The restricted flexible strategy also enabled the teachers to improve their teaching skills and correct the pedagogical imbalance by sharing their expertise with each other. The tasks were designed in such a way that the teaching expertise of each teacher involved in team teaching was used to the fullest possible extent. Team teaching also facilitated teachers to improve their teaching skills, though it had its own negative impact on the approach.

 
 
 

Collaboration among teachers has been considered significant, though implementing it in the real context is very difficult due to individualistic attitude of teachers. It has been considered to be a herculean task imparting language skills to second language learners in a larger classroom wherein the learners would be mentally distracted very easily. Teachers who inspire learners are hardly found these days. Introduction of language laboratories and technology integration in classroom teaching do not make much impact on the attitude of learners as each of the students has been struggling with various kinds of inhibitions and technology-assisted distractions. Hence, creating conducive classroom is the need of the hour. Conducive classroom refers to the classroom which creates an appropriate environment for both learning and teaching to take place simultaneously and successfully. Such classroom also needs to carefully consider and choose the most suitable technology and the course content. Since creating conducive classroom depends much on human factor, change in the classroom pattern is possible on a daily basis. The teacher, being the catalyst for the smooth flow of teaching learning process, is expected to create an amiable learning environment. In a large classroom, when two or three teachers work together to deliver the course content, it becomes more lively and interesting for the learners. Hence, in this paper, it is established that team teaching helps to create conducive classroom for both teaching and learning.

 
 
 

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