Chapter 11: Teaming

This chapter focuses a lot on the idea of using teaming in the middle schools in order to provide a community for the middle school students, and to provide them with the help they need. One thing that was really cool about this was the subject integration. In the real world students will be faced with the overlapping of many different subjects all at once. With the use of teams in the middle school atmosphere, students have the ability link all of these different subjects, and put them to use in a way that they might in the real world. Another thing that I took away from this reading was the core values that should be presented to the team. Not only should these core values be present with the teachers, they should also be present with the students. That way the values apply all around. Teacher interactions are another key thing when having successful teams. One thing that I took from the end of this reading was that instead of always having one team leader, have leaders shift. Just like we will be doing in our middle education class.