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Session Three
The goal of this Seminar is to allow faculty to hear the experiences of different teachers who are now using TAS: Team As Support. The plan is to give a brief overview of the three organizing principles of TAS (permanent teams with team names; weekly rotating Team Leaders: chats and zooms used to keep teams […]
FALL 2021 SESSION TWO (11/2, 3:30-4:30 PM)
The plan for the second meeting of our TAS: Team As Support FIG is to review the 3 elements of the design of this program (permanent teams that have a rotating Team Leader in which team members are connected by self-chosen platforms for chats and zooms). The focus, however, of the meeting will be on […]
FALL 2021 SESSION 1 (10/13, 3-4 PM)
The plan for the first session of our semester is to facilitate and familiarize faculty with TAS (Team As Support). TAS brings the engine of student ingenuity, generosity, and smarts into operation on behalf of other students within a team. Research has shown that the stronger the connections among team members and the more trust […]
SESSION 4
May 20 Present: Midori Yamamura; Amy Haas; Lea Fridman Meeting 4: We began our meeting by creating a “Possibility” for the meeting itself and for this classroom design on the chat. Those possibilities included the “possibility” of reaching more faculty to share this approach to the classroom. We spoke about the breakdowns and breakthroughs […]
SESSION 2 TEAM AS SUPPORT
Meeting April 7 Present: Marta Cabral (Staten Island); Amy Haas (KCC); Lea Fridman (KCC); Kristine Polizzotto (KCC); Midori Yamamura (KCC) Teachers who use “Team as Support” will find their students, at the end of the semester, very happy with the approach. Universally students will say that “Team as Support” made their class […]
INTRODUCTION
As one teacher commented, the “Team as Support” system comes naturally to our students. They LOVE to be of service to each other and they can often be more effective than their professors! Teaching with my students supported by their teams has changed teaching for me because at the same time that it helps students […]
SESSION 1 TEAM AS SUPPORT
March 18th Meeting Present: Lea Fridman, Midori Yamamura, MaryLynn Navarro, JoAnne Meyers. At our first session, we referred to the attached “Instructions for Teamwork.” This document provides an overview of “Teamwork as Support” that is important for teachers and also useful to distribute and discuss with students at the outset of the semester. It […]
SESSION 3 TEAM AS SUPPORT: summary of April 29th FIG meeting
Friends: At our meeting last Thursday we talked the role of the Team Leader and Amy Haas shared her outline of the Team Leader’s responsibilities with us (see attachment above). Teachers will tweak this as they need to, but this is useful clarification to students about what it means to be a Team Leader. […]
