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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.   […]

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