Whatever Happened to Team Teaching?

In teaching high school history and graduate university courses for decades, I have team taught with other history and English teachers and university colleagues many times. For example, at Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C., Roberta Kaplan and I taught English and social studies in the mid-1960s. And in Stanford University’s teacher education program (STEP), I team taught a social studies curriculum and instruction course for over ten years with Lee Swenson, then an Aragon High School history teacher. Finally, historian David Tyack and I taught “History of School Reform” between 1987 and 1998. Out of that team-taught course, we eventually wrote Tinkering toward Utopia (1995). I enjoyed very much the planning together and actual teaching that I and my team-mates did. Sure there were conflicts over choice of content, which materials to use, who would do what and when during the lesson, and similar decisions. More often than not, we negotiated in order to collaborate and conflicts…

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