The Wicked Problem of Team Teaching

Wicked Problems 199
Team Teaching and Solution Based Learning

​Capstone: CSI Leadership Institute

Cohort 5

Open Ended

How does team teaching benefit CSI students?

Open Ended

What prevents CSI from doing team teaching well?

Wicked?

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Multiple Choice

Select the best description of "wicked problem."

• a problem with a clear and simple solution.

• a highly complex and multifaceted problem that is difficult to solve.

• a problem that only affects individual teachers, not students.

• a problem caused by lack of resources.

HIPs

How did we land on our solution?

Project Description
and Overview

Guiding Principles

​Goals: 

• Identify and explore challenges to team teaching at CSI; evaluate solutions.
  
  

• Identify best practices for team teaching and create a replicable framework for team-teaching.

Secondary Goals:
Build a scalable instructional template for team teaching to: 

• teach collaboratively (HIPs) in multiple disciplines, 

• develop and implement culturally responsive curricula and pedagogy (Title V) to meet the needs of all learners, 

• model reasoned, civil discourse (acknowledging present political realities) as a primary durable skill,  

• connect projects and learning to community service (HIPs), and 

• maximize Carnegie seat time (hybrid, flipped instruction).  
  

What's in this for students?

What's in this for students?

The courage to speak up

What's in this for students?

The ability to disagree civilly

What's in this for students?

A commitment to shared knowledge

What's in this for students?

Self-directed Learning*








*Cote, Jennifer L. "'None of my history classes were like this': An Experiment in Mastery Pedagogy." The History Teacher. Aug 2017, Vol 50 No 4, pp. 597-627.

What's in this for students?

Resilience

What's in this for students?

Grit

• Candace Boesiger & Kim Jones

• Seat time of 4 hrs/week (MW)

• ​Remainder on Canvas

• Coordinate lessons

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​GNED 101 and ENGL 101+
(8 credits)

​GNED 101 and ENGL 102
(6 credits)

• Ben Hamlett & Clark Draney

• Seat time of 4 hrs/week (MW)

• Extensive use of online resources

• Both instructors in class each day

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Considerations

Considerations
Grading
Modalities?
Which instructors?
Funding (should have zero impact)
Scheduling (primarily technical questions)

Considerations




Other things
we haven't thought of yet...

Demonstration of Leadership Abilities

Leadership

​CSI Strategic Plan

• Optimize Student Access

• Drive Student Success

• Innovation

• Continuous Improvement

​Student Impact

• Engagement

• Community

• Curricular coherence

​Student Impact

• Engagement

• Community

• Curricular coherence

• Bridges across disciplines

• Assistance

• Dialogue

​Faculty Impact

• Reflective practice

• Scaffolding

• Modeling

​Faculty Impact

• Reflective practice

• Scaffolding

• Modeling

• Bridges across disciplines

• Step out of comfort zone

• Creativity, stretching, growth

​Scope Beyond Existing Responsibilities

• Identify an opportunity, act

• Pilot test

• Build a replicable framework

• Apply project management to a scalable solution

Looping Back

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