Cross-cultural Team Teaching is not easy but... when it works, it is a life-changing experience as you get to experience the world through another cultural lens. Two or more individuals from very different cultural backgrounds including linguistic differences, are faced with the challenge of teaching a group of students in ways that are largely unfamiliar to the students, and often to one of the Team Teachers as well. Have you tried talking through the ppt on the Newsletter link with other staff members?
Let us know your experiences of cross-cultural Team Teaching: the frustrations, the celebrations and the existence or not, of the concept in your school context.
Jim Cummins, from the University of Toronto, who has written extensively on bilingual education.
"One of the problems is that in some bilingual programs, there hasn't been a strong enough pedagogical vision. Bilingual education has been seen as a panacea, that all we need to do to resolve problems of underachievement is provide some first language instruction and everything else will take care of itself"