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Instructional Setting:
1. Instructional Setting: This December I was tasked to produce a class to teach collaborative teaching to my instructional team at the Basic Intelligence Analyst Course here at Fort Huachuca. The reason for this tasking was that our instructors are not teachers and have had no real instruction on how to teach as a team. This class was not actually presented as circumstances and reorganization took place in December but the author still wanted to continue to prepare this class as it is still needed and there now is time with the reorganization completed. A little about what we do at the Basic Intelligence Analyst Course. The United States Basic Intelligence analyst course teaches Basic Intelligence …show more content…
Military instructors teach in a collaborative environment, where all are expected to be equal participants. (U.S. Army, 2011) These teachers work in teams of two to four to teach a class of about thirty soldiers. The objective of team teaching is to give better feedback and more teachers to student interaction on complex subjects. The teaching teams are believed to have a greater knowledge base to give feedback to the students.(CITE) There is little guidance and limited resources on how to put these teams together. There is less guidance on what should be expected of whose leading the team or when does the assistant jump in to teach without appearing disorganized. The by-product to this would be the objective obtained of preventing an instructor from dominating over one another as well. Without formal training and resource support, passive instructors could be delegated to a supporting role with little input. In other cases, the instructors will contradict each other and confuse the students or worse, actually get into verbal squabbles in front of the students. However, teaching methods are often adaptive and interactive with the class, which means having two instructors following a rigid pre-planned method may not always go as
Instructional Setting:
1. Instructional Setting: This December I was tasked to produce a class to teach collaborative teaching to my instructional team at the Basic Intelligence Analyst Course here at Fort Huachuca. The reason for this tasking was that our instructors are not teachers and have had no real instruction on how to teach as a team. This class was not actually presented as circumstances and reorganization took place in December but the author still wanted to continue to prepare this class as it is still needed and there now is time with the reorganization completed. A little about what we do at the Basic Intelligence Analyst Course. The United States Basic Intelligence analyst course teaches Basic Intelligence …show more content…
Military instructors teach in a collaborative environment, where all are expected to be equal participants. (U.S. Army, 2011) These teachers work in teams of two to four to teach a class of about thirty soldiers. The objective of team teaching is to give better feedback and more teachers to student interaction on complex subjects. The teaching teams are believed to have a greater knowledge base to give feedback to the students.(CITE) There is little guidance and limited resources on how to put these teams together. There is less guidance on what should be expected of whose leading the team or when does the assistant jump in to teach without appearing disorganized. The by-product to this would be the objective obtained of preventing an instructor from dominating over one another as well. Without formal training and resource support, passive instructors could be delegated to a supporting role with little input. In other cases, the instructors will contradict each other and confuse the students or worse, actually get into verbal squabbles in front of the students. However, teaching methods are often adaptive and interactive with the class, which means having two instructors following a rigid pre-planned method may not always go as