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OLD: Co-instructors
Since we focus on Team teaching, almost everyone is a co-instructor. But this page is focused on onboarding new co-instructors in their first lessons, so focuses on explaining the most common starting point.
Why co-teaching?
Demo of team teaching. Two people are speaking, in this case one is typing and giving the small point of view, and one is explaining the big point of view.
The dream of interactive teaching is hard to achieve: most audiences are very quiet and even if someone does speak up, it is a small fraction of the audience. We have found a better way: Build the interaction straight in to the course by co-teaching. Instead of trying to have a conversation with students, we have a conversation among co-instructors.
Co-teaching provides other benefits, such as easier preparation and easier presentation.
How co-teaching works: guide and demo-giver
Main article: Team teaching.
We have developed several ways of team teaching, but for starters we suggest the “guide and demo-giver” approach. The guide manages the overall flow through the lesson. The demo-giver does the typing during the demonstrations. So, for example:
The guide introduces a type-along session and walks through the steps while…
… the demo-giver does the typing in the screenshare
The guide and demo-giver ask each other about what is happening.
During other times, the demo-giver and guide ask each other questions when the other is talking.
Top issues new co-instructors face
See the instructor-intro for now.