Meet Me in the Middle Ch. 11: Teaming

For me, teaming is an odd concept, I didn’t have a team in middle school as is explained in this chapter my team was a 7-8 grade set-up where all the 7th grade teachers and all 8th grade teachers were the same. We had 5 teachers (math, science, social studies, English and French), each of which had a home room, yet, they all just taught their own subject. I appreciate the way that Wormeli set up teams in the book. Teams are meant to foster relationships and teach students to be more responsible and respectable. In the “teams” my middle school was set up in, we had no one teacher to rely on—all of our teachers were all so called advisors. They all knew us which worked as both a good and bad at the same time. Although they saw us for who we were, they all had the same stamp upon our heads because they all saw us for an equal amount of time whereas in the book, Wormeli said the team leader was meant to advocate and facilitate the classroom. As teams meet regularly they must brainstorm on how to spread curriculum and assignments to each class and figure out when they can integrate. I absolutely wish my middle school teachers would have integrated curriculum more. I believe with this there would have been more of a drive to succeed then there was from the get-go.