Hi Paul
In my School, Business and Finance, team teaching would be perceived as
expensive for the following reason. Taking a typical seminar group of between
20 and 25 students as an example, the workload allowance for a semester is
currently 30 hours (ie 2hours x 15 weeks). This assumes one tutor taking the
group. Team teaching based on 2 tutors would 'cost' the School 60 hours. Of
course, it would be possible to keep to within 'budget', by:-
* giving the tutors 15 hours each and only seeing the students for half the
time;
* doubling the size of the group and pooling the hours; and
* expecting tutors to contribute hours from their self-managed time on a
goodwill basis.
In my view, none of these options would be in the best interests of either
students or tutors. Don't get me wrong. I am very much in favour of team
teaching and have had experience of it in the past. If it could be resourced
without further reductions in student contact hours I would strongly advocate
it.
How would team teaching be resourced at John Moores?
Best wishes
Roger
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>Dear Roger,
> I can see that multi-disciplinary teams may cut across university
>politics, but I don't really see why they should be intrinsically
>expensive...
>
> best wishes,
>
> Paul S.
>
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