Team Teaching: A New Instructional Pattern for Real Estate Education.

Overview & Synopsis

The concept of team teaching and how real estate education might profit from its use are considered. Contents are as follows: (1) an explanation of this concept for organizing instruction, alternative modes for structuring teaming, a discussion of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in a team approach to instruction, and the research that supports its use; (2) a discussion of the events that typically occur in any teaching/learning transaction and applications of team teaching to real estate education; and (3) a paradigm for implementing a team teaching organizational pattern into a real estate education program sponsored by higher education. The following instructional activities by which team teaching can be applied to real estate education are examined: gaining attention, informing the learners of the objective, stimulating recall of prerequisite learned capabilities, presenting the material to be learned, providing learning guidance, eliciting performance, providing feedback, assessing performance, and enhancing retention and transfer. A proposed topical format for an instructor's guide and references are included. (SW)