Team teaching as a strategy for enhancing teaching about theory-into-practice

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Roberts, Melanie
Bissett, Michelle
Wilding, Clare
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2021
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Integrating theory-into-practice is an important skill for professionals to master during their university education; however, students and educators find learning and teaching about theory-into-practice challenging. To address these difficulties ‘Transition Workshops’ were implemented within a Bachelor of Occupational Therapy. A mixed methods evaluation was conducted using pre- and post-workshop surveys and focus groups. Qualitative findings, the focus of this paper, were that team teaching helped educators feel more confident in teaching theory-into-practice as it was more enlivening than solo teaching, it provided opportunity for professional development, it enabled better understanding of the whole curriculum, and it modelled a consolidated professional identity. Team teaching assisted students by providing them with multiple role-models. This study highlighted that some of the challenge in supporting students to learn how to integrate theory-into-practice may be addressed using team teaching.

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Innovations in Education and Teaching International

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This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 21 Aug 2021, copyright Taylor & Francis, available online at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14703297.2021.1966490

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Curriculum and pedagogy

Allied health and rehabilitation science

Education

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Roberts, M; Bissett, M; Wilding, C, Team teaching as a strategy for enhancing teaching about theory-into-practice, Innovations in Education and Teaching International

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