The use of teams and team learning structures Team learning involves students teaching students. This guide contains many activities that encourage students to use primary resources to learn about the Vietnam War era including films, interviews with veterans and protesters, letters from veterans, high school yearbooks, and official documents from the United States and the North Vietnamese governments. Inviting participants in the war to your classroom is a particularly effective technique. Team learning is structured to enable students to work together toward a common goal, enhancing each other s learning along the way. Because of the emphasis on teamwork and responsibility to one s teammates, team learning builds shared leadership and community accountability.
Students sometimes cover more material working in teams.
Each team will engage in research inside and outside the classroom. They are responsible for exploring an issue and sharing their findings with the entire class. Often the sharing can be accomplished using inventive forms such as panels or video reports or by creating their own websites. Students research a topic, pool their research with that of their teammates, and creatively share their findings with the entire class. Thus, each student is responsible for teaching a part of the lesson to the entire class.