Last Year: Team Teaching at School 7

William Paterson University’s Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Grant emphasizes teacher collaboration and cross-curricular teaching.  In the picture below, Art Professor in Residence Myra Winter discusses integrating Art into Math and Science with Science teachers Mary Bertino and Marla Arrington and Math teachers Rosa Kopic and Melissa Bensh.

Later in the school year, this collaboration came to fruition when the seventh grade Math and Science teachers team-taught with Art teacher Vernon Nealy to create “presentation boxes” that integrated Art, Geometry and Biology.  In the picture at the left Mr. Nealy explains the project to students while Ms. Winter assists a student and Ms. Arrington looks on.

In the fifth grade a cross-curricular project focused on liquid volume measurement and conversions among units.  In the picture at the right Ms. Bertino, Ms. Kopic, Mr. Nealy, and Ms. Winter team up to present the lesson.