Framework Basics
This is the national framework designed to improve collaboration among teachers in Jamaican schools.
What is the Expanded Team Teaching Framework (ETTF)?
In this model, one teacher delivers instruction while the other circulates to support individuals.
What is One Teach, One Assist?
This school-based leader forms and leads the school’s team teaching group.
Who is the School-based Liaison?
This tool tracks whether schools are completing each implementation step.
What is the Implementation Checklist?
These modules cover topics such as reflective sessions, roles and responsibilities, and data use.
What are the Asynchronous PD Modules?
The ETTF is built on this number of pillars.
What are five pillars?
In this model, teachers split the class into two and deliver the same lesson simultaneously.
What is Parallel Teaching?
These officers provide regional oversight and help monitor implementation fidelity.
Who are Supervisory Education Officers?
Teams use these meetings to analyze student results and adjust teaching.
What are Data Team Meetings?
One PD tool that provides quick prompts and strategies for teachers to use.
What are Strategy Cards?
One pillar focuses on creating supportive policies and resources.
What is Support Systems?
This arrangement allows teachers to divide content into segments, with students rotating through learning stations.
What is Station Teaching?
This officer works directly with school liaisons to guide implementation.
Who is the Core Curriculum Liaison Officer?
This cycle includes collecting, analyzing, interpreting, acting, and reviewing.
What is the Data Review Cycle?
In reflective sessions, teachers use these to structure discussion and improvement.
What are Protocols and Reflection Templates?
This pillar tracks the success of team teaching interventions.
What is Outcomes & Impact?
When a specialist and classroom teacher collaborate to meet student needs, this arrangement is used.
What is Teacher–Specialist Collaboration?
These are the three responsibilities of the school-based liaison (any 3 correct).
What are (1) lead team teaching structures, (2) support collaborative planning, (3) facilitate data teams and reflective sessions?
One way students’ perspectives are captured in the ETTF data collection.
What is the Student Voice Survey?
This is the ultimate goal of professional development in the ETTF.
What is strengthening collaborative practice to improve student learning?