Team teaching can be a valuable means of enabling cross-disciplinary collaboration, interdisciplinary study, and pedagogical innovation, but the logistical and intellectual challenges can seem too daunting to overcome. In this essay, we share the story of how four faculty members from professional writing, communications, and computing sciences developed a team teaching “family” as we imagined, created, launched, and ran an innovative experiential learning program at our university. The Design Thinking Studio in Social Innovation is a semester-long program worth four full courses of credit which brought us together with 14 intrepid students from across the university to learn and apply design thinking, Scrum project management, and social innovation theories to a large-scale civic engagement project. Here we explore the faculty lived experience during the pilot semester and how our teach teaching family was crucial to our personal and professional success in this high-stress environment. We then offer tips for creating your own team teaching “family.”

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创造性创新需要（团队教学）家庭

团队教学可以成为实现跨学科合作、跨学科研究和教学创新的宝贵手段，但后勤和智力挑战似乎过于艰巨而难以克服。在这篇文章中，我们分享了来自专业写作、通信和计算机科学的四名教职员工如何在我们的大学想象、创建、启动和运行一个创新的体验式学习计划时，开发了一个团队教学“家庭”的故事。社会创新中的设计思维工作室是一个为期一学期的课程，价值四门完整的学分课程，它让我们与来自全校的 14 名勇敢的学生一起学习并将设计思维、Scrum 项目管理和社会创新理论应用于大型规模公民参与项目。在这里，我们探讨了试点学期期间教师的生活经验，以及我们的教学家庭如何在这种高压力环境中对我们的个人和职业成功至关重要。然后，我们提供创建自己的团队教学“家庭”的技巧。