<p>Katonahmom: team teaching sounds fine to me as a general principle. I agree generally with the statment that disciplines are not part of the real world. In the olden days, before structured education for the majority of people (and still in some places today) students would find a master to learn from, and that person would teach ["wisdom"?] across subject lines as he wished, in order to impart knowledge and understanding. But things to be taught usually have to be broken up into subjects in today's educational world.</p>
<p>Of course, teaching across subjects can lessen the need to train someone to think "outside the box" [pardon the expression, please] by not puting him/her into the box so much in the first place.</p>
<p>But I was addressing teaching teamwork to meet so-called business desires rather than team teaching.</p>