ABSTRACT
The teaching profession engages people, communities, and institutions to address human challenges and enhance individual and social well-being. Helping students to develop these professional competencies and requisite interpersonal interaction skills is the primary goal of social work education. In the context of interactive videoconferencing (IVC) team teaching, the merits of self-reflection and evaluation are obvious in their contribution to ongoing competence building in effective course design, well-organized preparation, and engaging real-time delivery. As professional social workers and professional educators, team teaching makes them better instructors and increases the impact they have in the classroom. To maximize the benefits of team teaching, it is imperative that both instructors invest in careful planning prior to course delivery and systematic preparation for each class session. In social work, people address difficult issues that can be challenging for students both professionally and personally, because there is sometimes dissonance between the values of the social work profession and the value system of the individual student.
