Coteaching in Teacher Education

A concise and comprehensive overview of the practice of coteaching, including its benefits and educational and social implications.

This book provides a concise and comprehensive overview of the practice of coteaching, including its benefits and educational and social implications. Coteaching plays an important role in enhancing the experience and effectiveness of pre-service and in-service teachers during school experience at a time when teacher retention rates are a concern both nationally and internationally. Traditional practice in school experience, generally comprising observation followed by complete take-over of classes, has not altered in more than a century, despite significant changes in the role of the teacher, the needs of students, the learning environment and the functioning of schools. Coteaching provides a pedagogy which supports pre-service teachers more actively and promotes teacher professional development, as they work together in co-planning, co-practice and co-evaluating lessons during school-based experience. 

Co-teaching in Teacher Education is part of the successful Critical Guides for Teacher Educators series edited by Ian Menter.

1. What is coteaching?
2. Why should coteaching form part of school-based experience? 
3. What is the theoretical basis of coteaching? 
4. How does coteaching work in practice? 
5. How do I become a good coteacher? 
6. What are the strengths and weaknesses of coteaching?
7. How can coteching support 21st century learning in schools?