Co-Teaching In Higher Education

Abstract

This paper will describe a project that includes 16 university level co-taught classes. Preparation of the faculty co-teaching along with results from the study will be shared.

Preparing the Leadership Educator Through Graduate Education

“…There are many available approaches of coinstructor modeling, including collaborative teaching (Dugan & Letterman, ), coteaching, parallel teaching, and team teaching to name a few (Bacharach, Washut Heck, & Dahlberg, ). For the purposes of this discussion, the authors use the team‐teaching model outlined by Bacharach et al.…”

“…For the purposes of this discussion, the authors use the team‐teaching model outlined by Bacharach et al. (). We use this model because instructors plan together and the teaching is collaborative with both instructors interacting and responding to students.…”

“…We use this model because instructors plan together and the teaching is collaborative with both instructors interacting and responding to students. When using this model, the authors point out “that well planned, team taught, lessons exhibit an invisible flow of instruction with no prescribed division of authority” (Bacharach et al., , p. 11). When teaching leadership, it is also important to demonstrate effective collaboration between people in positions of authority (i.e., in this case the teachers).…”

Creative Innovation Takes a (Team Teaching) Family

“…Co-teaching is often cited as the higher-order term, with team teaching being a species of co-teaching. In a hierarchy of co-teaching activities outlined by Cook and Friend (1995) and updated by Bacharach, Heck, and Dahlberg (2008), team teaching is the most collaborative and intensive version of co-teaching in which the co-teachers share instruction time, student interaction, and overall authority in the classroom. For our purposes here, we borrow from these precursors to define co-teaching as the purposeful and intentional partnership between two or more instructors, preferably from different disciplines or specialties, who collaboratively develop, plan, deliver, adapt, and assess coursework for one group of shared students in a single physical or online space (Bacharach et al, 2008;Brody, 1994;Cook & Friend, 1995;Crow & Smith, 2005;Lock, et al, 2016;Roth & Tobin, 2004).…”

Internationalising education – Cross-country co-teaching among European higher education institutions

“…Co-teaching is widely known as a method that facilitates the learning of groups with diverse abilities or special needs (Austin, 2001;Murawski & Lee Swanson, 2001). However, its application at the higher education level is less intensively studied (Bacharach, Heck, & Dahlberg, 2008). Wenzlaff et al (2002, p. 14) define co-teaching as "two or more individuals who come together in a collaborative relationship for the purpose of shared work […] for the outcome of achieving what none could have done alone."…”