3 Simple Ways to Collaborate with Your Fellow Teachers
By working together, teachers can improve their own individual productivity and carve out niche areas of expertise in their school. This article shares three examples of how teachers can more effectively collaborate with fellow teachers.
Publication Date: September 2021
Publisher: Arizona K–12 Center
Co-Teaching: Co Planning, Co-Instructing, Co-Assessing
This video provides insight and ideas on how to effectively implement co-planning, co-instructing, and co-assessing with co-teaching partners who are both invested.
Author: Katie Mosley
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: IEP Technical Assistance Center
Co-Teaching: Models
This video defines the different co-teaching models and provides implementation considerations. The co-teaching models include one teach one assist, one teach one observe, parallel teaching, team teaching, station teaching, and one teach one make multi-sensory alternative teaching.
Authors: Katie Mosley and Alana Harveth
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: IEP Technical Assistance Center
Co-Teaching: Paraprofessionals
This video reviews the purpose and the role of the paraprofessional. It includes how to effectively utilize support staff in an inclusive classroom and offers support structures that could be implemented.
Author: Alana Harveth
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: IEP Technical Assistance Center
Co-Teaching Series
This six-part video series was designed with today’s educators in mind. Each of the videos in this co-teaching series for teachers has practical insights, ideas, and strategies to help support successful implementation of co-teaching. The end goal is always to better support the diverse needs of each and every student through the implementation of inclusive practices.
Authors: Katie Mosley and Alana Harveth
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: IEP Technical Assistance Center
Co-Teaching as a Mechanism to Deliver Specially Designed Instruction as Part of Special Education Services Within the Context of the General Education Setting
This practice brief explains co-teaching involves embedding special education service within general education lessons with both teachers actively contributing to the instruction of their shared students.
The six classic co-teaching approaches are described with steps to implement co-teaching in your school.
Author: Tammy Barron
Publication Date: December 2024
Publisher: Western Carolina University
Cooperative Teaching
This article explains co-teaching and describes co-teaching at the elementary, middle school, and high school levels. It describes the keys to successful co-teaching and the barriers to effectiveness.
Author: Lisa Dieker
Publisher: Special Connections, University of Kansas
Empowering Collaboration with Technology: Technology that Supports Collaborations
This video explores how technology can enhance various collaborations, including co-teaching. Specific technologies that support collaboration are introduced covering with and between students, with family, and with colleagues. These technologies enable educators to enhance their teaching and engage students more effectively.
Author: Wendy Murawski
Publication Date: March 2025
Publisher: The Center for Innovation, Design, and Digital Learning
Empowering Education: The Impact of Teaming at Mesa Public Schools
This webpage shares the ongoing results of Mesa Public Schools implementing a team-based teaching approach, moving away from the isolated, single-teacher model, in partnership with the Arizona State University (ASU) Next Education Workforce initiative. This effort enhances student learning and supports teachers’ professional development by fostering collaborative and integrated practices.
Publication Date: November 2024
Publisher: Mesa Public Schools
Enhancing Team Functioning in Schools’ Multi-Tiered System of Supports
This Practice Guide can be used by multidisciplinary teams within a multi-tiered system of support as a resource for overcoming challenges and setting up teams for success. The five effective teaming elements are described, as well as how to structure teams to enhance functioning and outcomes within schools.
Authors: Joni Splett, Kelly Perales, Katie Pohlman, Kira Alqueza, Darien Collins, Natalia Gomez,
Ryan Houston-Dial, Brian Meyer, & Mark Weist
Publication Date: June 2024
Publisher: Center on PBIS, University of Oregon
High-Leverage Practices in Special Education Collaboration: Research Syntheses
This high leverage practice describes a clear set of principles that define effective partnerships have emerged from research which emphasize creating trusting partnerships through communication, professional competence, respect, commitment, and advocacy.
Publication Date: October 2020
Publisher: CEEDAR Center
How School Teams Use Data to Make Effective Decisions: Team-Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS)
This practice guide describes a scientifically-based approach for data-based decision-making called Team-Initiated Problem Solving (TIPS) that includes guidance for school-based teams on the foundations needed to run more effective meetings, a process for using data to identify school needs and goals for change as well as for planning practical and effective solutions, and a process for using, monitoring, and adapting solutions.
Authors: Erin Chaparro, Rob Horner, Bob Algozzine, Jessica Daily, and Rhonda Nese
Publication Date: Revised April 2022
Publisher: Center on PBIS, University of Oregon
Leading the Way: Fostering Collaboration Between General and Special Education
Students receiving special education services are general education students first. That’s why it is so important for general and special education leaders and educators to collaborate to provide high-quality educational programming for students with disabilities. This session will focus on the importance of the partnership between general and special education and the role of leaders in that collaboration.
Authors: Timara Davis, Tammie Knights, and Steven Prater
Publication Date: August 2024
Publisher: The PROGRESS Center
OT Collaboration in the Classroom
This webinar explains an occupational therapist's methods to ensure effective collaboration in the school setting and demonstrates ways to incorporate movement breaks in the class routine.
Author: Lisa Davison
Publication Date: December 2023
Publisher: Human Development Center at LSU HSC
Sharing Good Practice: Strategies to Encourage Teacher Collaboration
This article provides information for what teachers stand to gain through collaboration, sharing good practice in teaching and learning, joint practice development, professional learning communities for teachers, and building teacher collaboration school-wide.
Author: Andy Newell
Publication Date: Updated September 2025
Publisher: IRIS Connect
Supporting Teachers in Implementing Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
Having an acknowledgment system is a key feature of a PBIS framework for Tier 1. Many schools tend to focus on student acknowledgment, but building a staff acknowledgment system is also critical. Not only does it model how to give and accept acknowledgment, but it also helps with staff morale and engagement. This brief reviews the importance of staff acknowledgment and how to accomplish it.
Authors: Stephanie St. Joseph, Summer Bottini, Alexandra Pierce, Ellie Harrington, Cynthia
Shuttleton, and Bob Putnam
Publication Date: July 2025
Publisher: Center on PBIS, University of Oregon
The Transformative Power of Teacher Collaboration for Professional Growth
Teacher collaboration is an indispensable tool in modern education, offering a multitude of benefits for educators and students alike. This article explores what teacher collaboration is and why it should be a vital part of an educator’s journey, focusing on how effective collaboration can transform the experience of teaching and learning for teachers and students.
Publication Date: January 2024
Publisher: Acacia University Arizona
Two Heads are Better than One: Developing Effective Co-Teaching
This brief explains the three important elements of co-teaching–quality general education, making the curriculum accessible, and specially designed instruction. The brief stresses that effective teacher development means helping teachers recognize their unique contributions to these processes. It then goes on to highlight how co-teaching is facilitated by technologies that provide opportunities for flexible collaboration and communication.
Authors: Nicholas Hoekstra, Ling Zhang, and James Basham
Publication Date: March 2022
Publisher: The Center for Innovation, Design, and Digital Learning