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TEACHING AND TEACHER EDUCATION
Volume 41, Issue -, Pages 1-12Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2014.02.006
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Co-teaching; Collaboration; Resolving co-teaching challenges
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This grounded theory study explored how secondary school co-teachers in an urban Eastern Iowa school district resolved challenges to co-teaching relationships. Five partnerships (N = 10) participated in focus group interviews, interpersonal behavior questionnaires, classroom observations, and individual interviews. The resulting theory, Achieving Symbiosis, explains how co-teaching partnerships became effective in their collaboration through using personal differences and strengths to become interdependent. This theory provides helpful strategies grounded in the field for co-teachers as they seek to begin or improve collaborative teaching relationships, for administrators as they support co-teachers, and for teacher educators as they prepare students for collaborative partnerships. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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