The Science of Collaborative Instruction: How Team Teaching Transforms Student Outcomes in STEM Classrooms

Throughout the educational landscape, an increasingly shared awareness has developed that what and how we teach can have a dramatic impact on what is learned. That is particularly the case in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) classrooms where complex problem-solving, conceptual understanding, and creativity are very important to student performance. A strong system of collective teaching (team teaching) is also one of the most valuable strategies to change the performance of the students in such environments. It allows accessing skills, experience, worldviews and interpersonal relationships of several pedagogues and promotes a more proficient, interactive and engaging learning process. Collaborative instruction: what is it? Collaborative teaching is when two or more teachers plan, deliver and evaluate instruction simultaneously in one classroom. This approach of team-teaching abandons the old-fashioned picture of a lone teacher lecturing a collection of inacti...