Longitudinal co-teaching projects - Scoping review

Abstract

The main orientations of education policy with a view to the next decade include, inter alia, promoting educational innovation and verifying it through further professional development of teaching staff and exploring the effectiveness of learning. One of the possibilities of achieving this goal is co-teaching and its forms, which are constantly evolving. The aim of this study is to provide an overview of approaches not only to the actual implementation of co-teaching, but also to the whole process of preparation in order to evaluate the experience gained in a number of researches already carried out, in the form of an overview study. An inductive thematic analysis of published articles in 2005-2020, with a predominance of attention for the period 2019 and 2020, was used in 16 databases such as ERIC, Scopus®, Complementary Index, etc. As a result, 19 articles were finally included in the analysis of the issues examined. Inductive thematic analysis identified six themes: (1) "co-teaching effectiveness", (2) "problems and obstacles", (3) "methods of and with co-teaching", (4) "teachers' roles and relationships", (5) "teachers' cooperation", and (6) "special educational needs" (SEN). The scoping review study covers the theoretical basis of co-teaching issues, the results of research surveys or experiments on the procedures, advantages or barriers of various co-teaching models. The study serves as a basic framework supporting the creation and application of a virtual component as a new part of the educational method of co-teaching solved by the TACR project.