Exploring Mathematics Pedagogy in Collaborative Teaching Environments

Exploring Mathematics Pedagogy in Collaborative Teaching Environments
Bilinda Offen & Naomi IngramThere is an increasing number of collaborative teaching environments in primary schools. A collaborative teaching environment is a teaching situation in which two or more teachers are responsible for the learning outcomes of a number of students commensurate with the ratio of the number of teachers. What might traditionally have been two single classrooms now have two teachers who are responsible for all students in a linked physical environment. We share initial results of a study in which we explore the ways that mathematics is taught in five collaborative environments, and compare these with best practice (Anthony & Walshaw, 2007).