Collaboration between University and Secondary School Foreign Language Teachers. One strategy for meeting this challenge is collaborative teaching.
Collaborative teaching can occur in various settings and for different purposes.
Teaching with graduate students is only one way of teaching collaboratively. Other types of collaboration can be considered, depending on the particular needs of the program. This digest discusses the major issues in collaborative teaching and describes a successful collaborative program that paired college faculty with area high school teachers to team-teach introductory French and Spanish courses at the Plattsburgh State University of New York. The process of working with other teachers is itself intellectually stimulating and promotes professional growth. Pedagogical exchanges facilitate coordination and lead to a more coherent teaching structure.