Collaborative Teaching Collaborative teaching is somewhat different from simply co-teaching a course, in the traditional sense. In collaborative teaching, the collaborating instructors teach material that spans disciplinary boundaries constructively.
Instructors teach as a team, bringing cross-disciplinary dialogue into a course.
Ideally, a course with this sort of instructional format can reach beyond a course where cooperating faculty members are responsible for separate portions of the curriculum. The key is that students are exposed to the process of collaboration in a transparent and meaningful way. Usually, but not always, students will also learn collaboratively in a course that is taught in this way.