Collaborative teaching for teacher educators-What does the research say?

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 569-574

  Nevin, Ann I ^a,b   Thousand, Jacqueline S ^c   Villa, Richard A ^d  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Bayridge Consortium Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Co teaching; Inclusive education; Teacher preparation

Indexed keywords

EID: 63349096620     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2009.02.009     Document Type: Article

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