Vol. 9 No. 2 (2019): Co-Teaching in Rural Contexts: Exploring Collaboration in the Classroom

The articles selected for this issue of Theory & Practice in Rural Education (TPRE) explore the use of co-teaching in ways that speak to the reorganization of resources, specifically teachers and staff, to meet the learning needs of all students; the effects of co-teaching on student learning within rural settings; and the adaptation of co-teaching within teacher education to prepare more collaborative novice teachers. This special issue includes articles reporting on encouraging research being done in rural classrooms, a case study of a distance education program’s creative use of co-teaching, as well as promising practices of co-teaching in teacher education.