Day 1 - 19 November 2025 (Wednesday)

  • 12:30: Registration and coffee
     Venue: Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13a, 2000 Antwerpen (A. Dürer Room, 2nd Floor)
  • 13:30: Opening session
  • 14:00: Keynote 1 Katrien Vangrieken (KU Leuven, Belgium)
                  Teacher collaboration: A conceptual and theoretical framework
  • 15:00: Parallel sessions 1 (each presentation: 20' and 10' questions)

Paper session 1.1:

Learning together, designing together

Paper session 1.2:

Rethinking language and content integration through coteaching

Workshop 1.3:

Leading the way together – Strategies to support coteaching

Teacher learning as boundary crossing: A study of interdisciplinary teacher design teams


Edith Koh (University of Groningen, Netherlands)


Collaborate to innovate: Co-Teaching in English-Medium, Interdisciplinary (EMI) courses


Birgit Strotmann &  Alfonso López-Hernández (Comillas Pontifical University, Spain)

Leading the way together: Actionable strategies for supporting co-teaching from the top down

 

Wendy W. Murawski (Teach Global Educational Consulting; California State University, US) & 

Cristina Sacara-Gulløv (University College South Denmark, Denmark)

How to make Lesson Study work in a one-year university-level initial teacher education programme: 

Conditional input factors and challenges


Iris Willems, Wouter Schelfhout & Elke Struyf (University of Antwerp, Belgium)


CoFocus: Enhancing dual focus in CLIL through teacher collaboration


Liesbeth Martens (KU Leuven, University of Applied Sciences UCLL, Belgium), 

Jan Elen (KU Leuven) & Laurence Mettewie (UNamur, Belgium)

  • 16:00: Coffee break​
  • 16:30: Parallel sessions 2 (each presentation: 20' and 10' questions) 

Paper session 2.1:

Inclusive education through shared practice: the power of co-teaching

Paper session 2.2:

Crossing boundaries: interdisciplinary collaborative teams

Implementing co-teaching in pre-primary education: A Finnish multiple case study


Christel Sundqvist, Kristina Ström & Maria Rönn-Liljenfeldt (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)


Inspiration from daily practice: Factors that contribute to successful collaboration in or close to practice


Ina Cijvat, Judith ten Hagen, Angélique Hunkar, Aurelie Lange & Wendy Wesseling (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)


Does an inclusive arrangement involving two teachers working together enhance the didactic accessibility of teaching and learning situations?


Frédéric Dupré, Marie Toulle & Julie Pascaud (Nantes University, France)


When mentoring meets co-teaching: A case study of interprofessional collaboration in a Czech primary school


Alžběta Jurasová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)


Co-teaching to improve teachers’ attitudes and practices towards inclusion


Ester Miquel (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Mariona Corcelles-Seuba (FPCEE Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull, Spain), 

Jesús Ribosa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) & Marta Flores (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)



  • 18:00: End of conference day

Day 2 - 20 November 2025 (Thursday)

  • 09:00: Coffee
  • 09:30: Parallel sessions 3 (each presentation: 20' and 10' questions)

Paper session 3.1:

Co-teaching mathematics: Exploring pedagogical approaches

Paper session 3.2:

Connected to learn: The power of Learning Communities for teachers

Co-teaching mathematics in an inclusive middle school: A comic strip didactic study


Gilles Moreau (Nantes Université, CREN, France)


"Together we can do more and better": How the online learning community of Montessori teachers contributed to the advancement of the educational process


Marija Sablic (University of Osijek, Croatia) & Marija Lesandric (University Slavonski Brod, Croatia)


Co-teaching for powerful mathematics education: A practice-oriented intervention using the ‘routeplanner rekenen’


Lies Lockefeer (HOGENT, Belgium)


Latent profiles of professional learning community participation and teacher attrition intentions: Evidence from TALIS 2018 language teachers in Shanghai and Flanders


Yujiao Liu (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Two are better than one: Improving outcomes through co-teaching


Tammy Barron, Brad Witzel & Malinda Pennington (Western Carolina University, US)


Focus on the development of distinctive PLCs


Fred Huijboom & Pierre van Meeuwen (Open Universiteit, Netherlands)​

  • 11:00: Coffee break
  • 11:30: Keynote 2Thomas Walsh (Maynooth University School of Education, Ireland)
    Teacher collaboration: Global Discourses, local interpretations
  • 12:30: Lunch (included)
  • 13:00: Poster presentations

Teacher & healthcare professional on a path to more inclusive education

Lies Lockefeer (HOGENT, Belgium)

Unveiling teacher profiles based on teaching behaviour in team teaching

(Aron Decuyper (Ghent University, Belgium), Mathea Simons (University of Antwerp, Belgium) & Ruben Vanderlinde (Ghent University, Belgium)

Explaining the effects of team teaching on student achievement through motivational outcomes

Dries De Weerdt, Mathea Simons & Elke Struyf (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

  • 13:45: Selected plenary presentation   Jesús Ribosa & David Duran (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
    Teacher collaboration: Global Discourses, local interpretations
  • 14:30: Parallel sessions 4 (each presentation: 20' and 10' questions)

Paper session 4.1:

Co-teaching as a learning strategy in teacher education

Paper session 4.2:

Collaboration in continuous professional development

Workshop 4.3:

Leading the way together: Strategies to support coteaching

Literature review on the effects of developmental co-teaching on pre-service teachers


Philippe Tremblay (Université Laval, Canada)


Professional learning through connection: An integrated theoretical framework on role models as informal learning agents


Brent Theys (Ghent University, Belgium), Ruben Vanderlinde (Ghent University, Belgium) & Noel Clycq (University of Antwerp, Belgium)


Gaining fluency: Five practices that mediate effective co-teaching between pre-service and mentor teachers


Maris Thompson (California State University, US)

Fostering faculty collaboration through co-teaching: A professional development initiative at the Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile


Ester Miquel & Marta Flores (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)


Teacher collaboration in Continuous Professional Development (CPD) interventions: A systematic review


Georgios Mitsostergios (Technische Universität München, Germany)


  • 15:30: Coffee break
  • 16:00: Parallel sessions 5 (each presentation: 20' and 10' questions)

Paper session 5.1:

Analyzing collaborative teaching strategies

Paper session 5.2:

Collaborative growth: Collaboration and leadership for sustainable school development

What works? An exploration of the collaborative teaching strategies of secondary music educators


Heidi H. Bingham (Alpine School District, US)


Together Continuously Improving Primary Schools: A transformation towards a sustainable Improvement Culture


Sofie Rottiers, Ria De Sadeleer & Mieke Bogaerts (Odisee Hogeschool, Belgium)


Analyzing a co-teaching session in a French primary school: Focus on didactic accessibility


David Gomes, Frédéric Dupré & Minna Puustinen (INSEI, France)


Teacher collaboration design factors: Exploring relations to burnout and engagement


Benjamin Waldejer, Maria Therese Jensen & Oddny Judith Solheim (University of Stavanger, Norway)


Productive conversations in teacher teams: Structure, measurement, and its relevance for professional learning


Flurin Gotsch, Beat Rechsteiner, Hannah Bolten, Katharina Maag Merki (University of Zurich) & Andrea Wullschleger 

(University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland)


Among others: Team-teaching to foster deeper links between formal and non-formal educators


Angela Rickard & Marianne O'Shea (Maynooth University, Ireland)


  • 17:30-18:00: Transfer to reception
  • 18:00: Reception (included)
    Venue: Conference Center Kloosters Grauwzusters, Lange Sint-Annastraat 7, 2000 Antwerpen

Day 3 - 21 November 2025 (Friday)

  • 08:30: Coffee
  • 09:00: Parallel sessions 6 (each presentation: 20' and 10' questions)

Paper session 6.1:

Making collaboration work: Challenges and levers

Symposium 6.2:

ESTAFETT: Exploring, studying and fostering effects of team teaching on students and teachers. Moving beyond perception.

Teacher culture and the implementation of co-teaching from the perspective of Finnish teachers 


Maria Rönn-Liljenfeldt, Christel Sundqvist, Raisa Ahtiainen & Anna Rytivaara (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)


Team teachers’ effective teaching behaviour: A mixed-method study


Aron Decuyper (Ghent University, Belgium), Mathea Simons (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 

& Ruben Vanderlinde (Ghent University, Belgium)


Understanding obstacles for teacher collaboration: A system perspective using Causal Loop Diagrams


Ina Cijvat & Marco Snoek (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands)


Studying the effectiveness of team teaching: Conceptual and methodological essentials


Dries De Weerdt, Mathea Simons & Elke Struyf (University of Antwerp, Belgium)


Induction from a mentor teacher’s perspective: A case study from a Czech primary school


Lucie Grebíková (Masaryk University, The Czech Republic)


Lessons learned from the professional development initiative “Start to teamteach”


Mieke Meirsschaut (Artevelde University of Applied Sciences & Ghent University, Belgium), Bénédicte Vanblaere 

(Antwerp University & Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, Belgium),  Nele De Witte (AP University of Applied Sciences, Belgium), 

Julie D’Haeyer (Artevelde University of Applied Sciences, Belgium) & Iris Willems (AP University of Applied Sciences, Belgium)


  • 10:30: Coffee break
  • 11:00: ​Selected plenary workshop  Wendy W. Murawski (California State University Northridge, US) 

            Co-teaching without borders: Global research, real strategies, and modeled practice

  • 11:45: Closing session
  • 12:15: Lunch (included)