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 2 – Thomas 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)