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). Room: Tassis
Teamwork makes the dream work. Or doesn’t it? Effective collaboration as a learning journey
- 15:00: Parallel sessions 1 (each presentation: 20' and 10' questions)
| Paper session 1.1: Learning together, designing together Room: Tassis | Paper session 1.2: Rethinking language and content integration through coteaching Room: Gresham | Workshop 1.3: Leading the way together – Strategies to support coteaching Room: Elsschot |
| 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) |
| 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), Laurence Mettewie (UNamur, Belgium) & Jan Elen (KU Leuven) |
- 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 Room: Tassis | Paper session 2.2: Crossing boundaries: interdisciplinary collaborative teams Room: Elsschot |
| Implementing co-teaching in pre-primary education: A Finnish multiple case study Christel Sundqvist, Kristina Ström & Maria Rönn-Liljenfeldt (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) | Understanding obstacles for teacher collaboration: A system perspective using Causal Loop Diagrams Ina Cijvat & Marco Snoek (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands) |
| Frédéric Dupré, Marie Toulle & Julie Pascaud (Nantes University, France) | 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) | Gaining fluency: Five practices that mediate effective co-teaching between pre-service and mentor teachers Maris Thompson (California State University, US)
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- 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 Room: Tassis | Paper session 3.2: Connected to learn: The power of Learning Communities for teachers Room: Elsschot |
| Co-teaching mathematics in an inclusive middle school: A comic strip didactic study Gilles Moreau (Nantes Université, CREN, France) | Marija Sablic (University of Osijek, Croatia) & Marija Lesandric (University Slavonski Brod, Croatia) |
| Lies Lockefeer (HOGENT, Belgium) | 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). Room: Tassis
Teacher collaboration: Global discourses, local interpretations - 12:30: Lunch (included)
- 13:00: Poster presentations - Room: Tassis
| 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, Catalunya, Spain). Room: Tassis
Four eyes see more than two: On the benefits of reciprocal peer observation as a team teaching model
- 14:30: Parallel sessions 4 (each presentation: 20' and 10' questions)
| Paper session 4.1: Co-teaching as a learning strategy in teacher education Room: Tassis | Paper session 4.2: Collaboration in continuous professional development Room: Elsschot | |
| Literature review on the effects of developmental co-teaching on pre-service teachers Philippe Tremblay (Université Laval, Canada) | Brent Theys (Ghent University, Belgium), Ruben Vanderlinde (Ghent University, Belgium) & Noel Clycq (University of Antwerp, Belgium) | |
| Ester Miquel & Marta Flores (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain) | 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 Room: Elsschot | Paper session 5.2: Collaborative growth: Collaboration and leadership for sustainable school development Room: Tassis |
| What works? An exploration of the collaborative teaching strategies of secondary music educators Heidi H. Bingham (Alpine School District, US) | 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) |
| 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 Room: Tassis | Symposium 6.2: ESTAFETT: Exploring, studying and fostering effects of team teaching on students and teachers. Moving beyond perception Room: Elsschot |
| 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) |
| Ina Cijvat, Judith ten Hagen, Angélique Hunkar, Aurelie Lange & Wendy Wesseling (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 team teach” 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). Room: Tassis
Co-teaching without borders: Global research, real strategies, and modeled practice
- 11:45: Closing session
- 12:00: Lunch (included)