I've noticed that, with public schools at least, the idea is to get one teacher and a group of students. Once we Art Ed students get past these team-taught student lessons we will probably never co-teach again. On the one hand it's probably a good thing, since there's never any disagreements between the teachers about what to teach. Also this keeps down the number of students per class. On the other hand, it's a shame because so many great ideas come from your peers, and two teachers teaching together can feed off and fire up one another. Indeed, having a co-teacher would also allow both teachers to get feedback on how to improve their teaching and what they're doing well.
(As an explicatory aside, a co-teacher is not the same as a TA; co-teachers are both equal, whereas a TA is an assistant to the teacher)
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