Making collaborative teaching more effective for academically able students: Recommendations for implementation and training

Collaborative teaching is being used more and more in serving academically able students with disabilities, including a large number of students with learning disabilities. The focus of this article is a series of recommendat ions to improve collaborative teaching. The recommendations were generated as a result of an intensive study of collaborative teaching in elementary, middle, and high school programs through interviews with administrators, te achers, parents, and students. The recommendations are divided into (a) gen eral recommendations addressing service delivery, administrative, and commu nication issues and (b) training recommendations for new and indirectly inv olved personnel, parents, and university pre- and inservice programs.