Co-teaching is full of possibilities. Co-teachers enter into the co-teaching experience optimistically, hopefully and expectantly, wanting this co-facilitator to be the right person in the right place at the right time. This is an opportunity to “make a difference”, “to reach a vision”. They are there to “represent each other and the profession”, to “take a creative place in the community”. Every relationship is a possible recommendation, a lead to new contacts, an opportunity to build individual and collective reputations. Co-teachers “commit to something long-term”, to something “enriching and worthwhile”.

Co-teachers look for, and express, “good intentions, “passion and commitment” and their “willingness to make it work”, but gently because energy, excitement and involvement can be intimidating. They are “equal but not the same”.

There is some apprehension, too. There is no model for the co-teaching experience, no one right way to co-facilitate; all they can do is respond to individuals, the group and each other. Every experience is unique.