ABSTRACT
Good teamwork is notoriously difficult to achieve. In industry, an enormous research effort on the workings of teams attests to the truth of this fact.
The issue of effective teamwork in classrooms is more important now than it has ever been. Although team teaching may have had its heyday, a new kind of classroom team is emerging. The new teams are more widespread and more varied than those which arose from the move to team teaching. The new teams are generated principally from two main trends: the trend to integration of children with special needs, and the trend to parental involvement. The former results in personnel formerly associated with special settings (special schools, withdrawal rooms, etc.), moving to the mainstream classroom to work alongside the classteacher. The latter results in far greater numbers of parents working in tlle classroom than would ever have been the case previously.
