ABSTRACT
Co-operative teaching can take a number of forms, but it must be emphasized that it is not just about placing two teachers in a room with a class. In practice the concern and attention of the co-operative partners in this enterprise will be constantly changing. Co-operative teaching is about people: it must centre around the range of pupil need and potential; the contributions, concerns, and commitment of the teachers and the contribution and involvement of parents, colleagues, and other professionals. If the work is to be genuinely co-operative and the response to the broad range of learning difficulties truly integrated. Then the teachers will share in the debate about the appropriateness of the curriculum to the range of pupil need and ability. The general impression is of a process beginning to change schools and classrooms in Scotland for the better in terms of the educational well-being of pupils with learning difficulties.
