Team Teaching in the Secondary Schools of England and Wales.

Abstract Since John Freeman's survey of team teaching in England and Wales in 1969 little has been written on the subsequent progress of this form of school organisation. This article summarises the main findings of a research study concerned with the position of team teaching in the secondary schools during the academic year 1983‐84. It is found that since 1969 the term ‘team teaching’ has been applied to a number of different approaches, and an attempt is made to identify these. Attention is then paid to the development over the past 15 years of the type of team teaching which was popularised by Freeman, and the argument is advanced that it has failed to establish itself as a permanent strategy in many schools. Reasons for this are discussed, and a brief account is given of the nature and organisation of schemes currently in operation.