How teaching assistants and teachers cooperate with each other during lessons (KoPrAss)

The use of teaching assistants is becoming increasingly common in schools. However, most teaching assistants do not have any educational training. Their role is to provide teachers with support in dealing with heterogeneous classes and in integrating children with special needs. 

This research project examines how teachers and teaching assistants collaborate with each other by investigating who assumes which tasks during the lessons, and how the roles communicate with each other and compare notes. 
For the project, 36 teacher/teaching assistant teams are filmed during two lessons. They are then interviewed with a view to gaining more in-depth insights into the joint lessons.