Co-teaching

Co-teaching refers to a lesson delivered simultaneously by two or more teachers, in the same room, with the same student audience.

Omniscol models this case simply: a course can have several instructors. Each of them is credited with the lesson in their statistics and their service hours.

Typical cases

• Reinforced supervision — a permanent teacher + a teaching assistant, or two teachers for a large group.
• One-off visiting professor — a course whose session of the day is co-taught by an external instructor (see adjunct / external teacher).
• Co-leads — a module taught by a pair of teachers throughout the semester.
• Dual expertise — a multidisciplinary module (for example "IT for healthcare" with a physician and a computer scientist).

Difference from alternation

Co-teaching means two teachers at the same time on the same lesson. Alternation (alternate lessons) means two teachers on the same time slot, but on different weeks.

If your two teachers alternate every week but are never together, those are alternate lessons, not co-teaching.

If one of them only takes part in a few one-off sessions, the simplest approach is to create a separate course for those specific dates with the visiting professor, in addition to the main course — especially in calendar mode.