Collaboration for Advancing Classroom Teaching (CoACT)

Collaboration for Advancing Classroom Teaching (CoACT) is a collaborative project between two subjects at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, English Linguistics and Literature, and four upper secondary schools in Västernorrland and Jämtland.

The overall aim of CoACT is to support current and newly qualified students in the subject teacher programme (focusing on grades 7–9 plus upper secondary school) by partly introducing more subject didactic elements in our English courses and partly by doing an inventory of strengths and areas for improvement in the region's schools through a dialogue with working teachers. The specific goals identified through this are to produce a manual for newly qualified English teachers, to start building a digital platform as a resource for both subject and professional development and to design a subject didactic summer course package.