XLI 9163 - Co-Teaching in the Internship 0 Contact Hours (Offered as needed) The NWFSC Teacher Education Program uses a co-teaching in student teaching model in it's internship semester. Through c0-teaching teacher candidates have the opportunity to co-teach, co-plan, and co-assess lessons with the cooperating mentor teacher. The teacher candidate and cooperating teacher utilize seven co-teach strategies for planning and instruction.