This collection focuses on the issue of collaboration in teacher education. Essays, program descriptions, materials development reports, and educational policy discussions debate the role collaboration may play, and argue the relative effectiveness of various programs based on cooperative effort of different genres. The Florida model in particular is examined. Micro-teaching, performance-based educational principles, and effective organizational design of collaborative programs are treated. The proceedings include statements by a panel of experts in the field of collaborative education as well as presenting four different case studies. (LH)