MAY TEACHERS CO-TEACH DURING A BMEP INSTRUCTIONAL HOUR IF THE DISTRICT DOES NOT EMPLOY A TEACHER THAT HOLDS THE REQUIRED ENDORSEMENTS TO TEACH A BMEP INSTRUCTIONAL HOUR? BMEP teachers of record must hold the required endorsements for the instructional hour. Co-teaching is defined as shared responsibility for jointly teaching within the same classroom. ABMEP instructional hour with co-teaching is not eligible for state BMEP funding. However, BMEP teachers may team teach. Team teaching is a collaborative situation in which two or more teachers share responsibility for the content area instruction of a group of students. That is, one BMEP teacher may teach one instructional hour or content area and another BMEP teacher may teach another instructional hour or content area. For example, a teacher that holds the required Native American Language and Culture (NACL) certification may teach the 1st hour of BMEP instruction/content area (language arts in the home or heritage language) and another teacher that holds the required Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) endorsement may teach the 2nd hour of BMEP instruction/content area English as a second language/English language development (ESL/ELD). In the case of a dual language program, one teacher may teach the home or heritage language instructional hours/content areas and another teacher may teach the English language instructional hours/content areas.