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The purpose of this study was to find out what kind of collaboration the classroom teachers had with other teachers, and whether the experience of collegial collaboration was related to classroom teachers' conceptions of ability. There is an increasing emphasis on collaboration in schools, so research on collegial collaboration is topical. Collaboration between classroom teachers was classified using a collaborative model for different needs, which includes every way to collaborate. The research questions were influenced by their own interests in cooperation and previous research results on teacher cooperation. A total of 46 classroom teachers participated in the study, but the material contained 45 useful answers for the study. Class teachers participated in the research all over Finland. Class teachers were asked to participate in the research through social media and email. The material was collected primarily through a questionnaire, after which the class teachers had the opportunity to participate in the interview if they so wished. The interview was conducted as a semi-structured interview. The classroom teachers had tried and worked with a variety of collaborators with other teachers. For the most part, the class teachers had done collaborative teaching and joint planning with others. Class teachers said they were the ones who benefited the most from collaborating by sharing ideas and materials with others. On average, the highest personal teaching ability was found among class teachers who taught for 5 to 10 years and general teaching ability among those who taught between 0 and 5 years. Personal teaching ability was found to be the weakest among those teaching 0-5 years and the lowest overall teaching ability among those teaching 5-10 years. In fact analysis, the claims loaded for the most part as in previous studies. Minor exceptions were noted. A statistically significant association was found between the classroom teachers' conceptions of ability and the perceived benefit of organizational needs.