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The aim of the study is to investigate educators' professional identity. From the narrative approach, identity is formed discursively in speech and narration. In the study, I analysed how and in which dimensions the educators, who worked in the context of co-teaching, were forming professional identity in speech and how the educators narratively positioned themselves in their communities. The investigation of professional identity in the context of co-teaching is relevant due to changing perceptions of teachership and learning. In this multiple case study, three educators were interviewed. All three educators were working in elementary schools in which they were working in the context of co-teaching. Two of the educators were working as a special education teachers and one of the educators as a school aid. All three has also participated my earlier study concerning co-teaching. The data was produced by interviewing the educators in December 2015. Positioning analysis was used in data analysis. In positioning analysis (Bamberg, 2011) the forming of professional identity was analyzed by investigating three dilemmatic dimensions in narration: (1) uniqueness vs. being the same as everyone else, (2) control vs. adaptation and (3) continuity vs. change. In analysis, 58 subject positions were analysed and then divided to four major categories: subject positions in which (1) control is originated from the subject, (2) control isn't originated from the will of a subject, but subject is in control, (3) subject adapts to the world willingly and (4) subject adapts to world unwillingly. In the subject positions in categories (1) and (3) a subject is willingly. These positions were often associated with the relationships with the other educators. In the subject positions in the categories (2) and (4) a subject is unwillingly. In the subject positions, in which an educator was forced to unwillingly control the events (2), the social category of challenging pupils emerged often. Also the subject positions, in which subject adapts to world unwillingly (4), were pictured undesirable. They were related to restrictions in time and space, institutional decision making, institutional structures and social chance including the chance in parenthood and pupils.