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Tiivistelmä - Referat – Abstract Objectives. The aim of this study is to analyze and interpret team-teachers' perceptions of co-teaching within a craft education project, in co-operation with Helsinki University´s Co4Lab-research. Co-teaching is commonly understood as a teaching method, where two or more teachers equally share the responsibility of planning, implementation and evaluation of teaching. There are many methods of co-teaching and it is said that team-teaching is the most intensive and well-developed method. The study explains how team-teaching is co-planned and arranged and how it has developed during the project. The main part of the study is give a voice to teachers who are doing co-teaching together. As a result, the study also gives examples of co-teaching methods used in a craft education project. Methods. A total of 4 teachers from one metropolitan area elementary school took part in this study. Three of the participating teachers were class teaches and one was a craft teacher. The teachers were interviewed in the summer of 2017, using a semi-structured theme interview and the research material was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. There was also limited documentation from the Co4Lab-research, collected earlier by other researchers. Results and Conclusions. The study highlighted that team-teaching is a very functional method of teaching in a craft project. Team-teaching has slowly develop good choice by the years teachers has used it as a teaching method. Co-planning and teamwork has got easier year by year, and teamwork has helped the leading of this kind of an educational project. The key elements of successful team-teaching were well-arranged co-planning, conversations with colleagues and the feeling of shared responsibility of teaching and evaluation. Collegial support was an essential part of team-teaching. Whenever teachers felt that they did not know enough about the technical craft details of the project, they could rely on their team-member and learn from each other. Some teachers had other strengths; such as giving more support in education, structured teaching and schedules. It doesn´t take so much time to co-teach: small conversations with a team partner can lead to successful team-teaching.