The following study focuses on examining the developing relationship between nursing teachers
who focus on team teaching toddler classrooms. Through this process, the purpose of this paper was
to find ways in which team teaching could have a more positive impact. For this, 7 nursing teachers
with experience in team teaching were selected as the subjects of this study. The subject's journal,
the researcher's reflections, individual interviews, and team interviews were used to collect data for
the study. Research has shown that toddler class team teaching nursing teachers are grouped not by
their will but by someone else, and due to this process, the relationship is first established anywhere
from being positive to a feeling of fear for certain nursing teachers. Although at the early stages of
the relationship, there seemed to have been difficulties in dealing with the differences in their
linguistic habits and views on education, over a period of 1 year, there were remarkable efforts in
attempting to accommodate one another. However, as time passed, continued inequalities in the
division of labor, increases in teacher to toddlers ratio, sharing of classroom space, evaluations, and
other issues have magnified the conflicts. Despite these conflicts, the teachers were trying to increase
personal relationships with one another, and take up a more positive attitude of 'me first' in order to
teach and learn in a cooperative manner. By utilizing the findings of the research, it was identified
that the following efforts should be made in order to have the most out of team teaching. First,
there needs to be a focus on creating an atmosphere of respecting the nursing teacher's opinions at
the day care center. Second, the process of setting an academic goal should be through a cooperative
process between the nursing teachers, and a joint effort should be made to achieve that shared goal.
Third, there needs to be an outlet for sharing the culture of team teaching just for toddler classes
by nursing teachers.