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Forming teacher teams is currently the standard way of organizing teachers in Swedish Compulsory Schools. This is the result of a process that started in the 1970s.Traditionally the culture of teaching has been one of isolation. Once the door to the classroom is shut, what happens behind the door is up to the teacher to decide. Over the past thirty years a lot of time has been dedicated to making fundamental changes in the way teachers interact with their colleagues. Today the idea of teachers forming teams is generally accepted but still the core of a Swedish teacher?s job is that of a lone worker. The purpose of this paper is to study how the role of the teacher has been defined in the Swedish curricula of 1962, 1980, 1994 and 2011. Of particular interest is if the teacher role is expected to be solitary or collaborative and if this has changed from the 1960s to the current curriculum of 2011.The theoretical framework consists of the frame factor theory and systemic/role theory. The curricula have been studied using a word search method, identifying sentences with the words teacher or teachers. These sentences have then been coded in different categories depending on what instructional words have used together with the word teacher/teachers. In the analysis, specific interest has been addressed to autonomous (solitary) or homonymous (collaborative) role expectations.The study shows that the teacher role has changed from one curriculum to the other. The state control of the teacher varies through the use of different instructional words. The state control has increased and is strongest in the most recent curriculum of 2011. The study also reveals the fact that Swedish curriculums never have been used to stress to collaborative aspects of being a teacher but rather to stress solitary role expectations.

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