The 4 c's of the 21st century skills we should now be imparting to students includes 'collaboration' along with creativity, communication and critical thinking. So it makes sense that teachers should collaborate and work together as much as possible to ease one another's workload and demonstrate collaborative work. I personally love teamwork and love hearing alternate views to my own and my thinking challenged but I also love if I am able to assist and advance someone else's knowledge and skills from my own experience. A teacher need not be a solo performer, who does everything. There is no 'I' in team! I'm looking forward to view the linked video as well!
I think it’s tricky because a pedagogy is a personal thing, I can’t just share resources with you if I’m doing things that are consistent with my beliefs about teaching and learning, and often vice versa - atleast that’s been my experience. Which makes the whole ‘shared lesson plans’ / ‘resources provided for all teachers’ a bit odd to me. Everyone develops their own system and model, whilst some shared elements might be present, the enactment will almost never be the same.
Preach! I see a lot of 'cooperation' in teacher life - e.g. sharing resources, covering classes. Also 'communication' and 'community'. But collaboration...I'm with you: nah. You need to form a trusting relationship with someone else, and have time to work with them in ways that best utilise both/all your traits, to collab. Some teacher activities do involve collaboration, but when I try to name them they are arts-based or project-based e.g. putting on the school musical; coordinating the sports carnival. I find day-to-day classroom teaching to be very solitary, especially in staffrooms where teachers bolt out the door at 3pm (I'm now one of these because I have kid/home duties), leaving little time to talk. I bet the answer is different in small schools, but I've only ever worked in big.
Lots of co-operation, I’ll spot you that yard duty, if you do the same later - I see lots of ‘collaboration’ that boils down to one T doing all the work and lots of mooching. Agree, I’ve been both the hang around and the leave asap teacher lol! Did you find more collaboration at HE level?
The 4 c's of the 21st century skills we should now be imparting to students includes 'collaboration' along with creativity, communication and critical thinking. So it makes sense that teachers should collaborate and work together as much as possible to ease one another's workload and demonstrate collaborative work. I personally love teamwork and love hearing alternate views to my own and my thinking challenged but I also love if I am able to assist and advance someone else's knowledge and skills from my own experience. A teacher need not be a solo performer, who does everything. There is no 'I' in team! I'm looking forward to view the linked video as well!
I think it’s tricky because a pedagogy is a personal thing, I can’t just share resources with you if I’m doing things that are consistent with my beliefs about teaching and learning, and often vice versa - atleast that’s been my experience. Which makes the whole ‘shared lesson plans’ / ‘resources provided for all teachers’ a bit odd to me. Everyone develops their own system and model, whilst some shared elements might be present, the enactment will almost never be the same.
Preach! I see a lot of 'cooperation' in teacher life - e.g. sharing resources, covering classes. Also 'communication' and 'community'. But collaboration...I'm with you: nah. You need to form a trusting relationship with someone else, and have time to work with them in ways that best utilise both/all your traits, to collab. Some teacher activities do involve collaboration, but when I try to name them they are arts-based or project-based e.g. putting on the school musical; coordinating the sports carnival. I find day-to-day classroom teaching to be very solitary, especially in staffrooms where teachers bolt out the door at 3pm (I'm now one of these because I have kid/home duties), leaving little time to talk. I bet the answer is different in small schools, but I've only ever worked in big.
Lots of co-operation, I’ll spot you that yard duty, if you do the same later - I see lots of ‘collaboration’ that boils down to one T doing all the work and lots of mooching. Agree, I’ve been both the hang around and the leave asap teacher lol! Did you find more collaboration at HE level?