Ensure Conversations About Collaboration Get Results. This book lays out the theory and practice of Collaborative Professionalism. Through five international case studies, the authors distinguish Collaborative Professionalism from professional collaboration by highlighting intentional collaborative designs and providing concrete examples for how to be more purposeful with collaboration. Additionally, the book makes Collaborative Professionalism accessible to all educators through clear take-aways including: Ten core tenets, including Collective Efficacy, Collaborative Inquiry, and Collaborating With Students. Graphics indicating how educators can move from mere professional collaboration to the deep and transformative work of Collaborative Professionalism. Analysis of which collaborative practices educators should start doing, keep doing, and stop doing Collaboration can be one of your most powerful educational tools when used correctly, and turned into action. This book shows you how.
The authors set out and comment on a number of different collaborative designs that are intended as structures and strategies to improve collaboration among educators in ways that enhance equity and excellence in student learning.
... 1999; Cooper & Brown, chapter 1, this volume).2 Teacher teaming as a reform emphasis can also be traced in part to a renewal of interest in the “middle-school paradigm” (Clark ... However, fewer 104 J. John Dewey and Sharon Conley.
This book features: (1) a powerful and practical solution to what ails American schools; (2) Action guidelines for all groups--individual teachers, administrators, schools and districts, state and federal leaders; (3) a next-generation ...
This book provides concrete guidance for creating the conditions for collaboration in which teachers are moved toward—rather than repelled—by joint work.
Become disciplined and deliberative with data as you design and implement program improvements to enhance student learning. This book delves into the five habits of inquiry that contribute to professional learning.
Presenting examples of innovative practices and collaborative settings from twelve European countries, this book offers new and inspiring perspectives on how music schools can support the transformation towards collaborative professionalism ...
Praise for Teacher Collaboration for Professional Learning "This volume covers everything teachers need to know to initiate collaborative research.
... collaborative professionalism is grounded in: • Professional learning that supports and enables the conditions for ... collaborative professionalism, though Canadian schools seem more proficient than most. Bringing us up-to-date, Andy ...
This volume explores the value of teacher collaboration in meeting the needs of diverse English language learners (ELLs).
Montgomery and Akerson (2019) elaborate on why this problem persists: “One of the biggest challenges to authentic collaboration includes finding a common time to meet together and plan lessons” (p. 8). The virtual absence of co-planning ...