Collaboration

What is collaboration?
Quick activity on collaboration. We had to work together with our buddy teacher to create a short presentation on what collaboration is.
Here is our presentation.

To be collaborate both of us needed to work together to achieve the same goal. We both had equal roles in this activity and were constantly discussing what was happening next. This was a fun activity as it reinforced what we needed to do to be collaborative. Our staff is beginning to work more collaboratively together and I find that I need to make the time to work with my buddy class more so that we can align teaching and learning. This is important so that we are both working around the same areas and also not planning the same thing when we can work together or share resources more.

Collaborative inquiries

As a staff we sat together and I lead a bus stop discussion around our student survey data. We decided that there were 3/4 areas that we wanted to work around and discussed what are the ways we can support our students to be more confident when talking, sharing and questioning around their learning. Here are our ideas.
We then chose one area each that we would like to focus on to work around with our class. I decided that one area I would like to focus on in my teaching is encouraging students to check in more with their learning goals and be able to reflectively talk about their learning. I need to give them more opportunities to be reflective and use the buddies in their class to grow confidence before they talk to me the teacher, their parents or others.