Setting Up a Collaborative Teaching Plan
Teachers Collaborate on Classroom Management and Lesson Planning
Setting up a collaborative plan helps create positive relations with other teachers. New teachers need to be careful not to take on the business of isolated lesson planning and often this pattern of working can lead to quick teacher burnout. If you are fortunate to have planning hours at your school, you probably already understand how important it is to develop collaborative teacher relationships early on in your teaching career.
Collaborate on Differentiated Instruction
New and seasoned teachers can meet in grade level teams during a planning period once a week. Every week they look at various subjects and focus on a particular group in need. As a collaborative teaching unit, they can then work on special intervention and plan lessons around a targeted group of students. The best route is to try a lesson on the group using special intervention strategies. In collaborative teaching and planning groups, they can discuss problematic areas for math assessments for example and what they need to do with this group particularly in terms of providing for their support and literacy.
Teachers Can Develop Rubrics Together
New teachers are often under the impression they need to mark and grade every single piece of classwork, homework, project, etc. Teachers who teach similar grade levels and abilities can easily plan rubrics to help with the planning and grading stages.
Sharing Success is Part of a Collaborative Plan Too
New teachers tend to isolate themselves rather quickly. It’s true: there’s a lot to learn about the teaching business, but it doesn’t always have to be about surviving in the classroom. Present to other teachers a topic that you've experienced a degree of success.
Remember, it is important to share your early success. This will help also to boost your confidence. More experienced teachers can always learn new ideas. The saying: “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks" is not always true.
Teachers Grow Professionally by Keeping a Reflective Journal
New teachers don’t always record their early experiences. Keeping a teaching journal is a great idea especially in the early years; it helps with the reflective and planning process. By recording experiences in a reflective journal, new and seasoned teachers can learn from each other which activities were successful and which weren't. This has also implication implications for productive collaboration.
New Teachers Develop Classroom Management Plans
Every classroom management plan should focus on how to effectively engage learners. Discuss possible solutions for handling various classroom management situations and discipline problems.
Use this article to check yourself when building your teaching collaboration unit. Developing positive collaborative teaching relationships will help raise your confidence and soon often, you’ll be well on your way to learning how to become an effective teacher.
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