Teachers collaboration with each other leads to more informed teachers, and the potential for teachers to use more effective practices in their classroom. In turn, this collaboration leads to a better quality of education for all learners. Still though, on a more simple level, collaboration can also mean that teachers learn from the mistakes of others, and even ways to save time and do in things more efficiently in their classrooms.
Collaboration between teachers and parents is another obvious gain from collaboration. In this high paced world, technology allows for greater chance for collaboration between parents and students. Likewise through that collaboration, it has the potential to lead to greater educational support at home. Also, through parent collaboration teachers may gain better insight to the whole child, and also be on the same page about things such as homework with their parents.
Lastly, there is a quote that says "It takes a village to raise a child" and collaboration between educators and collaboration between educators and parents allows for a better chance for that to happen.
I find your comment about how teachers learn through the mistakes of others. Teachers can post, candidly, about mistakes they made, problems that surfaced in the classroom without putting a face to it. No one likes to admit they made a mistake, and yes we can all learn from other's mistakes. So, I find it interesting that technology can keep us private, yet very public at the same time.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Teachers need to learn from their mistakes (as well as the mistakes of others), and technology allows them to do that in way that is easier than in the past.
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