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Essential Understanding…

Essential Understanding…. Collaboration is a skill that is learned and practiced. Think back to a “nightmare” small group experience…. What happened? How did this impact your participation? How did this impact the outcome of the group?. Connect. Pair, Share….

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Essential Understanding…

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  1. Essential Understanding… Collaboration is a skill that is learned and practiced.

  2. Think back to a “nightmare” small group experience… • What happened? • How did this impact your participation? • How did this impact the outcome of the group? Connect

  3. Pair, Share…. • Share your experience with your group. • What commonalities can you find? Attend

  4. Which image best captures the essence of collaboration? Image

  5. What Works for Collaboration? • Shared meaning and purpose • Structure • Strategies • Skills • Your ideas… Inform

  6. What Works for Collaboration:Shared Meaning and Purpose… “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” - Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

  7. What Works for Collaboration: Structure • Collaborative Teaming: • Establishing group norms • Common goal(s) • Parity • Distributed functions theory • Ongoing processing

  8. Stages of Collaborative Team Development…

  9. What Works for Collaboration: Strategies • Obstacles to Problem Solving: • Lack of clarity in stating the problem • Failure to obtain needed information • Poor communication within the group • Premature testing of alternative strategies • Critical, evaluative competitive climate • Pressure to conform • Lack of inquiry or problem-solving skills • Inadequate motivation

  10. What Works for Collaboration: Skills Communicator: ______________ verbal/written nonverbal/unwritten • Culturally sensitive • Tone of respect • Honest/sincere • Clear • Concise • Straightforward understood COMMUNICATION Receiver ____________ • Technical jargon • Excessive • Vague • Timing is off • Distancing • Formality misunderstood

  11. Co-teaching requires… …a commitment to the evolution of the collaborative process. In our experience, the overall success of co-teaching hinges on one major factor: communication between teachers. If both teachers are committed to the process, co-teaching has the potential for increased achievement for students - and continued professional growth for both general and special educators. Dieker, L. A. & Barnett, C. A. (1996). Effective co-teaching. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 17, 5-7.

  12. Six Models of Co-Teaching

  13. Small Group Activity • Select one of the six models of co-teaching • Describe a real (or hypothetical) example of your selected model of co-teaching • Think about the pros and cons of this model of co-teaching Practice & Extend

  14. Processing “Turn to your neighbor” processing activity Turn to the student to your left and provide them with one specific example of how their collaboration skills have assisted your group in this class. Refine

  15. Exit Slips • 3 Things I learned about collaboration and teaching today • 2 Things I learned about my own collaboration skills • 1 way this will impact my future teaching Perform

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