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What is Collaboration?

Professional Development Project: The Basics of Collaboration Breanna Furline Kimberly Odom Nick Richardson The University of Alabama. What is Collaboration?. A style of interaction between two or more voluntary, equal parties. (Friend & Cook, 2010, p.7).

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What is Collaboration?

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  1. Professional Development Project:The Basics of CollaborationBreannaFurlineKimberly OdomNick RichardsonThe University of Alabama

  2. What is Collaboration? A style of interaction between two or more voluntary, equal parties. (Friend & Cook, 2010, p.7) Parties resolve together towards a mutual goal.

  3. Why Collaboration? • One of the Ten Content Standards for Special Education addressed by the Council for Exceptional Children and National Council on Accreditation of Teacher Education (Ludlow, 2011). • “Districts are now looking at models for ‘pulling-in’ disabled students.” (Nichols, Dowdy & Nichols, 2010). • Achievements of a methodical group are greater than an individual's feats (Inger, 1993).

  4. Characteristics of Collaboration • Voluntary • Equality • Mutual goals • Shared responsibility • Shared decision making • Sharing of resources • Shared accountability • Interpersonal style • Trust • Community

  5. Components of Collaboration Friend and Cook (2010) define the five components of collaboration as: • Personal Commitment: Do you trust in the advantages of using collaboration in your class? • Communication: Are you willing to communicate with diverse cultures? • Interaction: Are you willing to solve problems from beginning to end? • Programs/Services: In what context will you be collaborating? • Context: Are you collaborating with colleagues, parents, administrators, etc.?

  6. Characteristics of Collaboration Glasbergen, 2011

  7. Components of Collaboration In Rick DuFour’s 2003 article ‘Collaboration lite’ puts students’ achievement on a starvation diet, he looks further into how the components of collaboration are utilized to benefit students. He says the following three things must be in place to foster student success. “ • Leaders must promote a collaborative environment. • The collaborative process is designed to impact professional practice. • The effectiveness is assessed on results. “

  8. Components of Collaboration Saint Paul Public Schools, 2011

  9. Who do we collaborate with? Community Fellow Educators Parents Administrators (Friend & Cook, 2010, p. 21)

  10. Collaborating with Parents of English Language Learners The National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems offers tips on how to effectively collaborate with parents of English Language Learners. These parents are typically also learning the language themselves. The organization hopes these tips will break down barriers in order to promote collaboration which will in turn promote further education of minority students. Building Collaboration between Schools and Parents of English Language Learners

  11. Collaborating With the Community • Miami, Florida • Partnership between the nation’s fourth largest public school system (Miami Dade Public Schools) and Miami’s only public research university (Florida International University) • Free ELL tutoring • Project CLAVE • Graduate Student Interns create projects and activities for Neva King Cooper Educational Center for Severe and Profound Disabilities • Academy for Advanced Academics

  12. Collaborating With the Community • Achieving Community Collaboration in Education and Student Success (Florida international university, 2011)

  13. References Collaboration lite, true collaboration. (2011). [Print Photo]. Retrieved from http://ell.spps.org/Components_of_Collaboration.html DuFour, R. (2003). ‘Collaboration lite’ puts student achievement on a starvation diet. Journal of Staff Development, 24, 4, 63-64. Florida international university: Education. (2011). Retrieved from http://education.fiu.edu/worldsahead/ACCESS.html

  14. References Friend, M., & Cook, L. (2010). Interactions: Collaboration for school professionals (6th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Inger, M. (1993). Teacher collaboration in secondary schools. CenterFocus, (2), Retrieved from http://vocserve.berkeley.edu/centerfocus/CF2.html

  15. References Waterman, R., & Harry, B. (2008). Building collaboration between schools and parents of english language learners: Transcending barriers, creating opportunities. Practioner Brief, Retrieved from http://www.nccrest.org/Briefs/PractionerBrief_BuildingCollaboration.pdf

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