How do we return to school. Life after Covid 19 Level 2 plans

Reading collaborative Teaching Advantages/Disadvantages

Background reading to how we can sort our Space

Focus on the advantages How can we get to this in Aroha?

More flexible and creative use of instructional time that advantaged students;
• Knowing more about all the students and seeing different student strengths given the opportunity to
view them in varied learning contexts;
• Greater shared ownership of students and student learning;
• Increased reflection on individual and collective teaching practices;
• More learning from and with colleagues about students and about teaching and learning;
• Increased collective expertise resulting in greater effectiveness with a variety of students;
• Decreased teacher isolation, increased support and feeling valued by colleagues;
• Itinerant teachers experiencing varied collaborative designs and strategies then being able to share
those experiences and ideas across classrooms; and
• Having more energy and greater enjoyment from teaching.” (p. 317)

Disadvantages pointed out from the reading

“• Loss of instructional and decision-making autonomy;

• Decreased flexibility and creativity given a set schedule for when additional instructional personnel

would be present in classrooms;

• Increased communication demands given instructional interdependence

among teachers;

• Role shifts and confusion about how to share instructional time (e.g., who leads, who follows, how to

co-teach) and how to share responsibilities (e.g., assessment, reporting);

• Feelings of insecurity because teaching became public and teachers were expected to work with

more diverse students than they had in the past; and

• Differing “philosophies,” which was the term often used to describe differences between teachers

related to orientations or beliefs about instruction and professional practice.” (p. 318)

Collaboration, Cooperation, Coordination:

Examples of this:

example of the same group of teachers taking a task, breaking it up into parts, and

then, individually, going off to complete the different sections of it. Later they return, between them

putting the pieces together, and using this approach, complete the task. Is this collaboration?

Thirdly, the example of something needing doing, an event needing organising, and one person

taking it on, coming back to explain to the group what is going to happen. Would this be

collaboration?

teaching team sense, there’s not such a neat and tidy movement through the stages. Instead depending on the task, the purpose,
and the level of input required from everyone, maybe teams shift between collaboration, cooperation
and coordination.

Team Meeting Questions to discuss