Collaboration in the Collaboration in the Learning Community Learning Community By Erin Misegadis
Collaboration in the Learning Collaboration in the Learning CommunityCommunity
By Erin Misegadis
Improve Improve student student
achievement achievement and student and student
behaviorbehavior
Why Collaboration is NeededWhy Collaboration is Needed
Increase Increase teacher teacher
satisfaction satisfaction and and
sustainabilitysustainability
Why Collaboration is NeededWhy Collaboration is Needed
Create a comfortable Create a comfortable and safe environment and safe environment
by being open and by being open and honest. honest.
How to Establish CollaborationHow to Establish Collaboration
Voice areas where you would Voice areas where you would like to grow personally to like to grow personally to
establish trustestablish trust
How to Establish CollaborationHow to Establish Collaboration
Be genuine and Be genuine and supportivesupportive
How to Establish CollaborationHow to Establish Collaboration
Create norms of Create norms of collaborationcollaboration
Encourage Encourage online online collaborationcollaboration
Tips for Encouraging CollaborationTips for Encouraging Collaboration
Offer strategies and “work Offer strategies and “work time” to improve upon time” to improve upon
challenging issueschallenging issues
Tips for Encouraging CollaborationTips for Encouraging Collaboration
Kagan Kagan strategies: not strategies: not just for kidsjust for kids
Conversation (A Conversation (A novel novel concept!)concept!)
Tools for CollaborationTools for Collaboration
EmailEmail
Team blogs or Team blogs or wikiswikis
Shared document Shared document and resource and resource storagestorage
Tools for CollaborationTools for Collaboration
• Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Getting Started: Reculturing Schools to Become Professional Learning Become Professional Learning CommunitiesCommunities– Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour, Rebecca Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour, Rebecca
DuFourDuFour
• Leading Professional Learning Leading Professional Learning Communities: Voices from Research Communities: Voices from Research and Practiceand Practice– Shirley M. Hord and William A. SommersShirley M. Hord and William A. Sommers
Book Study OpportunitiesBook Study Opportunities
• ““Teacher Collaboration in Urban Teacher Collaboration in Urban Secondary Schools” by Morton Inger; Secondary Schools” by Morton Inger; ERIC/CUE Digest, Number 93ERIC/CUE Digest, Number 93
• Kagan products: Kagan products: www.kaganonline.com
ResourcesResources