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Several trends in society and education have caused a paradigm shift in the way Educational Entities operate:

  • decentralization of schools
  • teacher professionalism
  • schools as communities
  • schools as organic entities

Dynamics of Collaboration

Overview of the term Collaboration

Why Collaborate?

Key Factors:

Implications for Practice:

  • Teachers
  • Principals
  • District Administration
  • Parents

Key critisim is the lack of conceptual clarity.

  • collegiality
  • congeniality
  • cooperation

Teachers:

  • Opening classrooms doors to collaborative work may lead teachers to increased satisfaction and professional growth especially as it relates to the enhancement of student learning.

Principals:

  • May strive to inspire a culture of teacher leadership and improvement by acting as "hero-makers" rather than heros.

  • In recruiting teachers, should have some strategies for identifying candidates who either have worked collaboratively in the past or appear to have the disposition and skills to work in collaborative ways.

District Administration:

  • Must understand that collaboration cannot be mandated or focused or forced on schools.

  • District administrators may support the process in schools through modeling, communication, valuing others and advocacy.

Although used interchangeably these words have very different meanings within an educational context.

Collaborative Diversity

- looking at different possibilities

- building on each others experiences

Conflict

- can result in better decisions

- contains the seeds to breakthrough in the change process

Trust, Respect, and Openness

- more willing to take risks

- new insights, learning, and change

Choice

- voluntary basis not forced

Common Goal

- what are we all working towards

Need

- internally driven

Relationships

- must be built on trust

- building blocks of collaboration

Collaboration: A Framework for School Improvement

Trends and Forces that drove Collaboration

Components Needed for Successful Collaboration:

Within all the terms used for Collaboration, certain key components need to be present:

From Isolation to Collaboration

Final Thought:

Collaboration involves people in deep and meaningful relationships based on trust and respect. It opens up leadership opportunities to more people thereby building capacity and support for change.

  • Content
  • Process
  • Skills
  • Leadership

Conclusion:

  • The article described trends that are influencing current initiatives in school reform.

  • The model presented provides a framework for thinking about the school improvement process that is anchored in collaboration.

  • Collegiality, leadership behaviour, cultural diversity and trust relate to each other and to improvement in teaching and learning.

  • common goals, joint work, and interdependence
  • parity
  • collaboration is voluntary

Parents:

  • Need to embrace a view that attends to all children's good, not just the good of their own children.

  • Need a vision of the greater good that guides parent input into choices and discussions made in the school.

  • May view their participation in the education of their children as equal to but different from that of the educators in the school
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