Session+8

=Session 8= =8.1=

media type="custom" key="10099539" =8.2= [|Collaborative Crusader] The teachers who are teaching this course and the students who are participating are proof that the district does support collaboration between teachers. Sometimes at the high school I feel as if everything else steals our time preventing many from collaborating. I know I do more cooporating than collaboration. Individually I collaborate with staff, however this remains case by case basis. I can't speak for other departments or schools.
 * How does your school/district currently support and or encourage collaboration between teachers?

I don't know how much I seek to collaborate as opposed to cooporating with other staff. There are staff members who I believe that have collaborated with me which comes from it being part of my job as well as the willingness of the participants.
 * How much do you seek to collaborate with teachers and how do you accomplish this?


 * To what extent do you think collaboration is of growing importance for teachers seeking to implement a 21st century classroom?

I would say that collaboration is as important for teachers as it is for students. I can't model or teach what I can't or wont do.

Students also are fearful of new things often. In the classrooms I see student who have different levels of readiness to collaborate because of past experiences and learning opportunities. Regardless of the past all the studens will need to be better collaboraters because in should enrich not just their education but their lives as citizens long after they have forgotten about us.
 * In what ways, if any, do you see the thoughts in this article applying to student conversation?

=8.3= //"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew//." **Abraham Lincoln**

media type="custom" key="10099745" Reflections on both can be viewed in post.