Collaboration

=** Essential Question: How do professional collaborations (work with colleagues) help support children's learning? **=
 * Collaborating with colleagues can be beneficial for children in several different ways. If a colleague has a lesson that was successful in his/her classroom, you may decide to try it out in your own classroom to see if it works with your students, too. Colleagues can bring knowledge of other areas that you can bring into your own classroom in order to support your students' learning. It is important for teachers in a school to work together, as everyone has the same goal- to make a difference in the lives of children and create in them a love for learning. Teachers can work together by sharing strategies and lesson plans, or conducting workshops to present to their fellow colleagues. Teachers in the same grade level usually collaborate quite often to ensure that their students are all on the same page. Ms. Reilly, for example, meets with the other two first grade teachers at Constable a few times a week to plan lessons and share idea. Below is a powerpoint I presented with two other colleagues in front of our class about a strategy we read about in a book, __Strategies that Work__. **


 * [|PDG powerpoint.pptx] **