HYPOTHESES and Possible Next Steps:

Our Teaching as Inquiry Hypotheses

• If we want a positive impact on learning in our hub then what does effective collaborative teaching look like?

• What does effective collaboration look like?

• If  we all view collaboration and interpret it differently then  how do we use it in school?

• If we are to be a synergetic team then how do we all get on the same page about collaboration?

• If we collaborate effectively with the child's whanau what benefits does this have on their learning?

• If we are to find best practice of collaboration then where is the best place to find it?

• What forms of collaboration are most important?

Next steps:

We are at the start of our COL collaboration journey at Sommerville. There needs to be a lot of opportunity for observation between staff and opportunity for feedback to feed-forward learning and teaching practice. With this data we have been able to get a better insight into how the staff at Sommerville work with and feel about collaboration. As there are many different pathways (sensory, satellite, base, senior, junior, positive engagement) in the school, all with different needs we want to gain a clearer picture on how collaboration would work and look in different parts of the school. Our next step is to spend time discussing this with teachers from a range of pathways. 

We don't necessarily have the answers: just pose questions and give food for thought, experiment and share back our learning.