Collaborative observation at Stonefields school

What did we see?

Today, we were lucky enough to observe a variety of teams collaborating in Stonefields school. Hub 9 who have Year 7/8 learners, Hub 7 who have Year 3/4 learners and Hub Koru who are Year 0/1 learners.

It was a great experience for us, we saw a variety of collaboration being used within all the hubs.

After our PD with Chris Bradbeer, we were able to identify what forms of co teaching the teams use in the hub. This is just a snapshot of how the teams teach collaboratively during a specific learning time.

Hub 9: We saw alternative teaching  happening with a bigger group learning in a workshop and the other teachers roaming  and touching base with independent learners. The teachers then swapped places and one took a workshop whilst the other checked in with the high achieving group.

Hub 7: Alternative teaching was being used,  where a workshop was taking place with a smaller group of children. Another workshop was taking place for those learners who needed a little extra support. Some children were working collaboratively in small groups. They had a checklist created by the teachers to aid their learning. They are at the beginning stages of learning how to collaborate.  These groups were being supported by a roaming teacher.

                Student group work, collaboratively working with a checklist to guide their learning

Hub Koru: Initially the whole hub came together. This was to divide the children up and make sure they went to the correct teacher for their next learning as they are Year 0 and 1.
We then observed parallel teaching but differentiated to suit each groups needs. The groups were ability organised.
One children had about 10mins independent learning with a teacher as this best suits their needs. The rest of the group were working on independent activities.

This was a great opportunity for us to check our learning of the terminology Chris has taught us about co teaching. We could see how the type of collaboration was adapted across the year levels of the school. We could see commonality with how we structure our lessons mainly with Hub Koru, we can now see how using things such as checklists and workshops can be successful in our learning space to strengthen both ours and our students collaborative practice.