Our next steps as the collaborative team.

So good to catchup face to face. It feels a bit strange but definitely good!

Upon reflection,  making sure that all areas of the school were represented, we realised that the specialists did not have representation. 

I know of a great specialist colleague who has great ideas and loves to collaborative with the class teacher in order to best support the children's growing. Watch this space...

We have a goal. We are very focused on deepening the staff's understanding and ability to collaborate for the benefit of all learners in school. 

Our goal: when children move to different classes through the school, the aim is for all teachers they meet to speak the same language around collaboration and provide the children with a rich environment to learn through collaboration if possible.

Wonderings: if collaboration became an integral part of Pathway discussions, not just a one off discussion, then it will be forefront in everyones minds and therefore may be used more with in school.

How can we get a better understanding of collaboration:

• Examples of collaboration need to be shared and discussed: This can be started with the collaborative team sharing photos of videos of collaboration taking place in their classes. This can be the starting point of discussion in the Pathways.
• A bank of these videos and photos can be a resource for everyone so that they have examples of how to incorporate collaboration. It is a growing bank and can be added to.
• Devs has discussed with us her idea of giving staff time to visit ad observe collaboration taking place. The aim is for staff to visit a certain person during CRT time. The can choose who and what to observe. The aim is for this to be put into place by the end of the year.
• During the next staff meeting the COL teachers are going to be sharing their journeys so far.For me this will informing everyone of where we are at as The collaborative team. It is also a time for me to also share examples of collaboration and cooperation, opening up a discussion where the difference could be identified.