Catch up and next steps
Reminder of my goal:
Goal- Grow great staff who collaborate to enrich learner outcomes
If we have collaborative staff then this will enhance the children's learning, academic and social.
How is the journey going?
Both are important, but with such a large amount of staff, collaboration takes on different forms and help everyone do their job and acts as a role model for the students with their social skills.
The collaborative team meet twice a term to discuss feedback and next steps.
Term 3 has seen teachers visiting and observing other classes. It was encouraged for teachers to go and visit classes in different areas of school, e.g a Base teacher goes to visit a satellite teacher. This initiative was met with mixed views. This is easily understood considering different issues that everyone has had to deal with this year. But members of the collaborative team are in different pathways and so were able to explain the reasoning behind this.
What are the reasons, as we asked teachers to use up some of their CRT time to go and observe others.
1. There is so much awesome teaching and learning going on around the school this would be a great way to start sharing it.
It doesn't matter what area of the school you are in, learning new things can be done just be seeing something new, a quick chat or discussion or even watching learners doing what you are teaching your learners to do
2. In order to grow a better understanding of collaboration people need to go and see it in action.
Actually watching collaboration live give people a huge insight into the benefit for the teachers, learner and team
3. Collaborating between different areas of the school opens up everyones eyes that some things are done the same and some are done differently but we all looking at learning new things for our kete of teaching.
4. Collaborating between each other to organise these observations is a small step on the collaboration journey for the school. Be courageous, get out of your comfort zone
How has this gone?
Feedback around the visits was scheduled to happen in week 9 of last term, however due to unforeseen circumstances this did not happen.
The collaborative team are looking at asking teachers to organise another observation with another teacher in term 4 and then hopefully feedback will be obtained through face to face discussions or online.
Our school is unique in the fact that our classes span such a wide range of academic and behavioural abilities and also is spread over different sites, that in order for us to appreciate collaboration we need to experience at least some time in areas other than where we teach. After all we are all here to support our learners in the best possible way.
