Mentoring and coaching are both ways of teacher collaboration, where the relationship is based on trust and mutual understanding. According to Kise (2006) Coaching is identifying and developing person or team’s strengths. It’s a partnership between the coach and the person/s being coached. Coaching uses methods that are usually developed through conversation. Coaching recognizes that…
What is co-teaching? And how to organize it? “Co-teaching is two or more people sharing responsibility for teaching some or all of the students assigned to a classroom. It involves the distribution of responsibility among the people for planning, instruction and evaluation”. Co-teaching “partners must establish trust, develop and work on communication, share the chores,…
Whether we are talking about teacher teams or student teams, our purpose is always to learn. So what are the characteristics of an effective learning team? How do we nurture and sustain our team? How can we reach the results we want? I have talked about building trust and the importance of it many times…
This site started last fall as a Fulbright project and my focus then was teacher collaboration, hence the name! I’m a great believer in collaboration of all sorts. The reason we need teacher collaboration is to give the students quality education and working together as a team ensures just that. At the same time we…