"The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, and other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the procession."
In-Process Gallery Walk and Discussion - Westbrook Middle School
Students participated in regular gallery walks and discussions about peers work. Students were prompted to walk around the room and notice what their peers are doing in their process, resulting in a class share out about what they are appreciating and notiving in each others work.
Kelsey Taylors Classroom - Westbrook Middle School
Learning from multilingual professional Kelsey Taylor to collaborate on best strategies to support multilingual learners in the art room.
Collaborating with local shop owner and producing hand made cards and interior design decorations.
Collaborating with other student candidates to install and show both student work and cohort work.
An excerpt from my MAT 806 deep dive which discusses the importance of collaboration with parents and paraprofessionals. Specifically to gain useful information about a child and their disabilities in order to individualize assessments and lessons.
It was incredibly helpful to be able to communicate with Amy Cousins about her teaching philosophies and routines during my observations at Gorham Middle School.
Collaborative Star Project - MAT Classroom
Collaborating with my peers to craft a visually interesting installation piece that embodies the theme "constellations" - relating to how we understand and see student as individuals with multifaceted characteristics and personalities that come together to make the whole child.