Standard 8 - Collaborative Relationships

Standard 8 - Collaborative Relationships – The competent teacher builds and maintains collaborative relationships to foster cognitive, linguistic, physical, and social and emotional development. This teacher works as a team member with professional colleagues, students, parents or guardians, and community members.

The artifact below shows my plan of communication. This plan is a comprehensive plan that outlines the programs I plan to use in order to "build and maintain collaborative relationships to foster..." development. This also highlights the justification of specific communicating techniques for example email versus in person and verbal versus non verbal. This communication plan shows evidence of my personal perspective on collaboration which includes working as "a team member with professional colleagues, students, parents or guardians, and community members." On a side note, I think this project shows my creativity as well showing future team members they "have a friend in me!" *Bad pun alert!

Student Teaching Collaboration Plan

The above link I created during student teaching. My college Trinity Christian College creates a really rigorous and in-depth program and multiple supports including an outline, professional standards and goals. Student teaching though also requires a lot of independent planning and collaboration between yourself and your cooperating teacher. I had two placements during student teaching. The first placement my cooperating teacher and I loosely planned my sections of lead teaching. I believe it worked out nicely, but for my second placement I wanted to be even more intentional and on target since it was a shorter placement. I created the above google doc and shared it with my cooperating teacher. Together we edited this document to keep our lines of communication clear as well as outlining our timeline and responsibilities. This shows evidence of my ability to work as a "team member with professional colleagues." I was always taught that if you "fail to plan; you plan to fail" and I have kept this idea with me during student teaching.