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.
This is an institute/professional development day, where we met with different teams within our school and others schools in district. This happened during student teaching and we worked together to revise and edit the curriculum (small sample attached) for the upcoming schoolyear. I will not be there, but was involved as I have been involved in instruction and planning during my placement.
Attending this meeting although it was not expected of me by the district shows that I met the standard by "understanding the collaborative process and the skills necessary to initiate and carry out that process ", the importance of such a day and the work that goes into developing effective instruction (8B).
I learned a good amount about how to work effectively with others. I also able to see how a district collaborates on an entire curriculum. This is especially relevant to me, as most P.E. teachers are tasked with developing their own curriculum and pacing.
This is a lesson plan I developed collaboratively with another student during our pre student teaching hours in our Middle Grades Literacy class.
This shows that I know how to "use effective co-planning and co-teaching techniques to deliver instruction to each student", which we used to plan and teach this lesson to our peers (8N). We were able to plan together bringing our own views and strategies to the table and settling on a collaborative plan.
I learned how to take input from others and develop lessons together. This is a skill I have further reinforced during student teaching and one I will continue to incorporate with teachers of various content areas going forward.