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.
Below is an artifact created from a professional learning community during my student teaching placement in the Fall of 2021. I was working with other U.S History teachers to collaborate on the roll-out of instructional material surrounding the tentative calendar assembled for each unit. The goals for each professional learning community ranged from discussing formative in-class work to finalizing summative exams to align with essential questions all within the curriculum map along with discussing class progress and how the rate of instruction has been progressing.
I believe this artifact connects and aligns with Standard 8, Collaborative Relationships. The bi-weekly meetings allowed us to build upon past discussions within class interactions to continue to foster and maintain our cross-section collaborative relationships. This allowed us to continue to build upon cognitive and linguistic demands during instruction. Furthermore, these professional learning community meetings provided us the opportunity to continue to hone and refine the rollout of instruction. Moving forward in my educational career I feel that I can utilize much of what was discussed and implemented into a future classroom of my own.
Reflecting back on this experience I feel there were multiple opportunities for personal and professional growth focused on truly highlighting the importance of collaborative relationships in an educational setting. Working through the issues that arose in the professional learning community as a team has strengthened my dedication and resolve towards the benefits of educational collaboration with colleagues. Moving forward, I will continue to build upon the most competent collaboration methods and materials through professional learning and development, as well as executing these skills with lessons, colleagues, students, and parents/guardians.
Click here to view U.S. History PLC Record Meeting 8-27-21
Click here to view U.S. History PLC Record Meeting 9-1-21
Click here to view U.S. History PLC Record Meeting 9-29-21