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Successful Collaborative Meetings: How do you know?

The room is abuzz - teachers volunteering to take responsibilities (rotate roles during CP meeting) and share ideas Reflection or sharing of what happened in class helps people start talking

Clear goals and outcomes about progress was made. Having an agenda helps track.

Teachers personalise the strategies I have shared with them and give it their own twist with supporting rationale. While reflecting, teachers are able to connect things back to the Central Idea or the Key Concepts. Teachers share classroom anecdotes and are able to connect children's learning to concepts, CI, LP or TD skills. When teachers of the same level have conflicting ideas that challenges their understanding. Unsuccessful Collaborative Planning Meetings: How do you know?

No conversastion, one or two dominate the conversation, informal/personal conversations, engaged on the phone.

When we are not able to connect the proposed plan of action to child initiated activities or investigations.

When the teachers are not able to share their own or the children's reflections/wonderings that would offer rationale or justify the direction of the planning.

Successful Collaborative Team: How do you know?

The team members use each other's strategies and personalise its use in another context; share/offer the use of resources, strategies, ideas, etc; offer constructive criticism as well as accept the same from others, are open to visit other classes on their own initiative to learn from each other.