I get very excited when I’m collaborating with teaching colleagues. I get to have rich discussions about research and learning and always gain as much from the experience as I contribute. This also has the added benefit of helping me to get better at what I have to contribute to the process. This is an example of my most recent collaboration
After an enthusiastic and productive two days of learning and sharing at our annual Hui, I returned to school and a mountain of work.
However, through the busyness, I was reminded how rewarding and exhilarating collaborating with a teaching colleague is. My level 2 chemistry teacher booked space for her Year 12 class to use the library computers in the last three weeks of this term. We then met to discuss the research requirements of the upcoming assessment.
Now, I am no scientist, and chemistry definitely doesn’t feature on my personal knowledge radar, but together we had a highly productive discussion that resulted in a planned collaboration that neither of us had expected.
After identifying areas for grade improvement based on the previous two years’ results for this assessment, my teaching colleague articulated wanting to try a strategy that would move some of this year’s cohort from a merit to an…
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