What are good ideas for monitoring the effectiveness of our collaboration to improve student outcomes?
Taking time to inquire about your effectiveness in collaborating to improve student outcomes can benefit students as well as your work with others. Teams can create informal strategies for checking-in with each other to ensure appropriate ways of working together are in place. More formal tools and processes can also be used to determine the team's effectiveness.
Factual Information
Areas of collaboration such as planning, communicating, evaluating, problem-solving, and instructing can be evaluated. Checklists and rubrics can be created through reviewing the resources below and brainstorming the areas you think are critical to your effective collaboration with others.
Classroom Activities
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Collaboration
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Resources and Links
- Power of Two has a form and rubric for the evaluation of your co-teaching.
- Boston College Libraries has an online article called: Evaluation of Co-Teaching in Three High Schools within One School District: How Do You Know When You Are TRULY Co-Teaching?
- The Council for Exceptional Children has an article on the effectiveness of co-teaching with a section on factors that influence the effectiveness of co-teaching. These factors can be used to evaluate your own effectiveness.
- The Building Blocks Initiative's information on strategies for co-teaching can be used to create a tool for evaluating your work together.
- Current Issues in Education, Volume 6, 2003 has an article titled: The Continuing Trouble with Collaboration: Teacher Talk . This can provide some insight into the challenges in collaboration and ways to look at evaluating collaborative practices.
- The Special Connections website at the University of Kansas has a section on Teacher Tools: Collaboration with resources on cooperative teaching that can be used for determining your effectiveness.