Friday, September 28, 2012

Chapter 2



Amber Hobson

It is important for teachers to work together. When teacher’s work together it gives a lot more room for more ideas, you can brainstorm together and work together to create a lot of projects, and lessons. Two brains are always better than one. Also getting to work with technology is a great chance for the teachers as well as the students. Just as in the HP Technology for teaching Grants where they award these grants to teams of five teachers who work together on project design and implementation. Working together in this class is very important as well. By working together we can expect to produce something greater that the sum of your parts. By working together in our teams, and using project-based learning we have a lot more to offer to a class. Doing the lesson together opens up many doors for new ideas. Working together can be a little difficult sometimes, but I think that is very important that when you are working with others to be very respectful to everyone else's ideas and their feedback. Just as Whipple said "You have to be able to be honest with one anther, and that means you have to trust and appreciate the people you're working with" and "You need to be comfortable saying, that worked OK, but maybe try this next time."
            Members should share many research-based components. Having a clear sense of mission is a very important component because working with people it is important to all have a clear understanding of what the goal is. Working together in collaborative teams to determine the best practice to achieve the mission is also a important component because of it is good to know that you have explored what is the best way to go about achieving the mission. Also are goal- and results- oriented because you always want to make sure there is a clear goal to gain the same end results.

1 comment:

  1. I think the concept of a Learning Community is important for education because it brings teachers together, instead of pushing them apart. This strategy allows teachers to collaborate, and just like us, as future teachers, I think it is important to be able to work together to bounce ideas off of one another to make a learning experience the best it could be! LC's promote trust and respect, and those are important in anything successful. Good post!

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