COLLABORATION

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COLLABORATION

• a collection of superstar teachers working in
  isolation cannot produce the same results as
  interdependent colleagues who share and develop
  professional practices together.

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learning and change is intensely
interpersonal.(People getting smart together)

• Collaboration
• Sharing expertise and perspectives on teaching
  and learning
• Examining data about students
• Shared responsibility and mutual support for
  effective instruction

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Four Group-Member Capabilities

• To know ones intentions and choose congruent
  behaviors.
• To set aside unproductive patterns of listening,
  responding, and inquiring.
• To know when to self-assert and when to
  integrate.
• To know and support the groups purposes, topics,
  processes, and development.

There is no such thing as group behavior. All
group behavior results from the decisions and
actions of individuals.
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Unproductive patterns of listening, responding,
and inquiring

• Me Too Anecdotes and story telling
• Tell me moreHow much detail do we need on this
  item?
• I know what to doPressure toward action and away
  from reflection

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it is dangerous and often counterproductive
to put adults in a room without frameworks and
tools for skilled interaction.The Adaptive
School Garmston Wellman

• Teachers need instruction in building a
  professional community to replace the isolation
  that has been the norm for most teachers.
• Ann Healy-Raymond, Professional Development
  Specialist

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The most important learning occurs through
relationships in community

• Seven Norms of Collaboration
• Tools for productive communication between group
  members.

Norm Normal operating behaviors in formal and
informal interactions within the school.
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Seven Norms of Collaboration

• 1. Pausing (wait time)
• after a question is asked
• after someone speaks
• after being asked a question- personal reflection
  time a person waits before answering
• collective pause

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Seven Norms of Collaboration

• 2. Paraphrasing (a restatement of a text,
  passage, or work giving the meaning in another
  form)
• Group becomes clearer and more cohesive about
  their work.
• Reflects content back to the speaker for further
  consideration.
• Connects the response to the flow of discourse
  emerging within the group.

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Seven Norms of Collaboration

• 3. Probing for Specificity
• Conversations go haywire when the various parties
  make different assumptions about the meaning of
  words and concepts and neglect to verify or
  correct those assumptions.

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Seven Norms of Collaboration

• 4. Putting Ideas on the Table
• Ideas are the heart of group work. To be
  effective they must be released to the group.
• Reconsidering ideas sometimes ideas need to be
  pulled off the table.

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Seven Norms of Collaboration

• 5. Paying Attention to Self and Others
• Skilled group members are aware of
• What they are saying
• How they are saying it
• How others are receiving responding to their
  ideas.
• The total communication package includes
• posture, gesture, proximity, muscle tension,
  facial expression, and voice pitch, pace, volume,
  and inflection

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Seven Norms of Collaboration

• 6. Presuming Positive Intentions
• Encourages honest conversations about important
  matters.
• Reduces the possibility of the listener
  perceiving threats or challenges in a paraphrase
  or question.

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Seven Norms of Collaboration

• 7. Pursue a balance between advocacy and inquiry.
• Spend equal amounts of time and energy advocating
  for ones own ideas and inquiring into the ideas
  of others.
• Advocacy Make your thinking and reasoning
  visible.
• Inquiry Ask others to make their thinking visible

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Any group that is too busy to reflect on its
work is too busy to improve.

• Two Important Things
• That we talk professionals who are charged with
  preparing students to be successful collaborative
  citizens are themselves cut off from the rich
  resources offered by true collegiality.
• How we talk it influences the personal and
  collective satisfaction that motivates us to
  effectively talk together in our schools.

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Four Group-Member CapabilitiesandSeven Norms
of Collaboration

• These essential capacities and skills help
  groups develop shared meaning and gracefully
  reach decisions.