collaboration takes place when members of an inclusive learning community work together as equals to assist students to succeed in the classroom. This may be in the form of lesson planning with the special needs child in mind, or co-teaching a group or class

1. HORIZONTAL COLLABORATION MEETING
presented by: RIFAT HUMAYUN
email: rifathumayun@gmail.com

2. HORIZONTAL COLLABORATION

3. MEANING OF COLLABORATION
• collaboration takes place when members of an
inclusive learning community work together as equals to
assist students to succeed in the classroom. This may be
in the form of lesson planning with the special needs
child in mind, or co-teaching a group or class.

4. PURPOSE OF COLLABRATION
• Collaborative teaching aims to maximize
learning by reducing learner/teacher ratio to
more effectively meet learner needs.
• It also effectively uses expertise existing in the
college community.

5. What do the teaching team members
do?
• The teaching team members identify, respect and value
each team member’s knowledge and experience.
• To make a joint commitment to plan together.
• To make arrangements to incorporate team-planning
time during school hours - this is ideally a whole college
commitment.
• To define roles and responsibilities of each team
member.
• To explain to learners how the collaboration works.
• To discuss issues carefully to ensure full understanding.
• share differing values and cultural understandings.

6. • be prepared to learn, shift position and deal with problems
constructively.
• focus on learners’ learning.
• Shared Leadership, Knowledge Exchange And capacity
building

7. ADVANTAGES OF HORIZONTAL
COLLABORATION
• The lack of integration between basic science disciplines
causes difficulties for students who need to understand
how the parts function together as an integrated whole
and apply this understanding to solving clinical
problems.
• May increase in students’ confidence, positive attitude,
ability to learn, and perception of neuroscience content
and knowledge.
• may enhance students’ neuroscience knowledge and
their ability to interpret clinical data.

8. BENEFITS OF HORIZONTAL COLLABORATION
• Better understanding of faculties.
• Agreement to teach common system at a time.
• Taking class test in morning lectures to avoid absence
from the class.
• To frame teaching planner month wise.
• To cover the curriculum of the specialties with mutual
discussion among the faculties.
• Appointment of focal persons from the departments to
collaborate with DME department to analyze the
coverage of curriculum according to teaching planner.

9. DIFFICULTIES IN HORIZONTAL COLLABORATION
• Some topics are isolated topics so they have to
teach individually like most of the topics of Eye,
ENT, Neurosurgery, Forensic Medicine and
Community Medicine etc.

10. FUTURE PROSPECTS OF HORIZONTAL
COLLABORATION
• To analyze and submit results of our horizontal
collaboration pilot project.
• Under the kind guidance of UHS and PMDC
convert to the integrated modular system.
• To get training of the faculties as per vision,
program and strategy of PMDC and UHS.

11. FUTURE PLANNING
• To request UHS to include our faculty in
different academic and extracurricular activities
to be held at UHS.
• To support our newly established institution for
outreach program in our institution.
• Request to VC to support and patronize our
institution for make this institution as the centre
of Excellence.