Teacher as Collaborator

1. TEACHER AS
COLLABORATOR
SHONDA ELLIS
EIM 504

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES
• Recognize the value of engaging collaborative planning with your colleagues.
• Co-learn with your students to explore hard work and software systems, including
troubleshooting routine problems as they arise.
• Use technology to facilitate collaboration among experts, peers, and students.
• Identify strategies you can incorporate in a culturally responsive classroom to
promote cultural understanding and global awareness.

3. INVITATIONAL
ENVIRONMENT
• Teacher modeling
• Questioning
• Quality responding
• Peer interaction and discussion
• Reflective journals

4. PLANNING TOGETHER
• Professional Learning communities are
dedicated time the school aligns as a
grade level or department meeting for
teacher collaboration.
• Professional Learning Communities are
• Highly driven by student data
• Ongoing student work samples
• Analyze data to determine
Professional Developments needed
• Purposeful and focused

5. SOLVING ROUTINE PROBLEMS
1
Isolate the
problem
2
Identify the Best
Solution
3
Apply Solution and
Check Your Results
Repeat, If
Neccessay

6. CULTURALLY RESPONSIVE TEACHER
• Socially conscious
• View students diverse background as an asset
• Feel personally responsible for helping schools be more responsive
• Understand how learners construct knowledge
• Know about the lives of their students
• Design instruction that builds on the students prior knowledge and experiences.

7. CULTURE CAN BE SO MANY THINGS
• Concepts of fairness
• Greetings
• Dancing
• Music
• Styles of Dress
• Importance of time
• Literature
• Values
• Work ethic
• Religious beliefs
• Concepts of beauty
• The role of the family
• Facial expressions
• General worldview
• Celebrations
• Attitude toward personal space

8. CULTURAL COMMUNICATION DIFFERENCES
• Conventions for storytelling
• Directness in communicating
• When to listen and when to speak
• When and how children should speak
• Speaking to an adult or elder

9. CULTURES
• Individualist – promotes the autonomy of the individual and measures success by
individual accomplishments
• Collectivist- situate the individual within a larger community and measure the
success of the individual as a factor of the whole.

10. CELEBRATE DIVERSITY
• Acknowledge student’ differences as well as their commonalities
• Validate student’ cultural identities in classroom practices and instruction
materials
• Promote equality and mutual respect among students
• Motivate students to become more active participants in their learning
• Challenge students to strive for excellence
• Assist students in becoming socially and politically conscious