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This document summarizes options for teacher collaboration. It discusses how teachers can collaborate through local networks, clusters, federations, teachmeets and online. Specific collaboration ideas mentioned include sharing schemes of work, presentations, questionnaires, and collaborative work with students. Online options discussed include using Twitter to find collaborators and participating in geography forums. The benefits of collaboration discussed are developing support networks and sharing best practices.

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“In the economy of ideas that the web is creating, you are what you share, who you are linked to, who you network with...” Charles Leadbeater - ‘We Think’
Two (hundred) heads are better than one... Tony Cassidy John Sayers Alan Parkinson
The Geographical Teacher Douglas Freshfield Volume 1 Issue 1 Page 1 (1901) ‘In Britain, teachers are for the most part too scattered and too busy to come together frequently for discussion. They require a medium through which they may readily communicate with one another, exchange experiences and learn the progress that is being made in method or in appliances in our own country and abroad’
Collaboration... To work jointly with others or together, especially in an intellectual endeavour To cooperate with an agency with which one is not immediately connected Synonyms: band together, cooperate, concur, conjoin, conspire, team up, unite...
Who with ? Teacher & teacher (same school / different school) Teacher & pupils (same school / different school) Pupil & pupil (same school / different school)
Teacher Talk - Dylan Wiliam AfL - corrupted and systematised Teacher Learning Communities (Community of Practice) Monthly short sessions with 8-10 teachers to start to change habits Group goals and individual accountability
Debates in Geog Ed. (2013) (2013) (2013)
Co-creation
Alec Couros Connected Teacher Connected Teacher When I started teaching...
Alec Couros
Where to go to find collaborators ? 1999: SLN Geography Forum - Durbin & Russell 2007: NINGS for student / teacher support 2006: 1st ‘Teachmeet’ @ the Jolly Judge pub 2008: TWITTER (I joined on the 27th April that year) 1893: Geographical Association... Annual Conference
Local networks Clusters Federations Teachmeet Plus & minus... Plus & minus... Plus & minus... Plus & minus... Plus & minus...
Too many rooms ? Choose one you’re comfortable in
Quality Control...
Ideas given away ? “Why would I want to give away my best ideas ?” GeographyPages - had a colleague who said an assessment I’d created had been written by her former Head of Department... a problem ? ‘There is no delight in owning anything unshared’ - Seneca
League Tables Data Dashboard ‘Competitors’ ? ‘Competitors’ ? ‘Competitors’ ?
Friendships
Wider collegiality Support Support
You can’t choose your colleagues, but you can choose who you collaborate with...
2 sessions John Sayers - SOLO Taxonomy Tony Cassidy - stuff...
A normal Sunday night…. Why did I leave writing this scheme of work until the last minute? I’m not sure what case study to use… Why did I leave writing this scheme of work until the last minute? How do I get my students to understand this concept? Why I did leave writing this scheme of work until the last minute?
What if… I’m not sure what approach to Have you tried why did Mr use… and Mrs Endo die?
Someone will have already done it… But say thanks….
Someone will have already done it… They opened a restaurant in South Wales… They escaped and unfortunately moved to Montserrat... They joined Mauro the shoe shiner… They relocated to the Caatinga only to be forced to leave…
In-house • Practice Baps • CITAL meets • Teaching and Learning Newsletter • Special Interest Groups • Professional Development Library • Good practice archive
From my Twitter network….
A critical friend Work with @Liz_Smith – Twitter interviews and Year 8 comparing their local area.
Your tribe Geography flash meets- not one in a two years, time to resurrect ? http://bit.ly/13ROifC
• Schemes of learning and collaborative writing • Presentations • Questionnaires and data collection • Collaborative work with students • Sourcing ideas https://drive.google.com/ Collaborating further…
http://bit.ly/Z21WF2
http://bit.ly/Z21E14
http://bit.ly/Z229YW
Learning for a pound How could you use these items from the Tesco range to supplement or aid learning? Answers on note with your name (if you want). http://goo.gl/xyoih
http://bit.ly/13RN7wE
Options for further collaboration... Sign-up for Twitter & subscribe to a list Seek out a Teachmeet near you GA Branch meeting / writing for a journal Start blogging....
An example...
And some feedback...
“Educational research can never lead practice —great teaching is produced by teacher  creativity—but what the research can do is to  identify some avenues as more fruitful than  others, and also make sense of the practice of  effective teachers, in particular by identifying  which aspects of practice are likely to be  essential to success, and which are  idiosyncrasies of individual teachers.” Prof. Dylan Wiliam Prof. Dylan Wiliam
Stalk us here... Alan: http://livinggeography.blogspot.com @GeoBlogs Tony: http://sharegeography.co.uk/ @tonycassidy John: http://sayersjohn.blogspot.com/ @JOHNSAYERS
References Books detailed in presentation http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/anatomy-o http://pragmaticreform.wordpress.com/2013/03/3 0/afl/ Image: Alec Couros - shared under CC license