Collaboration requires attention and participation from all parties involved, who should each contribute different knowledge, interests, and perspectives to benefit the group. Effective collaboration among educators includes planning cross-curricular lessons together and using technology specialists' strategies. Teachers can collaborate with students by involving them in establishing expectations for respectful discussions and higher-order thinking. When technology problems arise, working with students prevents wasted instruction time and teaches troubleshooting routines. Cultural responsiveness in collaboration requires understanding different cultural communication styles and capitalizing on students' experiences to promote achievement.

1. Collaboration
Katlyn Smith
EIM 504
6/11/2021

2. What is Collaboration ?
Ture Collaboration requires attention and action from all
parties involved. All parties should benefit from the
knowledge and help they are getting from the others in the
group, and all parties should have different interests and
or specialties so that they can bring different ideas and
different points of view to the group.

3. Ways to collaborate together as Educators
With Other Educators
A great place to start collaboration is with other teachers
in your PLC (professional learning communities).
● Have focused and purposeful meeting to discuss ideas and
lessons.
● Plan cross-curricular lessons with other grade level
teachers to cover similar standards together.
● Technology Teachers/specialist can provide different
technological strategies for these cross curricular
lessons.

4. Ways for Teacher to Collaborate with Students
-Quality Questioning
One way to create a quality environment for students is to
collaborate with them on what the expectations for that
environment are, and this will lead to better questions and
answer from students.In Jackie Walshes new book she explains that
with quality questioning we can get more students involved in
higher DoK questions.
According to Jackie Walsh, “Share with Students that in most
classes only 25-30 percent of students almost never speak in
class to answer questions, while another 15 present tent to
answer almost all the questions. How do they believe these
patterns would likely affect effect the learning and
understanding of these two groups of students?”

5. Quality Questioning Collaboration Continued
Walsh Continues
“Next Ask students to problem solve
-How we can collectively ensure that all students have the
opportunity to speak?
-What can we do to enter reluctant speakers into the
conversation?
What can each of us do to be more confident in our ability
to make meaningful contributions to class. “

6. Ways for Tech Teachers to Collaborate with Students
Troubleshooting with Students
While you have tech in schools you will always have tech
problems. Working with students will help not waste valuable
instruction time.
Teach the Problem Solving Routine
● Isolate the Problem - help students understand what the
problem is and where it is coming from.
● Identify the Best Solution- Discuss possible solutions
and which would work best
● Apply a Solution and Check Your Results - also, see if
anything needs to be tweaked in your solution.
● Repeat, if Necessary.

7. Technology as a Learning Tool
With COVID in the year 2020 many teachers learned on their
feet about how technology could help them collaborate with
their fellow educators and their students. Collaborative
tech tools can expand learning experiences for students and
teachers. Some common collaborative tech tools are…
● FaceTime/Skype/Google Meet- this can be done with subject
experts, teachers, and other classes.
● Publicly Shared Documents - Things like Google Docs and
Google Slides can be shared among multiple editors so
students can work together and show critical thinking
skills.
● Emails/Chats - This allows students to communicate and
helps organize and collect information for them.

8. Culturally Responsive Communications
As a part of collaboration we need to also collaborate with our
friends and colleges across the nation and the globe. To do this
with respect and to it’s more effectiveness we need to have a
greater cultural understanding.
We must become culturally responsive teachers/educators “Who
Understand and captializes on the unique cultural attributes,
prio experiences, and performance styles of students to
legitimatize what students already know and promost student
achievement” (As Quoted in Teachonolgy Integration for
meaninguful Classroom Use Cennamo, Ross, Ertmer 2019; Gay 2010;
Kozleski, 2013; Willegas & Lucas 2007)

9. Culturally Responsive Communications
You must understand your culture and the culture of others.
This requires self examination to identify which cultural
groups you belong to.
For Example:
Race
Socal Langage
Gender Biased
And many more

10. Communications
There are different types of communication that come out of
classroom and while most classrooms may use the didactic (a
single speaker dominating the conversation i.e. the teacher)
our goal for a Culturally Responsive line of Communication
is taking a Communal Style of conversations where listening
and providing prompts, feedback and commentary
responsibilities are shared.

11. Cultural Diversity in the Classroom
As America is the melting pot of the world the classrooms of
American become micro melting pots as well. To be true
collaborators we need to be aware of the cultures we may
experiences in these classrooms as well as the way these
cultures may see things like communication, technology, and
learning needs/

12. Work Cited
Cennamo, K., Ross, J. D., & Ertmer, P. A. (2019). Chapter 10 Teachers as Collaborators. In Technology integration for meaningful
classroom use: a standards-based approach. essay, Cengage.
Walsh, J. A., & Sattes, B. D. (2017). Quality questioning: research-based practice to engage every learner. SAGE Publications.