Как важно сотрудничество в Stem

• What is Collaboration?

  It is when a group of people work together on an idea. In education, it is when a groups of teachers get together to plan lessons, create tests, discuss behavior objectives, or learning goals. Collaboration is an extremely useful tool because there is more than one person's wealth of knowledge on the subject matter; you have several people contributing to common goal.

  How is it important to STEM?

  This becomes vital for the special education teacher who might not have majored in science in college. By collaborating with the science teacher, the special education teacher knows what to study before coming to class the next time. The same is true for math. Not everyone is a math expert! The special education teacher might have to study formulas he or she has not seen in many years. By collaborating with the classroom teacher, the special education teacher might be able to research some different behavioral strategies to try on "difficult" students so they do not get sent out of class, or plan the group roles so students with special needs has the role that sits their disability. By collaborating, both teachers can create modified assignments, modified assessments, and specialized technological adaptation that their students might need. While the special education teacher is helping plan the lesson, both teachers can discuss that teacher's role in the classroom during the lesson. How will he or she be interacting with the students? In addition to the planning for the students, the teachers are able to discuss content knowledge, share resources, and materials. During this time, teachers are also able to briefly discuss the progress of the students with special needs. Do they need additional services? Can services be pulled back? Do new strategies need to be implemented?

  How do I make this happen in my own teaching?  I have taught inclusion students all of the 6 year that I have been teaching.  I have practiced collaboration with the special education teacher the whole time.  In the future, I plan to make sure that I set aside extra planning time to make sure that she understands the math concepts because, as of the 2012/2013 school year we have a new special education teacher.  She admits she "does  not know 6th grade math," so this year should be interesting.  We will make it work, like every year and succeed as well as we can.

  
  

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