Collaboration research-FYI

[Mary Ludwick <ludwickm@LISD.NET>]

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THE TROUBLE WITH TEACHER COLLABORATION

The institutionalization of collaborative working environments is
widely considered to be critical to the creation and maintenance of
schools as professional learning communities. Prevailing thought
suggests that improved student performance may be fully realized only
when teachers routinely function as teams and abandon traditional
isolationism and individualism. A study involving teachers in 45 North
Louisiana schools suggests that while some schools and school districts
are characterized by elements of the "learning community"
others remain largely mired in customary practices that are
counterproductive to realizing the newer collaborative standards.
Participating teachers report that major impediments to joint
professional work remain and they make suggestions for better meeting
the continuing collaborative challenge.

Read the study, "The Continuing Trouble with Collaboration:
Teachers Talk," in volume 6 number 15 of Current Issues in Eduation at
http://cie.asu.edu/volume6/number15

Mary Croix Ludwick, Librarian        K-5
Owen Elementary, Lewisville ISD (near Dallas, Texas)
ludwickm@lisd.net (school)   ludwick@swbell.net  (home)
       "Those who don't read have no advantage over
those who can't."  Mark Twain

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