Private Vs Collaborative Teaching Practice

Further ideas about de-privatising teacher practice. Great tool for self and whole staff reflection...

The grid below (which is taken from the Educational Leaders website where the video comes from) explores the differences between collaborative and private teacher practice.

In “private” practice teachers…	In collaborative practice teachers…
Are isolated in individual classrooms and work alone	Are in frequent contact with other teachers
Determine their own goals and expectations for student learning	Commit to shared goals and expectations for student learning
Have sole responsibility for the learning and behaviour of the students they teach	Share responsibility for the learning and behaviour of all students in the school
Do not feel at ease having other teachers observe their teaching or sharing their student work with other teachers	Have a shared expectation and structured time to observe and reflect on each others’ teaching
Do not have access to offer or receive feedback from peers	Act as critical friends to improve practice
Plan and devise their programmes on their own	Jointly share with others the challenge of creating programmes that meet the needs of students
May have friendly relationships with others, but do not have conversations that can impact on the teaching of others	Have purposeful conversations such as creating common assessments, discussing and moderation student work, analysing student data
Are not encouraged to share dissenting views about contentious issues	Disagreements are expected and teachers learn to positively address differences of opinion