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STANDARD 9 – Collaborative Relationships
The competent teacher understands the role of the community in education and develops and maintains collaborative relationships with colleagues, parents/guardians, and the community to support students’ learning and well-being.
Artifact: Leader Art Portrait Lesson Plan
Reflection:
The artifact for this standard is a social studies lesson plan called “Leader Art Portrait” that I created and taught as a final part of a social studies unit during my student teaching experience in Spring 2013 semester. In this lesson students are creating painted portraits of leaders in the past that made a difference. In order for me to most effectively implement this lesson with my students, I had to collaborate with the school art teacher who played a major role in ensuring these students’ success with this art project.
In this Leader Art Portrait lesson plan I have explicitly listed another professional: the art teacher as a resource that is needed and included steps that require the art teacher’s instruction, which is all evidence of a collaborative relationship being utilized for instruction. While planning and preparing for this lesson I showed understanding of the collaborative process and utilized collaborative skills in this process by meeting with the school art teacher way ahead of time and asking her if she would be willing to assist our class with the social studies art project we were planning to do. I showed further knowledge of the collaborative process by thoroughly explaining the art project to the art teacher, identifying her role in the lesson, giving her plenty of time to prepare, and asking for any suggestions or advice on how to go about teaching the art portion of the lesson. While teaching this lesson I initiated the collaboration between the art teacher and I as well as created a situation where our collaboration greatly enhanced the students’ learning. The art teacher and I co-planned and co-taught this Leader Art Portrait lesson. Furthermore, I participated in collaborative decision-making and problem-solving with the art teacher in many ways, such as choosing which art materials to use, how to blend paint colors, and which steps to include in the art process in order to achieve success for students.
This artifact represents one of the most rewarding and developing moments of my teaching experience so far. I learned a huge amount not only about how to integrate art in other disciplines through creative projects, but also how to effectively collaborate with other professionals in the school in order to achieve success for all students. This was my first experience collaborating with another professional in the building (other than my cooperating teacher) on such a deep level and co-teaching such a detailed lesson plan. I was able to truly practice my collaborative skills of planning, gathering materials, modifying, and executing through teaching this lesson with the art teacher.
The competent teacher understands the role of the community in education and develops and maintains collaborative relationships with colleagues, parents/guardians, and the community to support students’ learning and well-being.
Artifact: Leader Art Portrait Lesson Plan
Reflection:
The artifact for this standard is a social studies lesson plan called “Leader Art Portrait” that I created and taught as a final part of a social studies unit during my student teaching experience in Spring 2013 semester. In this lesson students are creating painted portraits of leaders in the past that made a difference. In order for me to most effectively implement this lesson with my students, I had to collaborate with the school art teacher who played a major role in ensuring these students’ success with this art project.
In this Leader Art Portrait lesson plan I have explicitly listed another professional: the art teacher as a resource that is needed and included steps that require the art teacher’s instruction, which is all evidence of a collaborative relationship being utilized for instruction. While planning and preparing for this lesson I showed understanding of the collaborative process and utilized collaborative skills in this process by meeting with the school art teacher way ahead of time and asking her if she would be willing to assist our class with the social studies art project we were planning to do. I showed further knowledge of the collaborative process by thoroughly explaining the art project to the art teacher, identifying her role in the lesson, giving her plenty of time to prepare, and asking for any suggestions or advice on how to go about teaching the art portion of the lesson. While teaching this lesson I initiated the collaboration between the art teacher and I as well as created a situation where our collaboration greatly enhanced the students’ learning. The art teacher and I co-planned and co-taught this Leader Art Portrait lesson. Furthermore, I participated in collaborative decision-making and problem-solving with the art teacher in many ways, such as choosing which art materials to use, how to blend paint colors, and which steps to include in the art process in order to achieve success for students.
This artifact represents one of the most rewarding and developing moments of my teaching experience so far. I learned a huge amount not only about how to integrate art in other disciplines through creative projects, but also how to effectively collaborate with other professionals in the school in order to achieve success for all students. This was my first experience collaborating with another professional in the building (other than my cooperating teacher) on such a deep level and co-teaching such a detailed lesson plan. I was able to truly practice my collaborative skills of planning, gathering materials, modifying, and executing through teaching this lesson with the art teacher.