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=Session 8: Conversation and Innovation (Google Presentations)=

8.1: Wall Wisher :

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8.2: Teacher Conversation :

[|Collaborative Crusader]

Malden High builds time into the calendar for teachers to collaborate on Monday afternoons when students are released from school early and usually once a month we have a Late Arrival Monday during which teachers may also collaborate with members of their department or content team.
 * How does your school/district currently support and or encourage collaboration between teachers?**

I am an avid believer in the benefit of collaboration with my colleagues. Many of us share student work and good sources we come across through the use of a our department wiki, through email or conversations with teachers during prep time or even over lunch. I also have the benefit of visiting other history teachers' classroom and inviting them in to mine.
 * How much do you seek to collaborate with teachers and how do you accomplish this?**

Collaboration is a key component to being a successful teacher n the 21st century. Talking and sharing information about tech tools or student inquiry approaches that have been tried and how they worked is an important element in our professional development.
 * To what extent do you think collaboration is of growing importance for teachers seeking to implement a 21st century classroom?**

To promote collaboration among our students it is necessary for the teacher to provide guidance on the difference between cooperation and collaboration and to supply adequate time and resources that would lead to a positive income. Collaboration does not come about easily. It does require a certain amount of trust and maturity and of course time.. However, once students see how it can be successful, I believe more would be willing to accept the challenge.
 * In what ways, if any, do you see the thoughts in this article applying to student conversation?**

8.3: Innovation in Education


 * //"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew//."** Abraham Lincoln

[|Ken Robinson]

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