Improvement In Action Te Ahu Whakamua

Working together to determine what the collaboration and teamwork looks like on a day-to-day basis has been a critical and continued focus of professional learning and team dialogue.

This video illustrates

Domain 5: Professional capability and collective capacity

Evaluation indicator

• Organisational structures, processes and practices enable and sustain collaborative learning and decision making

Key content

• The Modern Learning Environment means teachers are working more closely together ‘at the time of teaching’ than ever before
• Opportunities for ‘incidental learning’ are frequent and the visibility of others practice can accelerate personal professional growth
• Relationships become critical including strategies to address what’s not going well
• Need to develop the capacity in everyone to have the ‘hard to have conversations’
• Learner-focused problem solving
• Modeling collaborative behaviours to learners

Things to think about

• What is it that effective teams do?
• What characterises their interactions?