I think collaborating with my peers is extremely important. My school is involved with the TAP program, so we meet to collaborate every Tuesday during one of our planning periods. We collaborate during these weekly meetings. I also collaborate when I attend a mandatory district meeting with fellow 7th grade ELA teachers. We meet for an hour once a month to collaborate. We just finished collaborating ideas and strategies on informational text and research. We will next discuss and share ideas on the new common core standards that's going to be implemented in the next few years. This weekly collaboration time is mandatory, but I would still make time to collaborate regardless. I do find time to collaborate with the other 7th grade reading teacher on my hall. We talk 3rd period every single day. We run ideas by each other and reflect on what we've tried. Collaborating with her, since she teaches the same material, is extremely helpful to me on a daily basis.
I wish I could collaborate with the other reading teachers in my building more. However, we have different planning periods and they're on different halls. This makes finding the time to talk much more difficult. This is something I wish could be worked out. I know I could glean good information from them and vice versa.
Collaboration is a great way to reflect upon yourself and glean great, new ideas from your peers.
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