Collaborating With Different Personality Types!

I agree with Courtney when she said, "Teachers must also facilitate student collaboration in the classroom in order to maximize learning opportunities."

Teachers are often so focused on creating lesson plans that are geared to address curriculum expectations. Often teachers feel pressure from the principal to make sure that their learning mandates and expectations are to be followed.In addition, teachers feel pressure from parents to give their children extra care and instruction.

Instead there needs to be a focus for teachers to collaborate with children in the classroom environment. Collaborating can often help children who are struggling academically to succeed. For example in Chapter 8 Mamchur explains, "Perceiving students respond will to alternatives that allow them to appraise their own works" (Page 54). Children can judge and edit their own assignments such as journals or short stories. The purpose of this is to help children take pride and ownership of their own learning. Teachers need to establish a real sense of trust and not be so quick to judge and assess children's academic progress. If children can sense a trusting relationship in the classroom they will be more inclined to learn, discover, and explore as a student. Finally, with collaboration in the classroom children will show a more positive attitude towards school.

The children that you are teaching are more important than the curriculum material you are trying to teach them.

Written by: Sagar