Complexities of Collaboration

By:

Marilyn Friend

Format:

VHS

Length:

54 minutes

Order #:

VCOC-WEB

Price:

$149.95

Released:

2000

Join elementary, middle, and high school teachers in this video, as they demonstrate five dilemmas of collaborative practices.

  1. Meeting Teacher Expectations: Two elementary teachers confront their differing perspectives of student performance and how they dealt with it. (7:31)

  2. Classrooms Partnerships: Three separate teaching partnerships at the middle and high school levels confront surrendering autonomy, making accommodations for students with special needs, merging teaching styles, and managing discipline in their joint classrooms. (13:00)

  3. Managing Disagreements on the Team: A principal both disagrees with and supports team members when making recommendations in team meetings with a parent. (11:00)

  4. Time! Time! Time! Six middle and high school teachers discuss common problems related to teacher time and how collaborators find a way to maximize their teaching and planning time together. (9:11)

  5. Pulled in Too Many Directions: A special needs teacher catalogs the many functions she performs, how she has learned to cope with those demands and how their collaborators have come to work with her. (11:06)
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