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    UNIVERSITY OF CALOOCAN CITY

    Tulip St. Camarin, Caloocan City


    Camarin Business Campus
    GRADUATE SCHOOL

    Discussant: Justine Danielle R. Gabuni


    Subject: MAED308- Educational Leadership
    Program and Section: MAED 200B
    Course Professor: Dr. Renz Catherine G. Domingo
    Week/ Date of Report: Week 9/ May 8, 2021
    Topic/s: Roles of Collaboration, Teachers Helping Teachers
    Objectives:

    ∙ Define and enumerate the roles of collaboration

    ∙ Explain the concept of teachers helping teachers

    ∙ Determine the seven stages of teachers helping teachers

    ∙ Cite real-life examples that reflects the concept of collaboration and teachers

    helping teachers

    I. Introduction
    Working in teams enables individuals to share knowledge and work more
    efficiently and effectively. Each member of the team is like another resource or tool that
    the team members can leverage to in order to make better and wiser decisions. In
    addition, working together in teams promotes healthy and harmonious work
    relationships which leads to better team performance and overall productivity.
    This concept of working together as a team is called collaboration. Collaboration
    plays a huge part in every organization—whether in the field of business, management,
    sciences, medicine, and of course education. Teachers help each other and serve as
    each other’s resource or tool in order to ensure the development of teaching and
    learning in their respective schools. Chalfant and Psych (1979) actually pioneered a
    Teacher Assistance Team Model which talks about the ways on how collaboration
    works in the field of education and how it can be utilized by the teachers. This model
    was later on adapted by Porter, Wilson, Kelly and den Otter (1991) and designed the
    "Problem Solving Teams: A Thirty Minute Peer-Helping Model." These models both
    addresses the idea of Teachers Helping Teachers.

    II. Content
    A. Role of Collaboration

    Collaboration is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations


    working together to complete a task or achieve a goal.
    Working Collaboration is the process wherein individuals are coming together
    in an organization sharing information, sharing responsibilities, and making group
    decisions.

    Roles of Collaboration in the Workplace


    1. It promotes self- analysis
    Collaboration challenges people to think, articulate, and receive clarity
    about their competencies. It serves as a mirror that gives them a glimpse
    of their strengths and weaknesses.
    2. It results in problem solving
    Collaboration ought to inform the way the team works. The more eyes on
    a given particular problem, the easier it becomes to spot problems and
    solve them.
    3. It makes the members see the bigger picture
    Different people working in collaboration with a team from different
    backgrounds will give each of the member more chance to grasp the
    differences that they have. They will definitely complement each other in
    various areas and they can use it for the benefit of the organization.
    4. It helps people learn from each other
    When teams are collaborating, they are essentially learning new things
    from each other. The organization becomes a body which encourages a
    culture of continuous learning, and supports that learning through
    opportunities for growth and development. Whenever team members
    collaborate, they enhance their capacity to go and grow beyond their
    comfort zones.
    5. It breaks down barriers
    Successful organizations always put their team members in collaboration.
    Team members of the single department are not just in collaboration but it
    extends across all departments in an organization. Everybody will
    contribute towards certain goals in an organization. It will provide a great
    feedback loop that can be used for projects. Everyone in the team will be
    able to express their opinion to better deliver the company goals, therefore
    breaks down barriers.
    6. It increases efficiency
    Collaborating in the workplace enables the team to finish important tasks
    and meet crucial deadlines efficiently. With multiple individuals working on
    a project, the work can be divided up equally and efficiently between those
    with the time and the expertise to handle specific tasks. This also
    significantly reduces the task delivery time. Often referred to as the divide
    and conquer strategy, it entails teaming up of several individuals together,
    dividing up the tasks among them, and accomplishing it in relatively less
    time.
    7. It enhances employee retention and job satisfaction
    Collaboration brings meaning and adds value to the way team members
    perceive their job. Because of this, they feel good about what they do. The
    sense of team spirit is felt most strongly when victories can be shared.

    B. Teachers Helping Teachers

    Teachers Helping Teachers is based on "Problem Solving Teams: A Thirty


    Minute Peer-Helping Model", which was developed by Porter, Wilson, Kelly and
    den Otter (1991). It is an adaptation of "The Teacher Assistance Team Model",
    which was first pioneered by Chalfant and Psych (1979).
    Teachers helping teachers systematically follows seven steps in 30
    minutes:
    1. Briefly introducing a frustrating problem that is faced by a referring teacher
    and providing an overview of the process for addressing that problem.
    2. Listening to a statement of the problem in the words of the referring
    teacher.
    3. Conducting a group discussion with the referring teacher concerning the
    details of the problem.
    4. Brainstorming among colleagues in the presence of the referring teacher
    on potential solutions to the problem.
    5. Selection by the referring teacher of the most workable strategies
    presented during the brainstorming for addressing the problem at the
    present time.
    6. Development of an action plan that will ensure appropriate responses to
    the problem.
    7. Closing the meeting.

    Note: This approach is designed to take no more than 30 minutes of teacher time
    for any given problem-solving meeting.

    Teachers helping teachers is based on the following principles:


    • Students have a right to a quality education.
    • Teachers have a responsibility to provide a quality education.
    • Teachers are capable human beings who are able to learn a great deal from
    one another and from their other partners in education.
    • Collaboration, teamwork, self-confidence and innovation, rather than teacher
    isolation and reliance on experts from outside the school, are required more
    than ever to address today's challenges in education.
    • The educational system is able to serve all students effectively when teachers
    collaborate intelligently and effectively.
    • New ideas and fresh approaches to problems are generated where partners
    in education have opportunities to think about, and share ideas on,
    constructive options.
    • No matter how difficult the challenges may seem, teachers and their other
    partners in education can together make a positive difference in the lives of
    students and their families.

    Who is involved in the process?


    Teachers Helping Teachers is an approach to problem solving that recognizes
    the importance of the following partners in education:
    • the "referring teacher";
    • someone to whom referring teachers can go with their difficulties;
    • the problem-solving team;
    • the team facilitator;
    • the recorder.

    What other factors are involved?


    The Teachers Helping Teachers approach recognizes that the following cultural
    factors and values are important in the educational environment:
    • trust among colleagues;
    • a willingness by teachers, administrators and other partners in education to
    recognize and be honest about their personal and professional limitations;
    • positive encouragement to share difficulties with colleagues;
    • non-critical attitudes among colleagues towards partners in education who
    are facing particular difficulties;
    • the assumption that all partners in education have valuable insights to offer
    that can enrich one another;
    • confidence that, by working constructively together, partners in education can
    make a positive difference for one another and for the students they serve;
    • the assumption that the referring teacher is in the best position to judge which
    strategies should ultimately be used to address the particular challenge they
    are facing.

    Note: These factors are present in educational environments where the Teachers
    Helping Teachers approach works most effectively.

    III. References
    https://www.slideshare.net/belziebub/collaboration-in-workplace
    https://blog.jostle.me/blog/why-collaboration-is-important
    https://www.proofhub.com/articles/importance-team-collaboration-workplace
    https://www.nutcache.com/blog/the-importance-of-collaboration-in-the-
    workplace/#:~:text=Collaboration%20challenges%20people%20to%20think,and
    %20plug%20each%20other's%20gaps.
    https://inclusioncanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/TEACHERS-HELPING-
    TEACHERS-Manual.pdf
    https://www.edutopia.org/blog/preventing-teacher-burnout-katy-farber

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