Okay, Okay. So I will be honest and say that I feel like recently my blog has become more of a promotion of education than anything else but in reality, all the things I am talking about are important in education and are in need of some serious rival in our school systems today.
Collaborativeness is no exception. In order for a school system to be successful it needs to incorporate collaboration between all departments. What makes collaberativeness effective is engaging participants. Every achievement begins with a choice and in order to achieve great things in the classroom, every teacher needs to make a choice to work wither not only the students to their best ability but also with other teachers as well.
It should also be noted that collaboration is different than group work or cooperative learning due to the fact that collaboration involves each person sharing and giving ideas. In group projects and often cooperative learning, not everyone is doing equal amounts of work. Also, during these instances, often times people do their own work and then come together.
For example, for my religion project on the Dead Sea Scrolls, my group was suppose to investigate the community involved in making the scrolls. While we were all suppose to work together on this, every college student knows that everyone's schedules are hectic and finding a time to meet in person is limited. So after several attempts to get together to work on it, we decided that we would just have to do our own separate parts and all come together at the very end of the project to try and present a well polished piece.
As you can see, collaboration is effective because it is rare. If teachers would collaborate with each other people, I think they would find their jobs more enjoyable and easier. However, time plays a huge factor in collaboration and sadly, in this day and age, people simply do not have the time.
But my theory on this is if music artists can collaborate, why can't teachers?
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