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How Does Teacher Collaboration Enhance our Mission?
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Tenet 1 - Articulated High Expectations
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- Through collaboration, teachers monitor and adjust their
teaching to ensure high expectations are being articulated
and met.
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Tenet 2 – Meeting the Needs of the Whole Child
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Tenet 3 – Teachers as Learners
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- 90 minutes of daily collaboration time for every core
teacher.
- Structured collaboration planning to enable reflection
and maximize accountability.
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OVERVIEW
Teachers at LCCS work with a teaching partner at their grade level.
At Lighthouse we work to leverage the individual wisdom and talent
of each teacher to collectively develop our professional practice.
We leverage the individual wisdom and talent of each teacher by
providing structured daily collaboration time for each grade level
teaching partnership. The Lighthouse schedule has been created
to ensure that our teachers have over seven hours of collaboration
each week. Partner teachers will develop collaboration plans which
will be submitted to the Director of Instruction who will attend
several collaboration events. The Director of Instruction will
work with partner teachers to evaluate the efficacy of different
collaborative meetings and will facilitate partner teacher reflection
and planning. In the end, Lighthouse teachers will share their
individual strengths and wisdom with their peers to enhance the
collective capacity of our entire staff.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Each Lighthouse Teacher has one hour to ninety minutes collaboration
time set aside in their daily schedule. This time is to be used
to develop teacher capacity in achieving the school mission by
encouraging collaboration. Deliberate collaboration is often a
new experience for teachers and we have developed a Collaboration
Plan that builds in accountability and reflection into the collaboration
experience. The Collaboration Plan (see template below) is created
by partner teachers and covers two weeks time. The plan is designed
to delineate:
- Daily usage of collaboration time
- Goals for each collaborative event
- When the Director of Instruction will be present
- When partner teachers will reflect upon the efficacy of their
collaboration with the Director of Instruction
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