ISTE Standards: Educators
2.4 Collaboration
Educators dedicate time to collaborate with both colleagues and students to improve practice, discover and share resources and ideas, and solve problems.
Educators:
2.4.a
Dedicate planning time to collaborate with colleagues to create authentic learning experiences that leverage technology.
2.4.b
Collaborate and co-learn with students to discover and use new digital resources and diagnose and troubleshoot technology issues.
2.4.c
Use collaborative tools to expand students' authentic, real-world learning experiences by engaging virtually with experts, teams and students, locally and globally.
2.4.d
Demonstrate cultural competency when communicating with students, parents and colleagues and interact with them as co-collaborators in student learning.
Reflection #1
Thoughts on Standard 2.4
Collaboration is a vital hallmark of socialization. The loss of in-person contact created a deficiency in social behaviors that mainly affected our youth. Learning how to work together in groups is something of necessity after the high school journey. Whether learners are in college, trade school, the military, or the workforce, they need the proper communicative skills to accomplish short- and long-term goals.
Reflection #2
Relevance to my practice
Community service is a significant part of the development of students in my program. Students will have to work at various service sites where collaboration is essential. For example, our students working at the Jersey Explorer Children's Museum would have to collaborate in physically putting together the Vietnam Memorial presentation. This setup would transport the audience back to the late 60s and see a vintage bedroom setup up by a newly drafted teenager headed to the war-plagued country. In addition, our food pantry work requires team efforts and communicative skills to carry out the required tasks.
Project #1 Building PLNs Through Twitter
Having a Twitter page that focuses strictly on my educational journey will allow me to network with like-minded professionals on topics that impact our students daily. For example, I follow the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) organization, and they tweet advice daily on incorporating SEL (social-emotional learning) strategies into the classroom. In addition, I can build fellowship with other educators and foster meaningful and productive relationships as we share advice and other resources.