Conversations

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**__8.3 Teacher Conversations__**

//** How does your school/district currently support and or encourage collaboration between teachers? ** //

It is very difficult to collaborate with teachers at my current school due to a lack of common planning time and resources. It seems as if we are all so invested in our own material that we rarely step outside our classrooms, and when we do go about doing so, we have a milieu of other issues that must be attended to first. Yet, I do believe that on a district level we do a good job of meeting monthly in order to discuss problems and keep ourselves on pace.

//How much do you seek to collaborate with teachers and how do you accomplish this? //

I do not seek to collaborate with other teachers all that much. Yet, when I have, it has been internationally, as I have tried to set up live "skype" chats with students in different countries.

//To what extent do you think collaboration is of growing importance for teachers seeking to implement a 21st century classroom? //

Though I sadly do not collaborate with other teachers as much as I should, I believe it is extremely important. As technology pushes us forward, knowledge of all kinds is becoming far more accessible and fluid. No longer are social issues being relegated to just that realm - all issues are becoming interconnected - and thus so must we. Yet, I believe this change must come from the top, just as much as it does from the bottom, as is referenced in the article: Collaborative Crusader