Collaboration

This study explores the impact of teacher collaboration on student achievement using longitudinal data from elementary schools. Researchers found a strong correlation between the quality of a teacher's colleagues and their students' academic performance, suggesting that teachers learn from each other. The study revealed that when teachers have more effective peers, their students tend to achieve higher test scores in math and reading. This effect is particularly pronounced for less…

This study aims to explore current collaborative practices in the US, as well as investigate how the implementation varies based on districts. The sample schools were chosen through a national sample of school districts in the United States. The data was collected through a questionnaire that included multiple-choice and open-ended questions from the leaders of multilingual or EL programs. As a result, the researchers found that collaborative practices are more…

In this narrative documentary case study of one international school’s change process, Mulazzi and Nordmeyer outline how the K12 ESOL/EAL department redefined itself and then established structures to integrate a new role for EAL teachers within the larger school community. As the department evolved, EAL teachers recognized that making the transition from isolated language teachers to integrated language specialists required attention to the change process. The authors propose that EAL…

This teacher-friendly research synthesis describes professional collaboration among educators. It discusses the importance of collaboration, particularly for multilingual learners and highlights the shift from viewing multilingual learners as a separate group in need of remediation to viewing them as part of a larger continuum of English language development. It emphasizes the use of a cyclical process of collaboration, including co-planning, co-teaching, co-assessing, and co-reflecting to support the language and content…

This study investigates the quality of collaboration in instructional teams and student achievement. The data was collected from 9,000 teachers through surveys and observations in Miami-Dade County public schools. The survey result showed that 90% of the teachers reported that collaboration with other teachers was helpful. Moreover, teachers found developing instructional strategies and reviewing formative assessments were the most helpful practices. The study also revealed that schools where the instructional…

In this paper, high school teacher Emily shares her own experience of collaboration. Emily found herself co-teaching with no prior training or support. This top-down implementation of co-teaching caused a lack of understanding of the process and the purpose of co-teaching. Emily highlighted that her co-teaching with three different teachers in her first semester taught her that her and the students’ engagement and success relied on her collaboration with the…

This paper aims to provide information about the terminological framework used to define teacher collaboration in previous research. The authors identified 82 studies that fulfilled the inclusion criteria. After reviewing the studies, they documented findings under five categories; the terminological differences to define teacher collaboration, the focus and depth of teacher collaboration, potential positive and negative consequences of the collaboration, what is needed for successful teacher collaboration, and how successful…

This 3-year-long case study describes a co-teaching model to support ELL students. The school the study is conducted within consists of students belonging to diverse cultures (largely populated by Hmong students, specifically, 80% of the students were students of color and 53 of the students are identified as ELL). In the first year of the study, job-embedded PD was implemented by the university partners, where teachers planned, taught and reflected…