A Teachers’ Collaboration

Teachers should work together to improve efforts. Collaboration among experts and students promotes learning in any institution. Since instructors learn the importance of comprehending the design framework as they reflect and change the UbD design, the collaborative culture actually improves teachers’ performance. Working together with other experts, like media specialists or ESL instructors, helps teachers walk the talk, model the right mindset, and use technology more effectively.

To enhance their interactions and information-seeking, teachers must work together. In other words, because technology is advancing quickly, teachers must work with it to become more productive. Wiggins and McTighe (2005) asserts that technology provides a mechanism through which teachers use a searchable database to validate units. This enhances learning since the teachers learn how to develop curriculum, which benefits them and the learners. Wiggins and McTighe (2005) further asserts that when teachers focus on the exemplars regularly, they become creative and efficient. As such, there would be high quality units delivered to students and other professionals. For example, online curriculum design is based on three stages of backward design, which promote templates, rubrics, and performance assessment.

The teachers should walk the talk by applying what they learn from other professionals. For example, when a teacher attends national UbD Institute, he/she meets special educators and ESL teachers who provide useful teaching strategies. Such strategies might go to waste if they are not implemented. Wiggins and McTighe (2005) assert that collaboration removes the teacher from the comfort zone of knowing that his/her design is sound to try other standard designs. In this regard, the teacher validates the curriculum to meet the high standard required regionally or nationally.

Collaboration helps the teachers to seek for guidance and clarification on the required assessment. Wiggins and McTighe (2005) noted that collaboration is a mental model, which invokes planning, and activity oriented mind. This is because professionals such as educational technologists provide a valuable database to enable the teacher not to rely on the textbooks. As such, the learners have alternative sources of learning.

Reference

Wiggins, G. P., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by design. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development