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THE PRACTICE: Professional development should provide learning opportunities that relate to individual needs but are, for the most part, organized around collaborative problem solving.
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Content Presented By:
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National Partnership for Excellence & Accountability in Teaching
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What is it?
Without collaborative problem solving, individual change is possible, but school change is not. Collaborative problem-solving activities allow educators to work together to identify both problems and solutions. Activities may include interdisciplinary teaming, curriculum development and critique, collaborative action research, and study groups.
Questions to Think About
- How does the school structure and leadership need to change in order
to support collaborative problem-solving?
- What resources are needed for collaborative problem-solving to flourish
within a school?
- What evidence do educators use to demonstrate the benefits of
collaborative problem-solving in improving student performance?
- What barriers or resistance exists to using collaborative
problem-solving as a professional development practice within a school?
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