Quick dips: Enhancing instructional practices
How to enhance instructional practices with teacher collaboration
Teacher collaboration is now widely recognized as a crucial element for improving instructional practices focused on supporting English Learners (ELs) For collaboration to be effective, it must be meaningful and centered on specific approaches to integrating content learning and language development.
Guiding questions
- How do your structures and schedules demonstrate that teacher collaboration is a priority?
- How is collaboration woven into the school culture and daily operations?
- What supports are necessary to ensure effective and productive collaborative relationships and instructional practices?
- How can collaboration for EL success be intentionally incorporated into your school-wide improvement efforts?
Resources to enhance your instructional practices
- Collaboration: Working Together to Serve Multilingual Learners (WIDA)
- ELLs are Everyone’s Kids (Colorín Colorado)
- Co-Teaching and Collaboration: The Role of Administrators; PowerPoint (NY State Department of Education)
- Together We Are Better (TESOL Blog)
