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TEA Collaborative Learning Group
Annual Report
Jrogers
2003
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How did your work with your team help you meet the professional growth goals you
set for yourself?
By working with my colleagues, I was able to get them excited about something that they largely hadn't considered before; that is, the value of teaching oceanography and polar science to land-locked Montana students.
How did your work with your team impact your content knowledge and pedagogy?
Since everyone had something unique to bring to the table, or put another way, a parcticular skill to offer, our work together was mutually beneficial. Mike, for example, has superior technology skills and knowledge which will prove useful in developing activities using computers for analysis of ocean data. Mary Alice always introduces an element of "fun" to each lesson which is always important in learning.
And both of my elementary colleagues offered different approaches to learning about the arctic environment that I had not considered before such as the use of visual arts, language (e.g. Inupiat), and reading.
What materials / resources / workshops did you
use / produce / host with your team members over the last year?
None as yet.
Based on the past year,
what ideas do you have to improve the effectiveness of
your team interactions?
None really as everyone works well together. The hardest part is finding a common meeting time. Because of the different nature of our desired goals between my high school and elementary school colleagues, it works better to meet in separate groups. However, we are planning a joint meeting to plan an "arctic/oceanographic" event during the week in May when Dr. Jim Swift visits Polson.
Total hours of collaboration with each team member:
Mike Sitter and Mary Alice Thomas- 6 hrs. each
Gail Gilcrest and Tammy Morrison- 2 hrs. each
Additional reflections:
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