Education World – Nicole Gorman
“A new study from an assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Education looks at the relationships that teachers have with their colleagues and how certain ones are directly correlated to teacher and student success, the first study of its kind on a district level. “The researchers used surveys and administrative data to study more than 9,000 teachers in 336 schools to determine the amount and quality of collaborative efforts among teachers in the Miami-Dade County Public School System, the 4th-largest district in the country,” said Phys.org. The study divided areas of collaboration into three kinds: “instructional strategies and curriculum; instructional approaches to groups or specific students, regarding classroom work, student discipline and class management; and approaches to assessment, including review of state test results,” the article said.”(more)