InTASC Standard #10
Leadership and Collaboration
The teacher seeks appropriate leadership roles and opportunities to take responsibility for student learning, to collaborate with learners, families, colleagues, other school professionals, and community members to ensure learner growth, and to advance the profession (InTASC, 2013).
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Name of Artifact: Benefits of Collaboration in Education
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Date of Artifact: November 22, 2022
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Course in which this artifact was produced: SPED 210-Collaboration in Relationships in Special Education
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​Brief Description of Evidence: In the fall of 2022, in my SPED 210, Collaborative Relationships in Special Education course, I completed an infographic. This Benefits in Collaboration infographic represents InTASC Standard 10. This infographic highlights the benefits of collaboration with teachers, students, families and community members.
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Reflection:
Analysis of What I Learned: From this artifact, I learned who the stakeholders are in education. The stakeholders consist of students, parents, teachers, school staff and administrators, and community members. Collaboration with each of these stakeholders is essential to education and successful outcomes for each student. A few benefits of collaborating with other teachers include brainstorming creative ideas, sharing responsibilities, improving school culture and increasing time and efficiency. An increase in self-esteem, responsibility, higher-level thinking and improved oral communication skills are all benefits to collaborating with students. Collaborating with families can improve student academic performance, build trust and positive relationships and promote students’ emotional well-being. I learned the benefits of collaborating with the community includes creating better learning experiences, developing a knowledge of resources available to schools and families and building relationships with community partners. There are many ways to collaborate with stakeholders starting with just opening the lines of communication, inviting families and community members into the school, providing volunteering opportunities, holding meetings to identify common interests and goals, and allow students to have a voice in their education.
How This Artifact Demonstrates my Competence on the InTASC Standard: This artifact demonstrates my competence on the InTASC Standard 10 because it represents my knowledge of who stakeholders are in education and my understanding of the benefits of collaborating with parents, teachers, administrators and community members. This artifact represents Joyce Epstein’s theory on parent involvement in education. Joyce Epstein's Framework of Six Types of Involvement describes six essential dimensions of youth, family, and community engagement and partnership in schools (Engagement, 2019). This artifact represents the communication dimension. The communication dimension of Joyce Epstein’s Framework of Six Types of Involvement states that we should communicate with families about the school programs and student progress (Engagement, 2019). My artifact identifies several educational and social benefits of collaborating with different stakeholders and gives examples of a few different ways to begin collaborating with stakeholders. This artifact demonstrates my ability to advance the profession by creating an eye-catching infographic in order to educate stakeholders and advocate the importance of collaboration and the benefits including higher academic achievement, improved social skills for students and overall a more positive school environment. In my future role as an educator, my goal is to communicate regularly with parents. Sometimes, I feel like the only time that parents are contacted is when something is wrong. Parents love to hear about how their child is doing and I think it is important to share the positive things regularly also! By doing this, my hope is to open the lines of communication and break down barriers between the school and parents. I hope this will encourage parents to be more involved with their child’s school and education. Another small way I plan to open up the lines of communication is to encourage parents to send encouraging, positive and loving letters or just little notes, that I could share with their child when they are having a bad day or maybe before an important test.
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Resources
Council of Chief State School Officers. (2013, April). Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium InTASC Model Core Teaching Standards and Learning Progressions for Teachers 1.0: A Resource for Ongoing Teacher Development. Washington, DC: Author.
Engagement, O. (2019, November 5). Framework of six types of involvement. Organizing Engagement. Retrieved March 8, 2022, from https://organizingengagement.org/models/framework-of-six-types-of-involvement/
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