Coaching: Collaboration In Schools

Coaching. Begin typing here. Collaboration. Carroll (2014) viewed collaboration as an essential contributor to a school’s culture and a means to transform schools into learning organizations. School leadership is required to support planned, ongoing collaboration. District leadership, by providing job-embedded professional development and “fostering collaboration around instructional improvement” (p. 8), can help building leaders establish a collaborative school climate. This is one of the few policy documents that expanded leadership to the district level, thus recognizing that principals need district-level support to transform the working conditions in their buildings. Collegiality. Ladd (2011) stated that collegiality, or the “relationships between school leaders and teachers and interactions among teachers” (p. 237) is a fundamental workplace condition in schools. This finding is supported by Johnson et al. (2011) in their analysis of data on job satisfaction, career intentions, and workplace conditions by Massachusetts teachers. Johnson et al. (2011) asserted that “social conditioning – the school’s culture, the principal’s leadership, and …show more content…
273). Of these, four were found to be implemented more often: supportive communication, formal collaboration, beginning teacher seminars or classes, and common planning time (Kang & Berliner, 2012). Three practices were found to influence teachers’ decision to remain in their current teaching assignments: seminars or classes for novice teachers, common planning time, and extra classroom assistance (Kang & Berliner,