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I think that finding time to work collaboratively is difficult but finding motivation to do that is even more difficult. We should start thinking that this methodology is more effective  and that we all will get benefits at the end.
I agree that we should have time to work at school with our collegues and that this type os methodologies should be promoted by our Ministries.

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"Finding time for ‘true teacher collaboration’ is challenging in the way schools are currently organised" is quite a challenge nowadays but it's more and more crucial. Working with teachers from different subjects can be useful because sometimes the topics are the same and they can be worked at the same time in different subjects; we can also share resources. I think teachers' timetable should have time for collaborative work.

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I strongly believe that finding time for collaboration with other teachers can be challenging but very useful and should be implemented whenever possible.

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I strongly believe that finding time for collaboration with other teachers can be challenging but very useful and should be implemented whenever possible.

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Collaborate with other teachers require a lot of time to do that. Unfortunately, this kind of teaching methodolgy is not yet comprised in teachers timetables and most of thr times we do it by spending less time with our families or planning or correcting our students work.

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When teachers collaborate, they are models for pupils. Collaboration could be very productive but it must be a good and hard working team of people.

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Collaborative work can be very productive, but it requires a lot of dedication, time and reflection. Can not be done after 5 or 6 hours of classes at various levels. The school needs to find time so that teachers can do collaborative work. I have done some collaborative work, with colleagues from Geography, but it is very difficult, there are compatible hours.

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I find it impossible to collaborate with colleagues during school hours because we are always with our classes in teaching time, and after Teaching, we only have one hour for parents meetings and official paperwork. So imagine the amount of homework we take home and no time for coordination and collaboration is provided.
I agree with many of you that point out lack of time as an issue, and I liked Teresa Rowet's comment about it.
About the importance of collaboration between teachers from different disciplines, I agree with Honorata Pereira as being very enritching and open minded for teachers experience, but again the lack of time is an obstacle.

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I think cooperation among teachers is necessary and useful to let our pupils acquire key competences. The essencial condition is that every teacher in a group should understand the need to cooperate.

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Is very challenging but is impossible to work alone in schools these days.
If we don't the learning process is compromised.
Meetings between teachers, spaces in their schedule to meet, teacher training are the options that we have to pursiut.
This te way to go, if we want the students prepared for the future.

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I think the collaboration between teachers of different disciplines is not only important as it is also key.
With the new digital tools there is always the possibility of collaborating and our students as well. There is also the possibility that we can collaborate with teachers and students from other countries even in the context of the classroom.

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I agree that finding time within the school day for teacher collaboration is challenging, but technology helps us to better communicate. Furthermore, in my experience, the collaboration with teachers from different disciplines is very important.

Now I'm enjoying very much the suggestion on the involvement of sceptical teachers too, so that they could be part of a team as observers. For me this is a very informative topic.

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I think that collaborating with other teachers offers great opportunities to grow, clarify doubts, overcoming difficulties. Really we must get used to find the time for this. It could be hard at first owing to our lack of time, but in the future we will save a lot of that time..

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I'm agree that  to find time to between teachers collaboration is challenging but is  important  and necessary  and we must groped to overcoming any obstacle.
I agree that   working with teachers from different disciplines can be very useful.
My  opinion for this to work   is to be open and willing to collaborate.

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I think that it’s very important finding time for collaboration. If I’m attending the course i think so !

Time for these activities is really diufficult to find but it’s a chance we can have to improve our teaching work.

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Time and the great volume of work are great obstacles for a teacher. The challenge is how to overcome it. It's very difficult, but we have to try.

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Dear colleague,

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It is important to develop a culture of collboration between teachers first

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It is important to develop a culture of collboration between teachers first

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To find time is always a problem but I think that it's very important to collaborate with other teachers in order to share experiences, materials and so on. I think that is fundamental to have collaboration also with teachers of other disciplines becouse we have to  think about inte-disciplinary modules. Of course  all this asks a lot of time and work. in my opinion  at least 2 hours a week should be dedicated to this collaboration.

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Time is always a problem for a teacher. The challenge is how to overcome it It's very difficult but we have to try.

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In my opinion teachers must have hours in their lective time to work collaboratively. This hours should be written by the school administration, at the teachers timetable. Let the teachers make some changes in their work, is another need. The portuguese curriculum is open minded, but the objectives to achive are a lot, and difficult ones, accounting student's age. So, school'directors put grades above all. They don't consider that teachers can work themes differently, and have good results in exams, e.g. Everybody knows that collaborative work takes more time to achieve knowledge. So, why spend more time, when teachers can explain everything???
Regarding students work, is very important to know that collaborative tasks allow students to have time for themselves, this way they will learn and remember longer the subjects they are working, because of motivation.
All activities that I have done with other teachers were great, students enjoyed very much and the best part is that they didn't forget anything. The environment in school was excellent, among all the comunity.
The work that I do best with students is experimental work. They learn things more profund, and mostly, they like to share their knowledge with colleagues from other classes. Technology is an important resource to that success. I use different apps, simulators and sensors.

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I totally agree with colleague José, from Portugal.

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In my opinion the truthly way of having time to be collaborative is schedulelling time, by school management, at the teachers timetable, and let teachers have some changes to work together in small activities, class activities, at least. By other hand, we need to stay consciencious and available to negociate, to find a way together in working collaboratively.

Regarding students work, is very important to know that collaborative tasks between teachers that envolved students also may require some time for students, so is important stay in touch with student's timetable and manage activities that allow students to have time for themselves.

All activities that I have done with other teachers were great, and students enjoyed very much and the best part is that they don't forget the content that they did work in this kind of activities, leading, in that way, to deep learning :)

For example working with english teacher, history teacher, my students (in my ICT discipline) developed a Scratch quiz about historical facts, in english, about some european countries; another example is working with Physics teacher, our students developed a 2D animation simulating the planets's orbits in solar system.

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Yes I agree that finding time for collaboration within the school day is very challenging.
It's not impossible to find time to collaborate with colleagues during ordinary time at school. The use of online environments are usefully to facilitate teacher collaboration, but first of all it's necessary a change of mind: collaborative teaching and learning is more interesting, usefully and productive than individual teaching and learning.

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It is not easy in some portuguese schools, teachers, without common timetables and without offices, to meet to share and work as a team.
In some schools it is already tried that this time of meeting and sharing can happen, as in my school, where every fifteen days each group of teachers meets. It is important not only to share using new techonologies but the meeting of teachers.

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I agree that finding time within the school day for teacher collaboration is challenging. I work with my colleagues after classes in persona or during the day online, because we reconized the benefits of collaborative work. I agree that working with teachers from different disciplines can be very useful, because we talk about different things and all teachers grow with others' experiences. In my opinion, the condition needed for collaborative work is to have time to work together in timetable.

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Time is always a problem for a teacher but the challenge is how to overcome it because to collaborate we need some quality time. It's very difficult but we have to try.

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There are benefits of having a dedicated time and space to devote to collaborating together. Collaborating with teachers from different subjects using technology facilitate the process of communication/collaboration.

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Finding time at school to work collaboratively is practically impossible. To overcome this problem we have to use the online tools mostly. Working with teachers from other disciplines may be important but it is still a more difficult challenge to realize. In my opinion, it is necessary to find activities of common interest that can put into practice the knowledge acquired in the two disciplinary areas and both teachers dominate the same online tools or find time in school to do this work which is even more difficult.

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I agree with the teachers from Ireland. In my case is a little simpler as I work in a kindergarten with another 18 colleagues and we all teach the same preschool subjects. Nevertheless, we exchange ideas, plans and activities and we work closely mostly with the teachers who teach the same age group.

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Finding time is always a challenge for a teacher, but time to collaborate is necessary and needs to be contemplated at the time we can do it and this decision is part of the direction of the school.
Interdisciplinarity is very important for the success of the students and when working collaboratively we must bear this in mind

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Finding time within the school day for teacher collaboration is really a challenge. In my school, as we have no classes at Wednesday afternoon, we can plan and schedule meetings for collaborating teams work.

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In Greek school nowadays finding time for true teacher’s collaboration is a real challenge. Most teachers simply teach their subjects and leave, since they have to go to more than two schools. In most cases, the only person who can be found at school almost all the time is the Head.  As far as I am concerned, before two years I had to collaborate with three other colleagues, most of them with completely different disciplines, some of them were not at my school every day. Actually, one of them was at our school only for two days and the program was so tight that we could hardly meet during the working day. We tried to overcome the problem by using phone calls, meetings at non-working hours and digital communication tools, like e-mail, Google Hangouts, Skype and Google Docs. Of course I agree that working with teachers from different disciplines can be very useful and the above mentioned case was a very useful one. The main conditions necessary for this work are the fourth ones mentioned in previous sections as well as open-minds combined with a lot of patience….

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I really agree that finding time within the school day for teacher collaboration is challenging because in ou school schedules we don't have any time for collaboration. So, we have to do it out of schools or after school. To overcome this challenge we communicate and collaborate using some digital technologies such as Google Drive or some communication platforms. In my opinion, the collaboration with teachers from other disciplines is crucial to give students an understanding that all the subjects are connected and that all are important in their learning process.

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I often am in need of other teachers, especially when arranging for school trips, I ask my collegues for suggestions in orde to get the most from this experience. I find time to get in touch with them in the weekends, during schools breaks and online, but I'd like, as I've written before, to have dedicated occasions for this, once a week for example, as it happens in the primary school here in Italy. This opportunity would be more involving, complete and effective.

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At my school we team teach so it's fantastic for feedback regularly. i think I'd like to set aside formal feedback time for discussion about projects etc too.

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Undoubtedly, teachers collaboration within school day is beneficial. It can help teachers solve current problems and improve their skills. Unfortunatelly , it is sometimes difficult to adjust timetables to let this kind of meetings exist.
I stongly believe that collaborating with teachers from different disciplines can be successful. Teachers should be open-minded and try to apply others' solutions in their subjects. They need to be aware of the fact that not every attempt should be successful at the beginning. But making mistakes is humane. so we need to keep trying.

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I believe in the benefits of collaboration teacher within the school day. I make already collaboration work with other teachers about the main documents of the school. But I have to work harder to make more often some collaboration work about the work to do with students in different disciplines. The example presented is very good. Getting feedback from different groups or subjects when we are making our design it could be very useful. I will keep doing some work with teachers from different disciplines. But I want to improve and be more effectivein this collaborative work. I think it should start with different teachers, because I see this only with the same teachers. In my opinion teachers should have some courses, inside the school, to share and know really good experiences about collaboration work.

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In my opinion, it is increasingly difficult in Portugal to work as a team, not because there are no common themes that can be worked on or activities that can be developed together, but there is no time for teachers to do it on their schedule School time. I think the Ministry of Education has to rethink the hourly distribution. This collaborative work can also not be followed by bureaucratic work, such as making a minutes of the teachers' meeting. It should be a time for informal sharing and where teachers can effectively learn from each other.

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In my school I have just one hour of professional development so teachers find it hard to take their time to review my classes and activities so they can assess and make recommendations so we count on our peers good faith in helping out so we can get the feedback.

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I agree that it is important to find time to collaborate with teachers from other disciplines, but often we do not have the time to do this. Faithfully, the tools of communication and collaboration are a great help.

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Yes, finding time within the school day for teacher collaboration is challenging, but nowadays, technology helps a lot. Sometimes it is only at night, at home, that there is time to prepare the work for school and sharing documents over  internet or communication through digital tools makes the job a lot easier.
I also agree that working with teachers from different disciplines can be very useful and sometimes we need some help in order to do this. For me, this Mooc is helping a lot.

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It is difficult for teachers to find time within the school for collaboration but I also now by experience that if teachers want to work togeter they have great opportunity by using techonology, Indeed I find very useful to be able to go on an online environment, and put forward what I  have been doing, or look at what somebody else has been doing. And I  can do it at my own pace, so it doesn’t require that I have to  be in the same place at the same time. And it does allow the sharing of a range of resources, be it video or documents. That’s what I found significant and beneficial-This is the way I work in Twinspace for E-twinning Projects or Erasmus projects .

Something that I thought would be a big challenge today was working with  different subject groups but again if teachers want to get to a common  result they  exchange ideas, they can enrich themselves .
It is useful to design  learning activities together with the colleagues  and compare and exchange ideas between groups and get feedback from different groups, then to decide  what technologies  it is possible to use  to make the collaboration more effective. So, it’s  an iterative cycle. The condition to work at interdisciplinary  way is to have a flexible  mindset and being so humble to be willing to ask for help when it is necessary. But this is not the attitude I find among my colleagues unfortunately,though i try to convince them to try new ways of teaching out !!��� �4

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I find that the question of time is fundamental for an effective collaborative work. teachers simply don't have time to work together because they are used to having their own rythm of work. At school teachers have plenty of work to do and when they finish it they still have work to do at home. So, it's easier to plan everything alone or, from time to time, ask colleagues about what they are doing. Usually we use the evaluation meetings at the end of terms to share experiences but that happens 3 times a year...

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I think it is difficult, but also, it is not unmanegable. The biggest problem is finding additional time and desire to collaborate.

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Because I am a teacher in a village, finding time is really challenging for us.

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I agree that working with teachers from different disciplines can be useful.
But finding the time for collaboration within the school day is very challenging.

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The time factor is in fact the key to an effective collaboration. In our schools we are submerged with having to teach many classes and doing many tasks in the middle of that process. Teachers are tired and on top of that there are the disciplinary problems they have to deal with. When teachers meet and work together they are often using their personal time, obviously our profession cannot depend on the good will of the teachers.

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I agree because certain periods we are really busy at school and it is nearly impossible to find time to collaborate and meet . My solutions: we text messages, send emails and then we look for a spare hour at school to meet and define our ideas. I totally agree that collaboration among different subject teachers is the ideal condition of working at school in order to plan cross curricula projects and activities

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It would be a very important and effective experience to work in a real collaboratively way with my colleagues, but this doesn't happen very frequently. I think that this depends on the good will of a group of teachers that are aware of this aspect of teaching. Last year I worked with my colleagues of different subjects and everyone took own ideas and experience to realize some projects. This should be part of our professional experience; considering the working in group as a process that goes on in time , but it must be designed and planned to work well and have excellent results.

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I completly agree that finding time within the school day for teacher collaboration is challenging. There is the school timetable, there are different school tasks .... it is not easy to find a time slot when 3-4 teachers are available for working together. Working with teachers from different disciplines is very useful - as it brings different working procedures (discipline specific) and different knowledge together. Life is not made-up of diciplines .... in real life, the student has to solve problems which are not discipline specific. Collaboration with teachers from different disciplines can support us to provide high quality learning experiences to our students.

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To answer these questions I have to turn back to the nineties when I used to work in a secondary  school "Liceo linguistico Europeo" On those days we teachers from different subjects spent long hours at school to plan, share and organize projects together to enable our students to have a different views about a  specific topic. Very little technology was involved in those years, but cooperation among teachers seemed to be effective. But time passes and and in Italy lots of things have happened: two or more school education reforms and in the meanwhile  I moved from Liceo to a technological secondary school. These last few years have dramatically changed my approach to my discipline which is English, and the need to work together seems to be for me even more urgent. And here technology have come at handy. In my school there are 160 teachers, a huge number. Every year most of us change classes, students and colleagues, some of us move to other schools. But we are lucky, the school is equipped with many IT instruments and tools: computers for the ITC course, interactive white boards in every classroom, digital electronic register educational platform such as moodle. Despite this, cooperation and collaboration among teachers is still a challenge. I cooperate with few of my colleagues, some others  seem to be interested but somehow scared of the amount of time which this work necessarily requires. In my opinion the conditions needed to work together is more awareness of our talents and expertise, to talk with each other  at a reasonable pace even though in day-to-day life, it’s really busy, and much more as for example, taking part in MOOC to see, compare experiences,share ideas and cooperate with other colleagues all around Europe

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Collaboration with my school colleagues has been encouraged through projects.  Not only us but our students as well seemed to enjoy the result as a particular topic was elaborated through crosscurricular approach.Beyond project work is difficult to collaborate though. ​HERE you can see an example of successful collaboration between school colleagues and colleagues from Spain.

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I believe that the Time factor has really an huge importance. Sometimes school organisation does not benefitiate collaborative work and that's why technologies can assume a more important role, allowing collaborative work at a distance. The most important condition in fact is the wiil to do collaborative work, to have all the actors at the same pace.

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I see a set time for collaboration as an excellent idea. However, I am afraid there would be opposition to it in my school. Nearly all the colleagues want to leave work as fast as possible and the idea of staying at work longer to collaborate would be off-putting for them. I could see it last week when a colleague of mine loudly protested that she would have to get to school an hour earlier than usual. And she is young and has no children. Unfortunately she is not the only one to behave like that. There are not many colleagues to show a willingness to stay at work longer to do something for their students.

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This year I am working in a secondary school as an "empowering teacher", a new entry into italian teacher roles. I was charged of planning projects, but I am compelled to work with colleagues that have no idea about PBL, collaborative learning and teaching. It's very hard for me, a true challenge. There is a lot of confusion about sharing responsibilities, planning activities and the assessments. They are obsessed only about outcomes and time scheduling. But I want students have a good experience. So I'm trying to use my little space of autonomy to show other approaches and practices and let my colleagues see how different (and effective) they are. I hope that my behaviour could produce new mindset in my colleagues. But I should have better skills about leadership!

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It would be so nice to have the time and timetabling factor embedded in school organization in order to really experiment with collaborative teaching. This year I have a free lesson which fortunately corresponds to a free lesson which the Art History teacher has. This means that we can work together on an eTwinning project together with partners in Greece and Cyprus where I help out on the language factor and he has all the mathematical and architectural skills. It's really great but this experience is based on more luck than judgement. I wonder if I have the courage to suggest to the colleague who organizes our school timetable to bear this in mind next year.

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Usually I work with other subjects teachers.
Example:
Math, ICT and Programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIpXrdi5WKU
Arts, ICT, RObotics, Physics and Programming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQdh-h9tecw&t=54s

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I agree that working with teachers from different disciplines can be very usefu

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Dulce Freire, Fernanda Cunha, Marco Fernandes and Vítor Silva, Portugal

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Dulce Freire, Fernanda Cunha, Marco Fernandes and Vítor Silva, Portugal

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Yes, we agree with the first question. It is one of the main reasons that teachers point out not to try something new and different and hence be a hindrance to collaborative work. So far only the four of us who are carrying out this MOOC and another one or two are engaged in this situation, the solutions found were stealing time to the family and as we lived away from each other we turned to the mail to exchange ideas and the group created for this purpose In the office 365. Yes, we agree with the work interdisciplinary, however, again in our school this is not verified. In general teachers are not available to this. The need to use knowledge from one area in another (for example: Physics and Mathematics or Chemistry and Biology) is proof of this situation, it would be useful to have the experience and knowledge of colleagues from other areas.

To start we need to change mentalities, then conditions such time within the school day to work together, above mentioned, and features such as functional net ...

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I agree is not easy to find time within the school day for teacher collaboration. In Portugal teachers’ schedule is full and most teachers have some extra duties and a lot of burocratic work at school, what makes it difficult. In my school, teachers asked and now we have a common school hour for teachers of the same department being together collaborating - sharing and discussing ideas, materials, methods and tools. Teachers and students benefit. We also try to work with colleagues from different disciplines, but it’s even more difficult. The use of online environments facilitates teacher collaboration, but it’s not enough. In my opinion the conditions needed for teacher collaboration should be foreseen in the organization of the school year.

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I think the issue here is all about time: Everybody’s schedule is completely full, and still, people have to manage to get together with colleagues and work! Sometimes you can do it, sometimes you don’t have the time… In the school where I work, teachers’ schedules have, fortunately, a bit of time to dedicate to collaborative work (but It is still in beta testing, because this was the first year). Nevertheless, teachers are trying to make an effort, to improve, to get better, to deliver a better learning experience to their students!

Everybody will benefit with sharing: methods, tools or materials to enrich work!

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Yes I agree that finding time for collaboration within the school day is very challenging.
It's not impossible to find time to collaborate with colleagues during ordinary time at school. The use of online environments are usefully to facilitate teacher collaboration, but first of all it's necessary a change of mind: collaborative teaching and learning is more interesting, usefully and productive than individual teaching and learning.

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Yes I agree that finding time for collaboration within the school day is very challenging.  I also agree that working with teachers from different disciplines is very helpful.

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If I want that students work in collaboration, I also have to work in this way with my colleagues. Time lack is a big problem, I use my extra time to work in a collaborative way, using Technology (dropbox, google docs, WhatsApp)

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In day-to-day school life it’s really hard to just to find time to plan together but to find time to teach cooperatively and not just single subjects.
In my eTwinning experience I have been working with a Science teacher and I find it very useful because we collaborate on the same activity with different tasks  planned together. This is not the rule yet but I think it is the best way.

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Interdisciplinary teaching can provide a powerful model of academic engagement for both instructors and students. It allows the exchange of new information, a shift in intellectual paradigms formerly based on ownership of knowledge, and the pleasure of a collaborative effort.
Yet, interdisciplinary teaching is not a panacea to the challenges of designing a course, of working in the classroom, of interacting with one’s own students, and of addressing the often very specific needs of one’s department. Collaborative efforts can, in fact, make the larger process of teaching more complex, requiring greater organization, patience, and flexibility.

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I agree with the importance of working collaboratively with teachers from different disciplines, although I believe it is necessary to have a great knowledge and involvement among the people who will work in this way. This type of work allows, as I mentioned in the padlet, a great sharing and mutual learning.

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A Collaboration between schools is Promotes more efficient and creative work

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Collaboration between different schools and different discipline is the best way to create a complete work,because all can share their experience and ideas

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Undoubtedly it is a great challenge in our school to find time for collaboration particularly in our school which works with 2 shifts. We don't have a long break between classes. I think an institutional attitude needs to be developed in order to spread the collaboration in any school.

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I  have already answered in part in the previous padlet. Rarely have I been able to work effectively with colleagues from other disciplines. this year I'm trying hope it proves to be a positive experience

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Although it is difficult to find extra time to collaborate with other colleagues within the school day, I try to do it so almost every day, discussing things that we should do concerning an idea or a project to develop. I collaborate also with my colleagues using google forms to share ideas or exchanging mails. As for the collaboration with other teachers from abroad, eTwinning platform with adobe connect or eTwinning projects give me the chance to collaborate and benefit from it.

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The digital tools greatly facilitate the connection between us teachers since the time spent in the school neither allows us to work collaboratively, and in some schools where it exists is for meetings for another purpose. But it is an effort I have to make because it has many advantages and can in the long and medium time facilitate the very management of my time.

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Teacher collaboration between different schools and different discipline is really good to build a complete work because everyone can share own experiences, skills, ideas etc.

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Teachers' collaboration is very important for effective teaching, nevertheless the short amount of time on our working hours that is dedicated to collaboration. I think it's extremely important to find common school hours for teachers being together collaborating as in a department group.

Finding the time for actual collaboration is the second big challenge, considering that teachers are convinced for the benefits of such collaboration. I believe that collaboration among teachers with different subjects is fascinating for students because they get a spherical perspective, enhancing their learning goals.

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I agree that finding time within the school day for teacher collaboration is challenging, but, on the other hand, teachers are very busy people and they have their own families. If a teacher has some extra duties at school, 7 lessons per day, preparation for them, collaboration with other teachers, when will a teacher communicate with his or her family members? Working with teachers from different disciplines perhaps can be useful, but I practically don't have any possibility for that because of the strict timetable at our school. To my mind, school administration should think about the conditions for teacher collaboration

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I absolutely agree that finding time within the school day for teacher collaboration is challenging. Though it benefits the school, the school does not make time for it.  So far, any collaboration project had to find time outside the regular schedule, at night, on weekends. That’s another reason why not many teachers are enthusiastic about the prospect of collaborative work. I think that working with teachers from different disciplines can be useful: one gets a new perspective; one learns about a new style, it enriches the students’ experience. I have worked with teachers from the Arts, History, English, and Science Department. The conditions needed to make this work are the willingness to be open-minded, to use at least some technology - and being able to tolerate the effects of sleep-deprivation. J

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Yes, I do agree that time is the biggest challenge for effective teacher collaboration. The way we try to overcome this challenge is by using digital tools that allow us to communicate and collaborate efficiently without being physically together in the school environment, such as collaborative writing based on cloud storage and edition and communication tools like Skype and Google Talk. However, even with all these tools, as soon as a teacher is at home it becomes a parent and a wife/husband and finding time to dedicate to work activities is still a challenge. That's why, time for the teachers to get together in the school environment during their working day is very important if not at all critical for the success of teacher collaboration.

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I agree that time can be an issue, especially to collaborate within the school environment, as well as  aligning timetables, but technologies, as said, can help. In my school, I work collaboratively with all teacher's, but especially with the 1st grade teacher and it's awesome!

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Collaboration is really important in school, above all for students. If teachers worked together on a common plan/program, student would be more motivated and study for them would be easier.
However, it is not always easy to find collegues who want to collaborate, I think most of them find work on their owns easier than working in group.

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It's extremely important to find a common school hour for teachers being together collaborating as a department group

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Once again, I underline the positive and effective model of collaboration established in Italian Primary school of Tempo Pieno, with two teachers in each class and two hours per week devoted to common planning and evaluation

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Time is precious and there's never enough time to do all you want to do! We need time to teach ourselves the tools there are available now. One needs to try and see what's better to one's students. We sure need collaboration, then it would be easier to learn. I try to work with mixed subects groups...not always successfully. We also need to design activities which make students work together and you always want something good, productive. That's hard work! You need to look at learning intentions and learning outcomes. I really liked the part where it is mentioned we need to focus on students needs (where are they now?; where to go?), not on our needs. Look at teaching as a continuum. The steps are clear. Let's do it.

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Time is indeed a problem. I think the better way to deal with it is by using digital tools that allow us to overcome it. That leads to another problem, some teachers still don't have the skills to work with these tools and need to find time to get training with them. Then there's the problem with will to do collaborative projects.
There are lots of possibilities of interdisciplinary activities if we have the time to establish relations between all the classes' subjects. That should be done in the long run, it's impossible to do it as fast as we'd like it. But experienced teachers already have an idea of some of the subjects they can interchange with others and they should build on that. This interconneciton makes our job easier and allows the students to better undestand the complexities and possibilities of connecting subjects and establishing relations between them. As said before we should lead by our own examples.

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In the past, I found on my way teachers who definetly didn't want collaborate with me. Neverthless, I've always noticed that the common participation in project is a good point of start to collaborate between teachers of different subjects. I mean, before we had the fantastic opportunities that digital tools provide us to work together also when standing in different places or countries, the teachers of a same school worked in cross curricular project based on a shared topin, and it ran very well if the team prepared a well designed project plan. I remember specially a project about "Cities" in 1998. We decided the kids would investigate the topic organizing informations about past and present of relevant european cities (geography, history), environmental problems and industries (geography, sciences), novels or poetry about cities (mother tongue, languages and literature).

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I have pointed out the problem of time from the beginning of this course without knowing that this would have become an issue of discussion. now in Italy there are lots of courses abut CLIL (content language integrated learning) obligatory in the secondary schools and from next year in primary and middle schools too. This means that teachers of different subecjects have to cooperate, coordiante and cooperate in order to build up didactic units or curriculum of different subjects taught in English. It will be very challenging for everyone!

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I do agree with Ms Farrell about the chance that we Secondary English teachers have to work with colleagues from different disciplines  in order to share resources. I've been working for a long time in a technical institute where my colleagues and me have been implementing projects in Electronics, ICT and Chemistry and my experiences with subject teachers have enhanced our pupils’ ability to solve practical problems as well as their proficiency in ESL.

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Finding time to collaborate with fellow teachers at school is challenging indeed. I am, however, trying to do so helping English teachers in my school (Kugel in Holon, Israel) use Moodle for Blended Learning. While we are at the showing and sharing stage, with one of my colleagues I hope to create a learning unit which we will use with our pupils (two different courses - same level), and take it beyond, getting some collaboration among pupils from both courses. It may not happen with the first unit we create, but that is a goal for the following one. The main condition to make this work is teacher determination to see it through.

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Finding the time for teacher collaborating is challenging.
Sometimes we do collaborative work at luch, late in the night... when we can!
The web tools are very important to do this kind of work, because it's easier to work with teachers from other countries.

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It's extremely important to find a common school hour for teachers being together collaborating as a department group. It happens in my school but unfortunatelly this time is being spent to read laws and burocratic work...It's very useful to work with teachers from different subjects and I'm implementing small attempts as a teacher librarian. That's one of my responsibilities in this job. Small steps are being taken to improve the school environment in what concerns collaboration

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Time is one of the key words for collaboration to happen. We often see teachers working together in lunch time, between classes, but the results don’t have a great impact in teachers’ practice or in the classroom. So we must have the conditions and an open mind to do it.

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Yes we  agree that finding time within the school day for teacher collaboration is challenging. But we also agree that after seeing the benefits of that kind of work it can be easier to find it.

With a restricted number of colleagues our  experiences of this are positive, sometimes we meet in person, sometimes we meet on line, those are our solutions to overcome this challenge.

Teachers feel overwhelmed with workpaper, bureaucracy  and meetings that are not well conducted and most of the subjects are not helpful to students progress.That an issue to move beyond.   But we agree that working with teachers from different disciplines can be very useful, and in the past we had good experiences of this? One of  conditions needed  for this to work is an open mind.

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I agree that finding time within the school dayfor teachers collaboration is challenging.  We have meeting every Monday morning with teachers from different disciplines for better collaboration. We discuss about different questions and it´s very useful

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Teachers' collaboration is very important for effective teaching, nevertheless very little time in our working hours is dedicated to collaboration. I think it is important to plan a different school system for starting a new perspective of teaching.

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The way I see it, if teachers really want to collaborate, they can find he time. I think that the lack of time is often just an excuse.
I have collaborated with my colleagues who teach completely different subjects, however, I find this type of collaboration really enriching both for teachers and students. We have worked on international and local projects, organised school events and even taught lessons together.

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Sono d'accordo che trovare il tempo entro il giorno di scuola per la collaborazione insegnante è difficile.
Non ero in grado di superare questa sfida! Collaboro solo occasionalmente con altri insegnanti.
Credo che il principale potrebbe svolgere un ruolo importante per creare le condizioni necessarie per la collaborazione degli insegnanti,
per esempio una parte delle ore di lavoro di un insegnante potrebbe essere dedicato per la formazione e le opportunità di collaborazione all'interno della scuola.