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In my school, we usually collaborate with teachers in our own subjects, in other subjects and with other facilities such as the library or the special needs education department. Collaborating is the most useful way to teach and learn . Time is sometimes the enemy, because teachers don't always have the possibility to meet and work together, but as Professor Butler said, we can use digital 

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the crucial importance of a safe environment that encourages risk-taking. Being able to collaborate allow us to get critical feedback from our peers in a trusted environment, in the same

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Trans-Disciplinary Approach The complex needs of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) usually requires the expertise and knowledge of different professionals. Unfortunately, the reality of providing services across multiple disciplines sometimes means that the child receives fragmented services.

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when teachers are not open minded to collaborate, they never can show the students this case of working

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Collaborative work is fundamental if we want to shape our students for the future. I agree that there are tons of benefits to work like this, peer learning, as we learn with each other, feedback is really important to assess and to improve learning activities

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Collaborative work among teachers is crucial for enhancing collaborative skills of the students as the teachers are role models who inspire the youth.

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Collaborative work among teachers is crucial for enhancing collaborative skills of the students as the teachers are role models who inspire the youth.

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Collaborative work among teachers is very useful and it is a way of adopting strategies and improving our work as teachers. In my school I work collaboratively with teachers from my area and from different areas. I have even developed some collaborative project based learning situations that ended in very interesting projects.
It is also very helpful for students because this way they can improve their knowledge on a specific topic and develop 21st century skills as well.

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I agree with the benefits and challenges highlighted by Professor Butler. Teachers weren't used to collaborate with each other. However, I think things are changing or at least some of us are trying to make a change. And I believe it's just a matter of time; if some of us succeed in influencing the others, there will be more and more people collaborating. Teachers feel they need to work together but sometimes they really don't have time. Some of them have time but they aren't used to do it and don't know how. In my school we are 5 English teachers and we are making an effort to collaborate and to change practices and methodologies.

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In my kindergarten some of colleagues are always ready to collaborate, to learn from each others but some of them are not interested at all. Our group is always ready to collaborate in two ways : teacher with teacher and students with students.

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In my school, collaboration between teachers, is not very frequent, we have the schedule often busy with many tasks which does not allow us to collaborate, although some of us make an effort, for the collaboration to happen. This collaboration is done within the disciplinary group, or with similar groups. I sometimes collaborate with colleagues in geography. Although real collaboration does not exist.

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In my school I collaborate with some teachers of my discipline and of other disciplines but not in the same way we have seen. I don't think we really collaborate because we work too much individually and then we share some things. We prepare the final assessments together but we don't prepare or discuss lesson plans because there are some teachers who don't want to. So, it's difficult! But we're trying and I hope we will be able to really collaborate soon.

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Prof. Butler suggetions are really agreeable, but in my school I unfortunately can't experience true cooperation among teachers.

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In school I'm a teacher trainer and I can say that I learn more than I teach. The intersting discussions that we have in our sessions are so rich that the more we discuss the more we all grow.

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I had  different experiences of eTwinning project  that they gave me great opportunities. Unfortunately it is difficult to convince my colleagues to change.

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I had four experiences of Erasmus project made with foreign partners that gave me great opportunities to grow up professionally, I really enjoyed working and exchanging point of  view with foreign colleagues. It was really satisfying projecting, assessing each other works. On the other hand it is not so easy collaborate with teachers of my school, many strictly linked to their teaching methods and worried only about student's results at examinations.

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From several years  I embarked on the eTwinning activities. Fully I agree with as reported by  Butler. Work with European colleagues allowed me to grow and improve professionally. Working with colleagues from other schools involves continuous get in discussion, open to other experiences, integrate and enrich their experiential baggage. Within my school collaboration is very spread because we have connecting moments in planning of activities

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I think that prof. Butler suggestions are really important for our professional development and work stategies.

In my school i collaborate with my collegues in order to manage the classroom, to decide how can we improve education and knowledge. We share ideas about project and realize them.

I think that my colleaborations in Etwinning give me lots of ideas and lots of energy for my work.

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To my practices I would add the collaborative work in more moments, the proposal of activities to be carried out with the families, the use of grids with various items to evaluate.
It is common to work together with other teachers, whether in the classroom or at times of planning and organizing work. There are also activities common to all classes, in which each contributes one part to the whole.

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I agree with professor Butler. It's very important to create an authentic learning environment to design together. The real challenge is to find time to explore digital tools.

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I do agree with Professor Butler, so, I pratice collaborative work with colleagues that make courses with me in the passed and now in the Phd course.
In my school, and almost in all primary schools that I know, collaboration'work is a difficult practice. I think we cooperate but only in a few aspects, usually about the contents we are teaching, to do a similar evaluation.
As I already said in other coments, collaboration is not always a concept that is greeted with open arms among primary teachers. Educators who have had success (in exams) working in isolation may view this process as an invasion of their pedagogy and a waste of time. The key to strong collaboration is recognizing that a student shouldn’t be the responsibility of only one teacher, but of all teachers. But to spread the idea... it's a long and not easy way to go through.

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In my school collaboration between teachers is very common. We have in our marked schedules hours to carry through the colaborative work and to develop some projects..That is very important for our formation while teatchers.
We argue curricular contents, define pedagogical boardings and plan the development of activities.

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I agree that collaboration is very important and useful. Moreover it helps create a very positive atmosphere at work. Unfortunately in my school it's quite difficult to collaborate with other teachers because most of them have a quite traditional view of teaching and are mostly focussed on the curriculum. But there are some exceptions. I've started to collaborate with the Science Teacher and since we are planning to carry out a Clil project on volcanoes I've decided to focus my lesson plan (activity module 3 and 4) on volcanoes.
I've never tried etwinning but after this MOOC I'll try.

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In my school collaboration between teachers is quite difficult because people are more concentrated on the curriculum to experience new approaches to teaching. I'm currently trying to show my colleagues the advantages of collaboration between students and as a second step I will work on collaboration between teachers.

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I do agree with Professor Butler. I think that when teachers collaborate,we achieve some benefits and we improve our work. I do have experiences of collaboration with teachers in my own subject group, not only from my school but also from others. In the last year and in this one, I'm working with teachers from 2 classes, in my school. Teachers from all subjects are working with tablets, with their students, and we are doing collaborative work, not only between teachers, but also between students and teachers.

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I agree with professor Deirdre Butler. It's very important to create an authentic learning environment and to collaborate to design a task together because we build an effective community of practice among teachers and students. The real challenge is to find time to explore digital tools but it is also an opportunity to build in collaboration and share practices across nations.

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I fully agree with Professor Butler. In my school, the culture of collaborative work is sown a lot, and in my disciplinary group I work very collaboratively. We plan and prepare classes together, we share the materials with each other, we discuss the work done, we exchange ideas and suggestions.

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I agree with Professor Butler about the crucial importance of a safe environment that encourages risk-taking. Being able to collaborate allow us to get critical feedback from our peers in a trusted environment, in the same school/country/world. Collaborating is really challenging one another – challenge our beliefs, our assumptions.  And I also think all this process is going to be present for our students too.

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I completely agree with Professor Butler. In my school, there is a biweekly period of 1h for collaborative work among teachers, but informally teachers always collaborate more than this time

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I completely agree with prof. Butlerr. I work in a kindergarten and we collaborate a lot with my colleagues. It is easier for us as we are teachers of the same subject. We actually collaborate better and exchange more materials with the colleagues that teach the same age group.

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I agree with Prof Butler on the benefits of teacher collaboration.
Collaboration between teachers has been increasing, however, the lack of time and often the lack of knowledge of tools that would facilitate collaboration are the major obstacle.

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Learning from each other is fundamental, as Professor Butler says, particularly in the area of education. In my disciplinary group we seek to work collaboratively, whenever is possible, by sharing good practice and teaching lessons where teachers feel more comfortable with contents. Students appreciate the exchange of experiences among the teachers in my group.

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I think that collaboration between teachers is very important because it creates a positive  feedback that enriches everyone's work and promotes the attainment of the set goals. The technology helps a lot because it offers lots of opportunities to share experiences at the local level and also among people who live in places far from each other. Very often, in my school, I cooperate with colleagues  in interdisciplinary curricular and extracurricular projects. Furthermore I have worked in eTwinning projects and I am working in an Erasmus + one. I can assert that the support of digital tools is important to fostering the fruitful exchange of experiences which otherwise, for a variety of problems, you can not do.

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I strongly agree with the benefits and the challenges highlighted by Professor Butler. In my point of view, the most important aspect of teacher collaboration is sharing different points of view and different experiences. Also, our students get used to collaboration since they understand that heir teachers also do this at their work. I had the chance to collaborate with many good colleagues, not only in my own subject group but also from similar or even completely different subjects or age groups. We have used not only physical communication but also communication with e-mails, skype and Google Hangouts

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I agree with Professor Butler. In my school, we usually collaborate with teachers in our own subjects, in other subjects and with other facilities such as the library or the special needs education department. Collaborating is the most useful way to teach and learn . Time is sometimes the enemy, because teachers don't always have the possibility to meet and work together, but as Professor Butler said, we can use digital technologies to work together outside the school. These technologies can be as simple as the email, google drive, facebook or other digital platforms to communicate and share information. These tools facilitate the teachers' collaboration. If we have the will to do it effectively, we will always be able to find a way to do it.

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I agree with Professor Butler. I find collaboration leads to enthusiasm, more motivating activities for the students and is inspiring. Feedback from other teachers is so useful and a valuable learning experience.
At times a challenge I find for collaboration is personalities which are more dominant and may take over. It's necessary to work together for the bigger picture.

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​"So,(...) it means that you can design really deep meaningful, authentic learning environments that move beyond the classroom." and "your students see you, not only working in isolation, but actually working with teachers in a department in school, across the school, across nations, across boundaries…" I couldn't agree more, and in my schools some collaborative work across departments it's happening. Two years ago a group of different teachers decided to create a Beyond Learning classroom, based in multidiciplinary projects and collaboration between teachers from different subjects, local organisations, and teachers from other countries. It gave us the know how to implement different collaboration work between peers and now we are envolving students also. We feel a great diference among teachers, there's a better collaboration environment and students are starting to benefit from this way of work.

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I totally agree with the idea that teacher collaboration has lots of benefits. Learning with and from each other is paramount. Thus peer-to-peer learning with a critical feedback is great. And we can learn from the teachers in our school, but also from teachers all around the world thanks to digital platforms, and this is fantastic.

From last year, I have been working on a project with several colleagues in Europe. Some of them work in the European Schools in Brussels and they have told me that one of the best advantages of teaching there is the international enviroment among the teachers. They come from many countries, so teachers can learn not only other languages but also other customs and news from all over the world. This "phisical" enviroment can be the same in the European Schoolnet Academy but in a "digital" enviroment. So, I think that ditital platforms can help us, teachers, very much, and not only in the research of materials and resources for our daily lessons, but also for sharing our experiences and feelings with other colleagues that can understand much better than other people who are phisically closer to us.

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I agree, I am of the same opinion as Professor Butler. Knowledge / knowledge is not a box, it is another world, where we learn from everyone and evolve together. We should work as a group to strengthen and strengthen our pedagogy, serve as an example for our students, and learn as well.
The teaching-learning process is composed of success and failure, overcoming and correcting, knowing how to recognize what is wrong, overcoming the barriers / obstacles together more productive, enriching and easier.
In our grouping of schools we are together to plan and create lessons, share experiences and knowledge every day. It has been rich and a huge adventure, very enjoyable and productive.

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Obviously, I agree with benefits and challenges mentioned by Professor Butler. Sharing experience, methodology etc is crucial to make progres. Fortunatelly for us there are digital tool allowing us to do that much more effectively than in the past. Of course there is one disadvatage  - time consuming proces. But from the other point of view we can manage our time better and devote late hours of the day to our professional progres.

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A perfect opportunity would be to have a room designed for the cooperation and available at fixed hours. At the same time, teacher should have in their timetable the opportunity to meet their collegues apart from the usual afternoon meetings held 2-3 times per year. This happens in foreign countries, but not in Italy. The idea to share ideas and cooperate using Skype or videoconference is useful when thinking about collaboration with teachers coming from foreign countries or from different tows in our country. I support this idea

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I find myself in a big professional transition, having just started to teach in Italy after training and working for many years in the UK. One aspect I miss from my British experience is exactly the opportunities to collaborate with colleagues on a daily basis. My current school is great from many points of view but I don't see collaboration being encouraged. Prof. Butler's words inspire me to seek collaboration with colleagues beyond what the school asks or expects me to do.

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Here in PR we are experiencing a new program called MECPA where we review the students results from the former year and results from standardized tests and diagnostics to stablish the skills which we have to reinforce and teachers meet to stablish plans to lead students into satisfying those areas so they can achieved the goals that are design for them, so teachers collaboration and integration Is pivotal in the process.

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Collaboration among teacher is fundamental and I strongly agree with Professor Butler. If it isn't possible to collaborate within our school, at least we can find ways to collaborate with teacher across Europe. To find ways to exchange ideas , strategies, material is really worth both for us and for our students.

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I think that collaboration among collegues is very important. I collaborate with the teachers of my department but also with teachers of other subjects. The collaboration is done in different ways: during our meetings in order to decide some strategies, some topics, types of assessments and so on. But the colalboration is also in order to arrange some events or activities. I'd like to emprove collaboration also with collegues of other countries. So I'm following some courses  about  eTwinning.

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It is rewarding working with collagues who can see your point of view, so I agree with te benefits andd challenges by prof. Butler.

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At the moment I'm planning the activities to do with my foreing partners of Erasmus+ for our next meeting, and as I learnt much from my German collegues in the way they led the group work both among teachers and students when we were guests in their school,  I will surely try to emulate their examples.
So I absolutely agree on the benefits of teacher collaboration.

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In my school is competitive culture : contests,winners,competitions are valued.This environment is not for collaboration.
Maybe one day will be better.

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I totally agree with Prof Butler in what collaboration between teachers is regarded.

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What Deirdre has to say is so true! She empathizes the benefits but she also highlights the challenges teachers have to face regarding teacher collaboration. Nowadays there is a whole world out of our classroom “stalking” our students and we just can’t you pretend it has nothing to do with us. However I take two of the challenges she points out -  the need of a supportive school culture and the fact that schools have to build in time for teacher collaboration in teachers’ schedules. If these two conditions are met, we’ll be more than half way to putting teachers working in a collaborative way.

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i agree with Professor Butler and try to seek the collaboration of my colleagues. at times I have asked my Maths counterparts to teach the numerical of science.

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I agree with the benefits and challenges highlighted by Professor Butler. Collaboration with other teachers improuve our quality and give us new experiences. Fortunatly I collaborate very much with spanish teachers and across themes relevant to the whole school, for example, in Erasmus + Project.

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I agree with Professor Bulter - collaboration with other teachers is very important for providing good quality teaching. In my school, there is a competitive culture (contests, winners, competitions are valued) - in this environment is not easy to collaborate with colleagues

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What professor Butler says it is true and useful but unfortunately it is not possible in some schools because there are colleagues that are not interested in collaborate ! I prefer working collaborating with colleagues because I like exchanging ideas in order to plan successful activities and learning opportunities for my students.  Sometimes I collaborate with other colleagues of other subjects and sometimes with my subject colleagues to plan school projects...but it is not easy!

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It is difficult to find time to collaborate with colleagues, but we owercome the obstacle by using file sharing that allow us to organize  work

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I'm agree with Professor Butler, it's very important to collaborate with the other teacher. Sometimes the problem is the time . too much to do and no more time...

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Being able to reflect and receive a differente look, a different perspective about the work you're doing is on of the most important benefits in my opinion. I usually say that I have twho different tecahers lounge: the one at my school, physical, and the other on one, in the Internet, where, most of the time, I collaborate with my colleagues. It's very useful.

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The benefits and challenges sound sensible. I collaborate with a colleague who teaches English conversation to my students and I teach English. We both use the same coursebook but cover different parts of each lesson. We keep each other informed of where we are so that the students do the same lesson with both of us.
I have collaborated with geography teachers in our school. Our students created a website in Czech and English with information they studied in two subjects: English and geography.
I have collaborated with students in England. Together with my students they created a calendar.
Collaboration must be efficient and bring products. Otherwise it is a waste of time.

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Teacher collaboration is the key to the 21st century school.

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I completely agree with Professor Butler's opinion about the importance of COLLABORATION among teachers.
I've been collaborating with Elisabetta Marigo, one of my colleagues for five years. COLLABORATION is basically a way of sharing ideas, projects, strengths and weaknesses. It helps us improve our didactic strategies.

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I agree with Professor Butler we have to collaborate

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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 benefits and challenges highlighted by Dr. Deirdre Butler.

So far we have never worked like this, we are confident that from now on things will be different, we do not expect them to change from one day to the next, but we hope that we can “wake up”  other colleagues. We also have never had the opportunity to work on a theme common to all classes, it must be fantastic.

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I agree with challenges and benefits mentioned by Professor Butler. nowadays it is crucial to collaborate with teachers (at least with teachers from our school) and even better outside teachers also. I usually discuss and collaborate with my coleagues.

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I totally agree with the benefits and challenges highlighted by Professor Butler. I have not much experience on teacher collaboration so I have not the perception of other benefits or challenges in addition to those. With regard to opportunities I have been able to take advantage of in my own context to collaborate with teachers both in and outside of school, I’m working on it, learning methodologies and strategies to implement that in my practice.

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I agree entirely with Professor's Butler highlighted benefits and challenges. In eTwinning projects I have experienced the real meaning and enjoy of collaboration

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Benfits:
Working in teams spreads responsibility, encourages creativity, deepens friendships, and builds community among teachers. Teachers complement one another. They share insights, propose new approaches, and challenge assumptions. They learn new perspectives and insights, techniques and values from watching one another. Students enter into conversations between them as they debate, disagree with premises or conclusions, raise new questions, and point out consequences.
Challenges:
Team teaching is not always successful. Some teachers are rigid personality types or may be wedded to a single method. Some simply dislike the other teachers on the team. Some do not want to risk humiliation and discouragement at possible failures. Some fear they will be expected to do more work for the same salary. Others are unwilling to share the spotlight or their pet ideas or to lose total control.
Team teaching makes more demands on time and energy. Members must arrange mutually agreeable times for planning and evaluation. Discussions can be draining and group decisions take longer. Rethinking the courses to accommodate the team-teaching method is often inconvenient.

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I completely agree that it's very precious and really useful to collaborate with other teachers.
It's important to develop a collaborative school culture between teachers, students and wider comunity. Unfortunately not all teachers believe that collaboration is so useful; it begins with opening minds, sharing thoughts, ideas, materials and also learning from each other.

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Teachers collaboration contribute to a better school

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Teachers collaboration  is very important to better teaching and learning.

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Yes, it is! Collaborating with each other is a positive feedback that encourage us to keep going in spite of the many difficulties!

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Benefits and challenges of teacher collaboration are many.MOOC it is an example.

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At my school, I have been working collaboratively with my classmates for some years, through the planning of activities for students, the preparation of evaluation tools, and what I consider most important, through reflection and evaluation of strategies Implemented in the learning process. There are, however, some time-related difficulties, as Professor Butler points out, that over time we have been learning to overcome through the use of google drive. What I find most important in this way of working is to share and at the same time continue to learn new strategies, new ideas and listen to other ways of thinking.

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Professor Butler clearly outlines the most relevant aspects of collaboration offering insights on how to enhance it.  The main issue is to build an effective community of practice across nations and she takes this MOOC as an example. The etwinning community is the best example of this; when I started about ten years ago my community  was not far beyond my school but now is the whole European network of teachers. I think my professional development has greatly benefited and is still doing so thanks to the etwinning community.

Professor Butler’s tip about a common task across departments is very challenging and we are going to try it in my school.

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I agree with Professor Butler on the benefits and challenges of teacher collaboration. While watching the video, it has just occured to my mind that I should seek opportunities to establish collaboration with my colleagues out of my school. As for the challenge referring to finding time for collaboration, I use digital tools especially clouding tools like Dropbox and Google Drive to perform material transfer within ourselves.Unfortunately, my school is far away from a supportive culture.

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I often collaborate with my colleagues at school when developing a project or being member of specialist in school clubs and I find it interesting and challenging at the same time.

On the other hand as an addicted eTwinner I often collaborate with teachers from abroad when developing projects or participating in Learning Events and carrying out several tasks. I have to say that I learned a lot of things both on teaching methods and web tools.

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We all have to gain from collaborative work among teachers, especially our students, I agree with Prof Butler.
In last years this practice of collaborative work has been developed among teachers, however the time has been the major obstacle to these practices.
These practices have been used to prepare assessment sheets, study visits and not so much learning strategies and we have to evolve more in this sense, because it will be very good to discuss methods of learning and and share the experience of using the technology.

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I absolutly agree that it’s very important to collaborate with other teachers from your own school or another. In Physical Education sometimes we work in the same facilities so, if we want, we can do collaborative work. In my school I have one collegue with whom I can discuss and plan collaboration, and share new ideas to develop.

In the last years I also have collaborated with teachers from other subjects than mine in order to make projects or prepare ativities for the students.

Learning from one another is challenging and enriching, however it is not easy because of the lack of time available to plan lessons together.

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I agree with Professor Butler about benefits if the teachers collaborate. We can have the opportunuty to learn from the others and give a good feedback for their work. I teach with a various group of colleagues using a new methodological approach, the flipped classroom, and for this reason we have to work and collaborate to decide projects and activities that we are going to do with our students. the time and the real occasion to meet each other are few, but with digital tools ( the group of facebook and whatsapp) we are able to discuss and take decisions. I've never partecipated in european projects but I enroll to Moocs to have the chance to improve my collaborative skills, my fluency in English and learn more and more by the others' experiences of teaching.

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I  agree with Dr. Butler when she says time is an importasnt factor to collaborative teaching. Finding time to sit down and talk about what one could do, is not that easy, many meetings are spent in solving day to day situations.  Yes, I collaborate with different proyects inside school, with very diverse teachers.  Fortunately, my school provides us with good digital support. I will try to figure out a way to be more collaborative  with teachers aoutside my school.

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I collaborate with teachers across themes relevant to the whole school.

"Almost, almost in winter, autumn arrives ...
Collaborative work of the 3rd, A, B, C and E classes and the 4th year A, B and D in the school Gomes Eanes  Azurara - Mangualde"

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Very inspiring video. I found there are a lot of ideas for reflection.

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I am strongly convinced that when teachers are able to collaborate with one another, to get feedback from one another, and then maybe to the next stage, to design a task together., It is  fruitful to everyone;It qualifies our work because we enrich ourselves. However I can work collaboratively more and with no difficult with  teacher in France, Spain – anywhere around the world – and  have  meaningful, authentic learning tasks which motivate our students to  work together  because  students are involved in  really deep meaningful, authentic learning environments that move beyond the classroom. The Challenge is that more work is required to us and also it takes more time to carry out some activities in the class.Moreover, the school organization does not help at all. At least in my school our Headmaster does not care about letting teachers meet and collaborate. I hate the kind of formal meetings where we speak about nothing meaningful but I can do very little on my own to change the culture and the organization of my school. In spite of this I keep on trying to innovate my lessons . What I regret is the fact that not all my students  appreciate and understand the value of what I propose them; the reason is that they think  my methodology is an odd one as none of their teachers applies it. I would like to collaborate with my colleagues but my efforts ( I set up Google education nad invited some of them on other platforms like Edmodo)  has produced little change  among  very few collagues

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I think Dr Butler is wright when talking about challenges of collaboration between teachers: I would not change any single word of her speech. However, in Italy the majority of teachers are over 45 and digital literracy is not so common in our schools. Only very recently the education policy has introduced digital skills in the compulsory professional development of teachers. I'm reading now Cristina's comment and there is in a certain way the confirmation of of my point of view: collaboration is difficult, because many teachers don't want change their of working.

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As always Professor Butler is very assertive in her point of view. I agree entirely with her observations and suggestions. The main challenge is the time factor. How to manage to keep teaching classes and doing all the extracurricular activities we have and still find the time to engage with other collegues (from our school, or elsewhere) to find and develop collaborative projects? Being single, I find it a bit easier to get this accomplished, but I'm sensible to the argument of married collegues, with children, that have a lot other problems to manage in their life. I think that the answer might be in the need to change our understanding of work meetings. It would, probably, prove more efficient if we changed the way we engage one another while working together. It would be less time consuming if we changed our meetings to a less formal event, and engaged professionally in the videoconference method. Also the online platforms already in existence, when fully embraced, would be very useful to prevent wasting too much time. That would mean a different strategy inside the schools and the departments.

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I do agree with Professor Butler about benefits and challenges of teacher collaboration. Surely, a way to solve the alck of time and the fact that timetables are not alligned with other teachers is to use digital tools. i work on cross-curricular projects because etwinning or Erasmus pojects our school is involved in pushes me and other colleagues to do that. Personally, when I see that sometimes collaboration is difficult, I focus on etwinning projects and there, opening outside the school, alwasy helps me to create opportunities for me and my students to practice collaborative, international, cross-curricular activities

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Collaborating with other teachers in etwinning I learnt a lot both of new tools and new methods. I'm new in my school and it is not very easy to collaborate as everyone is always busy. Nevertheless we are able to collaborate with subject group teachers and we share ideas and materials, we also share point of views on how to teach to children with difficulties and/or special needs. i've started to collaborate with some teachers of my classes within etwinning projects especially with the teachers of art (for the logo) and of History and Geography. I hope this is a start!

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I totally with Professor Butler, but it's not easy to change. In many schools teachers are not used to work with other teachers and the first steps are difficult to give.
Fortunately my scholl colleague (and friend) brought me to this new world of collaborative work.
This kind of work has been very important to me personally and professionally. My students also benefit from this kind of work, because  we pratice collaborative work in the classroom, with colleagues of school and colleagues from other schools.

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I agree with what Professor Butler said. As for me, thanks to eTwinning, I have collaborated with lots of teachers from different countries. Collaborating with colleagues from my school is sometimes a bit difficult as many of them are not used to collaborating. However, some teachers are interested and we have worked together on some projects using cross-curricular links, we organised school events etc.

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Yes, of course we agree with the benefits and challenges highlighted by Professor Butler. Based on our experiences we can see that the challenges are big. One enormous is finding time, as Professor Butler says. In fact schools, by tradition,  don't provide time to that kind of work, most of  teachers are not used to work with others teachers. These situation is changing and now we can hear the word collaboration  all the time. Our headmaster, and some of us, are trying to apply the collaboration model and convince teachers of the benefits of collaboration between them and, as teachers are models to the students, they also are learning  to adapt that methodology. However we collaborate both in and outside of school. We  collaborate eventually with teachers in our own subject group having meets every fortnight to prepare classes and design assessment.

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Time for collaboration is an issue here in Ireland as the school day is busy. Leadership in schools has to recognise the value of teacher collaboration and give time for it. However, there is a need to build and develop the skills for collaboration. This needs to be addressed and supported also.

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Completely agree with Professor Butler. I'll try to apply greater collaboration with my colleagues.

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I completely agree with professor Butler. Knowledge is not like a individual garden. We must work as a team to show our students that we are together. The learning as well as the failure, the surpassing the obstcales done together are easier and richer. We are planning together and sharing this experience at our scholl these days. It has been overwellming and at the same time very interesting. Once we plan together, we are prepared to try out the activity together too.

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I have experienced some difficulties trying to collaborate with other teachers working in other countries, because our educative systems impose different objectives or criteria. Another difficulty are different school culture, with differences in avalable material and human resources, which make not easily transposable educative experiences

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It is important to find time for teaching collaborations.
Sharing experiences give us the awareness of our teaching. The digital tools that we can use, like Moodle, Padlet, skype, etc.  are a great support for collaborative teaching.

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I agree with the benefits and challenges highlighted by Professor Butler. But I think most teachers will add the fact that their own children and family needs them from the moment they leave school. If we get home and get connected to work, when do we live our personal lives? The example of this MOOC experience is in fact important, but we all needed to put aside our personal lives or sleeping time. Are our students more important than our family, someone else’s students???

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I agree with Professor Butler. I colaborate with my collegues and this collaboration permit us to improve our teaching every day. We work together to project experimental lesson and to plan class activities

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I agree with Professor Butler. I colaborate with my collegues and this collaboration permit us to improve our teaching every day. We work together to project experimental lesson and to plan class activities

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As a student teacher who teaches once a week in a secondary school, it is very hard for someone like me to collaborate with other teachers in the school let alone teachers from other countries. Very few schools have a designated time for all members of a department to meet and its difficult to implement. I do agree that teachers can use time outside of the school environment to collaborate, however everyone's personal life is different and some have other responsibilities which make collaboration difficult.

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I agree with Professor Butler about trying to collaboratively work outside school when it's not possible there.In our school at the beginning of the school year all departments of the different disciplines work together to develop work plans and topic modules to be used in class.We English teacher try to consider the technical topics our colleagues deal with which are involved in our lesson plans.So we do work collaboratively. In certain cases in class council we choose a topic which is linked to almost all subjects studied and we observe it from the different points of view.I 've never worked with groups of students of different age or other classes.