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Janesa felt that collaboration was working together to share information. Her experience with collaboration at our school has been a good one. When creating an environment conducive for effective collaboration, all individuals must be willing to work toward the same goal. She admits that she can be intimidated by the "team" that attends these meeting and tries hard to be open minded and accepting of others ideas.

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Ashley is excited about her collaborative opportunities. She has had a lot of experience working collaboratively in college and is grateful for collaboration in education. Ashley benefits from collaboration with veteran teachers and new teachers as well. She is able to share her ideas and discover tried and true methods of best teaching practices.

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Lori defines collaboration as "working together toward a common goal" She is very comfortable and enjoys a collaborative environment in her classroom and learning community. When we collaborate we benefit from hearing other ideas and bouncing our idea off of other people. It can be a challenge when groups don't have  leadership, or too much leadership. She also says that not being properly prepared is a huge challenge to overcome when talking about collaboration.

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Janesa is a strong supporter of co-teaching. From a parent perspective it gives her child more access to regular education opportunities and helps children to be taught according to their own learning styles and abilities. Her experiences with co-teaching are more observational than hands on, but she feels very happy with what she has seen and believes in it's effectiveness.

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Ashley felt that co-teaching would be something she would love to try. She felt that while she may have some anxiety about working so cloasely with another teacher, it could provide for good education practices. The teacher involved need to have mutual respect and be flexible. Common planning time is essential. Strong interpersonal skills are also important.

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Lori is currently co-teaching in her classroom. She really wishes that she could do it more often, but scheduling conflicts do not allow as much as she would like. Learning to be flexible and having respect for one another key. The benefits are that the burden of multiple and complex lesson plans is shared. She did not learn about co-teaching in college but took many professional developments that ensured that she was prepared.

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This area was somewhat confusing for Lori. In short, Lori felt that lack of trust and confidence in herself might prevent her from having a positive consultation experience.

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Ashley immediately thought of clarification and that consultation can help with clarifying unclear ideas. She has had several consultations with professionals. She stated that the encounters were a success because she was open minded and willing to listen and receive the information given.

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Jansea's definition of consultation includes the idea that information is shared, evaluated, and a decision is made based on the information.

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All three individual agreed with the following ideas or concepts:

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All three individual agreed with the following ideas or concepts:

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~ Collaboration means working together for a common goal. This was very similar to our reading. I believe that this is an example of how the idea of collaboration is becoming more prevalent in the work place.
~ Co-Teaching is good teaching practice. All professionals felt that despite and reservations they may have about actually teaching it.The benefits for student learning are tremendous.
~ Consultations involve preparedness. Being confident and prepared lead to a good consultation experience.