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My class is missing collaboration from other classes in my building. I my school has high esol and sped populations. They are usually cluster into separate groups apart from the gen ed and tag clusters. This is understandable to me, but I think we could grow as a school with collaboration of students across the different clusters. It would help our students to learn from other students not just teachers. I know in order to grow in the tech world we must teach the students a way to use their technology to help them advance in education and learning not just for social use.

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What is missing from my classroom is prior knowledge! My students come to me with little to know prior knowledge about the topics that we talk about in our curriculum. With this being missing it makes it difficult to connect with different classrooms about these things. Once we have gained the knowledge we could use that knowledge to communicate and discuss with others in different areas or classrooms.

My classroom is also missing diversity, the major of my students come from the same economic background, making it difficult to compare and contract family differences.

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I have a huge Spanish speaking population, out of 26 students, 22 speak Spanish at home. In my classroom, we are missing the ability to communicate to each other, and also for myself to communicate with my students' parents. I use ClassDojo to communicate with my parents most of the time because it translates the messages for me. Often, the parents also respond back in Spanish and I can easily translate it with the app. However, I do not feel that I am able to connect with them on a deeper level, because I am from a different background. I also think that because students are also very comfortable with themselves, they are not able to see a perspective from another culture so readily.

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My school is missing connections within the school and our cluster. I'm realizing after watching these videos that grade levels are pretty self-contained. Grade level teachers are wonderful about communicating the needs of their students and planning for these students - but there are no conversations vertically. What do students need to know or be able to do next year? What gaps are they seeing with students? How are our previous students achieving? Is there a way we have older teachers engage with our younger students? For example: have third graders be reading buddies with kindergartners?
We don't hear about what other schools in our cluster are doing. All of the elementary schools in our cluster face similar needs with their students. Are they doing different things that they find increase student achievement or help connect home and school?
It truly takes a village - and I feel that if we were able to connect with other grade levels and other schools we can help increase student achievement and improve the connection between home and school.

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I have a very diverse group of kiddos, and teach at a school with a pretty diverse population across many different aspects (religious beliefs, culture, family style etc.). They each bring their own ideas, traditions and cultures into our room every day. The biggest thing my classroom is missing is the ability to connect ideas beyond our classroom. During the video, I realized this when he was talking about the need to measure at solar noon - and lacking the geographical location to be able to do that. This is something I definitely struggle with as a teacher and have not year pushed myself to think beyond traditional methods to provide for my students. We have so many opportunities in science, math, reading and social studies for telecommunication but I have not yet explored those options. Additionally, I think my school and school district lacks the ability to act on these opportunities. My school district has a pretty strict internet policy in order to protect students and therefore, is pretty limiting in what I feel I am able to do. I would like to move to a place where telecollaboration is possible and used - starting within our district so district leaders see the benefit and need.

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I have a diverse group of students in my class this year. It's difficult to get first graders to open up about their families and cultures in general. Therefore, I decided that I needed to get to get families involved with sharing our their cultures. We lack the part of connections within the school. Teachers, parents, and students are all living in their own bubble and it's been difficult to form that bond between everyone linked to the school.
This year, the first graders were able to have access to Chromebooks but the first grade teachers did not know a way in integrating it with meaning. It was difficult to plan specifically for technology as well as our everyday tasks.
The school has the resources to be digitally progressive but their is a lack of training and comfort so teachers are using technology as fillers and games.
I am moving to a different school next year and working with second graders. Two of my future teammates are currently in the Masters program at Maryland to pursue their STEM degree so I cannot wait to collaborate and share ideas to prepare our students for next year.

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What’s missing from my classroom is my students being able to make the real world connections of our learning. I work at a Title 1 school so many of the students’ worlds don’t go too far beyond their communities. We go on a couple of field trips a year but it really doesn’t help students see the other parts of the world. I think that connecting with other classes through Twitter, or even VR field trips, could help my students feel like they’re able to connect to the material they’re learning while watching other students in their learning. I hope that some of these relationships could blossom into opportunities where our classes participate alongside each other (like the Oreo challenge in the video) and we’ll be able to provide our buddy class with experiences they might not have where they live. I definitely am missing the rich opportunities that connecting with classes across the globe will give to my students. Through this class I’m hoping to fix that for my class next year!

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My introduction classes are very diverse with a nice mix of students from various backgrounds, however, my advance and AP classes are not diverse at all. I have mostly females in those classes as well. I understand this is something I can not control, but would like to see more diversity in my upper level classes. Outside of my own classroom, there are not many teachers of color at my school and mostly females as well. Being a person of color, I represent a small fraction of the staff, which unfortunately does not reflect our student body.

Another thing that is missing from my classroom is collaborating with other schools and even other professionals. Since I teach an art class I like to invite artists into the school, but that usually only happens once a year. I would love to have real art based professionals come into the classroom so students have a better understanding of their job options once they leave high school.

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Jawann Whatley

My classroom is missing collaboration within the school and globally as well. I use web tools such as Flipgrid, Padlet, and Voice Thread, but I haven't been able to collaborate with other classrooms or around the world with them. This is one of my goals for next year. My classroom is pretty diverse and they come with a plethora of experiences about their perspective cultures. Within the classroom students collaborate often with math games, reading buddies, and Voice Thread. Students also peer review many of their writing assignments as a way to collaborate and improve their written projects. I would like to encourage my second grade team to use more technology in their classroom in order to foster this collaboration amongst our grade level. In science and social studies, students get to collaborate with other teachers through departmentalized instruction. Each class has rotated to receive instruction by a different second grade teacher this year. Students experienced different teaching styles and some collaborative work, but without the use of technology. I would definitely like to improve the use of technology across all subjects and connect students to a wider audience.

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My class sizes are small with students of diverse backgrounds except that I have a VERY limited number of female students.  Unfortunately, there still exists the stereotype that computer science is for males and as a result I have very few female students.  I need to try and find a way to promote our computer science department better/more and to encourage more females to register for our classes.  The one positive though, is that if a female student does register for a class, in general she will take four years of classes and stick with the program.

Also, while yes, I could do a better job with connecting to outside companies/organizations, another area I think is missing is collaboration within my own school.  I have been at my school for 6 years now and most teachers do not know/understand what we do in our department.  To better prepare students for college it would beneficial for our students to be able to combine certain math and science classes with a programming class since most college math and science majors require a bit of programming.  It would also be beneficial in my 3D Modeling and Animation course to be able to partner with the art department to bring some of the students’ works to “life”.

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After watching these videos I realize that my classroom is lacking quite a bit of things. Two main things that the video discussed that my classroom is also lacking is collaboration within our school/community and people/students around the world, as well as diversity.  My class is very diverse, however, many of my students because they're young, do not know much about their culture and background. We talk a lot about culture and traditions throughout the year, and many students can not tell the class many details about their culture that can set them apart from others in the room. After watching these videos, I think that it would be awesome to connect with schools around the world that can share different aspects about their cultures and traditions. It would even be fun to connect with classes with students from similar populations in order to make connections between each other. The other aspect I mentioned that my class was missing was collaboration. Within the classroom we collaborate on many activities, but when it comes to reaching out to others to have new ideas and such, we don't do that much. Next school year I really want to first work on having my students collaborating with others in our school. For example, have my students write stories and have the older grade peer edit their stories through google docs. Then, I want to extend this idea to have my students collaborate with students from other schools and states.

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After watching these videos, I was able to make identify things my classroom already has and things we are missing. I teach a very diverse group of students this year and have every year since I began teaching. Our school recognizes and celebrates the diverse community we have here at Wellwood, and one if our IB PYP units is all about culture and community. Within all our units we incorporate group or partner activities that involve collaboration amongst the students, as well as collaboration amongst teachers. These past 2 years especially, collaboration has been a very important factor in our school because of our IB candidacy. However, with my school, I think we are missing feedback and guidance. We have spent countless hours over the summer, before and after school, and on weekends, writing our units and coming up with activities that align with our state and IB standards, with little to no feedback. We reflect on our lessons daily and then reflect together when we finish our units, so we can go back and pretty much change everything. But guidance and support in the beginning stages would be very helpful for us so we can plan lessons and activities accordingly.

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Wow, after seeing and viewing the video, I am seeing more things missing from my classrooms and more missing throughout my building. In classrooms, teachers are missing the collaboration in a fun and entertaining way. They are jumping into lessons and lecturing and not giving the students the "hook" to gain their attention. Teachers are needing more meaning with the curriculum to relate to students on a personal level. We all know that we don't complete tasks or do anything without having a relatable purpose to it. Even if the telecollaboration has nothing to do with our daily lives, it still catches our attention because it is a foreign topic and curiosity kicks in. Without a purpose and a motive, students are missing the drive to learn!

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After watching these videos, I know that my classroom is lacking some things that I cannot control and some things that I can control. Depending on the year, I may have a heavily diverse class or majority Burmese and White students. This year, my classroom is diverse and the kids are able to see the differences between themselves and others. I love to talk to the students and learn more about their culture and family dynamics. We can talk about different languages and different holidays that cultures celebrate. Another thing in my classroom that I cannot control is the amount of technology we have. I currently have a projector,  screen, and my device to use with the students. I have been in technology rich pre-kindergarten rooms that use SmartBoards and the students are so engaged and excited to use the board in class. Not having the luxury of that technology means I have to create engaging lessons by hand.
Something that I can help is collaboration with the other pre-k classroom. I have a hard time working with her classroom because she has a closed mindset to special education and the needs of my students. It is very important to include my students or align the class' work so they are all on the same page. My students also need better peer interaction with students without special needs that have the social skills they lack. I would love to have a meeting with the other teacher to explain the pros of inclusion and how to open her mind to new ideas.

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From watching these videos, I now realize that collaboration with other classes is missing in my classroom. Once a year we do a DIG day that involves the whole grade level to do art integration activities and work with other classes. However, that is only one day out of the whole school year. I think that collaborating with more classes within the grade level would allow more connections to be made and more engaging learning experiences to take place. I also think that collaborating with classes in other grade levels would also benefit my students and encourage relationships with older and younger students that my students would not consider having before. Eventually I think that collaborating with other schools and classrooms within the state, county, or globe would be wonderful to include in my classroom and school. I would want to start with collaborating with other classes and teachers within my school first and then work on communicating with classes outside of my school.

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These videos are thought provoking. I know that there are ways to further breakdown the walls of the classroom for my students which can engage them more with the required tasks they are to complete within a semester or year. Engaging in more collaboration throughout the building may be a way to start breaking down the walls for my students. Engaging with other classrooms within the building for additional feedback and review of student writing is a start which could conceivably be grown to include publishing for students outside of the school walls as well.
Bringing in authors is a practice that we encourage as well as bringing in people to interview for a variety of perspectives throughout the English curriculum, if we could establish relationships with people who are able to connect through Skype or other formats it would open up a whole new world of interconnection for our students. This has been a goal of mine for a while, and I am glad to see that there are ways to do this that can be accomplished with little to no cost other than time and reputation. Working within the crunch of the curriculum can be a challenge that will be faced in one way or another, the additional perspective and insight as well as collaboration is well worth the trade off.

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After watching and listening I feel that within my classroom there is certainly a lack of collaboration between multiple classrooms. As a high school math teacher, there is a lot of focus on getting the content taught so that students can reach CCR (college and career readiness). I think by finding ways to connect my classroom with others even just in our county (Harford) could help students realize there are more people out there than just our small school (less than 750 students). It can also help with a particular unit taught about statistics and when trying to demonstrate the different types of studies that can be conducted. Although my class size is 25-30, that doesn't always give a good overall picture for a statistical approach. If the curriculum had some flexibility and there wasn't a "time crunch" for every unit needed to be taught I'm sure I could work this into the lessons.

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Based on the videos, my classroom is missing collaboration between other classes either in my school or globally. The students in my classroom mostly have the same cultural background, but it would be really beneficial for them to learn other perspectives and about other real people around the world. The social studies curriculum has students compare cultures, so we could tie in the tele collaborative aspect by learning from another classroom somewhere in the world instead of just watching videos about it. I also liked the idea of the Journey North Project and realized that we don't do experimental based learning that has students reaching their own conclusions. The new science curriculum is moving towards that, but it is still in a very basic stage of independent student discovery.

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My tech ed classroom has a lot of diversity, a lot of room for creativity, and a lot of space for experimentation. What it doesn't have is a good range of test subjects. Students in my classroom design and create solutions to a variety of "problems" but the only ones who can test their solutions are other students who have built their own. That's not ideal for getting honest feedback. I would love to have a classroom in another school, another state (maybe even another country) that could test and evaluate the solutions developed by my students.

I would also love to add some direct connections to businesses and people who actually use the design process for their careers. They could help my students better understand what the process really is, and why it's so valuable.

Both of these are doable--I just need to stop being lazy and set them up.