46 | COSERE Questions for group discussion: In the spirit of collegiality, we now invite you to reach out to your peers in education for a short discussion. • What are their experiences with individual lesson planning? • What potential benefits do they foresee with collaborative lesson planning? • Has constructivist or socio-cultural theory resonated particularly with their teaching philosophy? • Is this likely to remain true in the context of collaborative lesson planning? Steps in Collaborative Planning: A step-by-step guide to the collaborative planning process. The US’ National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has created a useful aid for educational professionals who are eager to put collaborative lesson planning into practice, “Collaborative Lesson Planning: The Key to Successful Lessons”. In this presentation, the following three tips are offered to get the process started: “1. Find a partner or partners (no more than 3-4) who teach the same grade level or subject area with whom to collaborate. 2. Determine what it is you want students to learn (not just what you want them to do) in the lesson you are going to design. 3. Select a task that is aligned with [your] goal(s).” (NCTM, 2024) With several interested educators selected, a shared grade level, subject area, etc. established, the objective of the collaborative lesson(s), and the task(s) that will be involved decided upon, it’s time to commit these ideas to paper. Here’s a simple template that could be followed, for example:
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