• Job Responsibilities: Identify key job duties of the teacher and the paraprofessional.
• Personal Style: Examine and identify personality traits and effective communication methods.
• Collaboration: Recognize how teams with diverse personality strengths can effectively work together to facilitate a positive student learning environment.
• Unifying Philosophies: Identify strategies that mesh two or more educational philosophies into one effective instructional focus.

Rationale

Collaboration is the critical component for successful teaming in today’s society. In all aspects of the professional world, we see the importance of team work.

In the academic world, two or more differing ideas, meshed into one focus, provides a powerful tool in the development, implementation, and assessment of positive student achievement.

Working teams combine different points of view to expand a vision of what may or may not be effective. It stimulates elaboration, sparks discussions, focuses ideas, and socializes our academic and social environment.