Ideas for collaborating with other schools

According to an African proverb, it says “It takes a village to raise a child”. It can easily be imagined that it would take a community in raising a school. Collaborating with other schools helps to mitigate a lot of issues and the students to accomplish a lot of issues. 

There are many easy as well as engaging ways through which these collaborations can be done.

Mastery Skype
A Mystery Skype unites two classes with each class building up a progression of 'taught' inquiries to help them keenly reason the area of the other school. (If the case is that your school blocks Skype, consider utilizing Google Hangouts efficiently). In this situation, kids get the chance to apply and utilise geological information, essential considering and the expertise of derivation. Students may deliberately ask the other school questions like: "Are you east or west of the Mississippi River?" or "Are you landlocked?" They proceed with this procedure until the point that they have inferred the correct area of the other school. When I was a child, I read about geological ideas and places in a course book, however, I never got the opportunity to apply that figuring out how to a true circumstance like students can do now by means of a Mystery Skype. I have been pushing teachers to think past geological based Mystery Skypes and have a go at applying this drawing in coordinated effort apparatus to their own matter.

Google Docs
Small GDI feel that most instructors see the incentive in having students in your own class team up on a Google Doc – however, the time has come to think bigger! The time has come to team up with another class from an alternate city, state or even nation. There are some calculated issues to work out with this kind of joint effort; however such hazard brings awesome reward. For instance, Dianne Shapp (@dshapp) had her fifth-grade students cooperatively compose a paper on sugar with a class from Illinois. They finished the undertaking by having a class wrangle about sugar using Skype.

The 100 Word Blog Challenge
This blog challenge is energising and at the same time very exciting since it gives the students a chance to expound on what intrigues them. As a teacher, it is a matter of concern about the possibility that some students are "phoney blogging" (constrained blogging because I allocated it) when they are given a prompt. This helps in mitigating the problem. Giving the children reason in their composition rouses hesitant and propelled students alike. Students have the option of making any 100 words; they need to go with this provokes.
Every week an insight is given, which can be a photo or a progression of individual words and the youngsters can utilise around 100 words to compose an inventive piece. This ought to be posted on a class blog and after that connected to the 100 Word Challenge blog. The connection usually is open from midnight on Wednesdays until midnight the next Tuesday." (taken straightforwardly from 100 Word Challenge Blog). The best part – kids from next to the globe remark on every other site.

Quad blogging
The word “quad blogging” implies that it contains four distinct and significant classes together with one class blogging and at the same time the other three comments. All the classes take turns being the key contributor. This acts as an authorising factor since the kids will have an authentic audience for their blogs. Students often remain fanatical about the analytics about whose blogs are getting more comments.

Get on the same page.
One of the most significant problems in connecting with other schools is to make sure that we are on the same page. Everyone needs to be conscious what is expected of them and become a valued part of a team. It becomes much more comfortable in building relationships with the tutors of other schools and figure out the next possible steps that can be taken to improve the quality of teaching and education that the students receive.

Start a blog
The teachers and students of a school have the option of sharing their thoughts and ideas through the blogs that will be written by them. Every student may also share the blogs outside the school with their teachers.

Create a personal learning community
There is another way of connecting with other schools. The teachers can create a personal learning community where they can chat and share their ideas with other teachers. Nowadays teachers feel isolated from their peers and building an individual community or learning community. This can be composed of the teachers in the school or from various parts of the world. It does not matter whether the teachers spend time sharing, interacting, or collaborating with others regarding the different educational projects.


Schedule weekly get-togethers
A problem is very acute and frequent among the teachers who are the shortage of time. They hardly get any time in a day to sit and interact. Collaboration with other schools can be executed by setting up meetings on a weekly basis so that the teachers can meet with each other and discuss the developments of the education system. They can also talk about the effects of brainstorming and be working in a team together.

Master Skypes
If you have not known about a Mystery Skype yet, try using it as an essential tool for collaboration with other schools. Mystery Skype unites two classes with each class building up a progression of 'instructed' inquiries to help them shrewdly reason the area of the other school. (If your school squares Skype, consider utilising Google Hangouts). In this situation, kids get the opportunity to apply and use geological learning, first thinking and the expertise of finding. Students may deliberately ask the other school questions like: "Are you east or west of the Mississippi River?" or "Are you landlocked?" They proceed with this procedure until the point when they have inferred the correct area of the other school. When I was a child, I read about geological ideas and places in a course reading, yet I never got the chance to apply that figuring out how to a certifiable circumstance like students can do now using a Mystery Skype. I have been pushing teachers to think past geological based Mystery Skypes and have a go at applying this connecting with the coordinated effort apparatus to their particular topic. Shouldn't something be said about secret characters, riddle missions (for those of us in California) puzzle verifiable characters, or even puzzle logical ideas?

YouTube Interaction
Did you think that YouTube was just for posting videos? It is an excellent medium to collaborate on projects.  Students are prepossessed with Australians – but we can’t always do collaborative projects with Australia due to time-zone constraints. So instead we participate in what I have come to call ‘YouTube Interactions,’ where we send videos back and forth between time-zone challenged classes. We hold debates and build stories together, but instead of blogs, we use YouTube to share our work. Again, the sky is the limit… big and use videos to bridge the time zone gap.

Vimeo can be used if YouTube is blocked in any case. Sometimes, Vimeo makes parents more comfortable in online video postings, and the parents can be given the option of picking a most preferred online platform. I always make sure to discuss the purpose of the project with parents at Back to School Night, I explain the use and safety involved in this type of project.

Don’t wait for others for the first move
On the off chance that you stick around for others to search you out, you might sit tight for quite a while, mainly if your school doesn't have a community-oriented environment. If one is interested in connecting with others of another school, he may be willing to make the first move.

Try co-teaching
Co-teaching can be another good idea for a collaboration with other schools and between teachers. One teacher is good, but two is always better. A teacher can help another one by working with his or her class. A trade-off that makes both of them experienced. They will work on the curriculum together and delivery that may enable both of them to know each other well, both professionally as well as personally.

Adopt a team mentality
Many schools don’t necessarily encourage teachers to work together, instead of sequestering each into classrooms. But that doesn’t mean, that’s the way things have to be. You can start building a more team-focused feeling at your school by encouraging collaboration, talking to other teachers, and holding meetings. You’re all working side by side to give the students an excellent education and no one can do it alone.

All the above ideas can be successfully carried into effect for active collaboration of a school with another. 

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