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Publication Date: 2022
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Collaboration in Education during a Pandemic
Beverly Puntin
New England College Journal of Applied Educational Research, v2 n1 p26-34 2022
Collaboration between and among teachers has become an important aspect of my professional life. In our professional learning communities (PLCs), we, as teachers, help each other to be more effective with our students. Our collective efficacy is more than any of us could attain alone. In our PLCs, people help me, and I help them. We all grow because of our willingness to collaborate for the sake of all our students. When the pandemic hit, we first thought we would have to work remotely for 3 weeks or so. As we all now know, that was not the case, and we struggled to gain the collaborative strength of our PLCs. We met less often, and, when we did meet, it was not the same. Without the level of support we used to give each other, my colleagues and I struggled. I believe we came to understand how special our collaborative efforts were, and I will not take for granted how special our collaborative efforts are for our students and for us, the teachers. In this article, I offer a sense of my experiences during the pandemic, and I share a few lessons I learned along the way. If, or maybe when, we face our next pandemic or other emergency, I am hopeful we will be better prepared to be as collaborative as possible.
Descriptors: Cooperation, COVID-19, Pandemics, Communities of Practice, Social Support Groups, Teachers, Teaching Experience
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