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COLLEGIALITY
RESEARCH FINDING:
Students benefit academically when their teachers share ideas,
cooperate in activities, and assist one another's intellectual
growth.
COMMENT:
Although high student achievement is most likely in a school with
high faculty morale and a sense of shared responsibility, most
teachers are independent and believe that the responsibility of
running their classrooms is theirs alone. In some studies, as
many as 45 percent of the teachers report no contact with each
other during the workday; another 32 percent say they have infre-
quent contact.
As a result, these teachers fail to share experience and ideas or
to get support from their colleagues. Isolation may undermine
effective instruction.
Good instruction flourishes when teachers collaborate in devel-
oping goals that emphasize student achievement. Effective
schools have a climate of staff collegiality and use mutual
support as a means of improving pupil achievement. School lead-
ers in such schools set aside time for faculty interaction and
provide specific opportunities for teachers and administrators to
work together on such tasks as setting school policies, improving
instructional practice, selecting textbooks, and strengthening
discipline.
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