ipts9

Standard Nine| Collaborative Relationships

**Introduction to Islam** Collaboration is necessary to every career and in our daily lives. In schools, teachers who engage in collaborative relationships not only learn more about individual students and their needs, but also how to engage the entire class by implementing new ideas and strategies into their classroom. In my experience, I have found that working with others is necessary to my success as a teacher. Whether I am working with a supervisor, fellow colleagues, or discussing a student with his/her parent/guardian, each relationship provides necessary feedback for my development as a teacher in understanding the learners within my classroom.

My artifact for this standard is a lesson I helped create to co-teach a lesson on Islam for a sixth grade, world history classroom. In creating the lesson, we had to determine how best to present the information to the class and what aspects of the material to actually present to the students. We wanted to make the lesson informational, but also engaging, so we had students read a loud from a worksheet and help us create a timeline of the events leading to and immediately following the advent of the Islamic religion. Working together during the lesson, we were able to interject comments and ideas which would help the students better understand the material. This artifact represents this standard because it demonstrates the importance of collaborating in order to best provide the greatest possible learning experience for the students.

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