Teaching as a Profession:

Collaboration with Colleagues

Collaboration is a good way to deal with problems or to produce new methods and solutions for any situations and problems with other people by discussing and suggesting. Also, collaboration can be used for being better in any subject. I also had a collaboration experiences in high school with my peers. We were making collaboration to be better at our lessons and to produce solutions to learn how to deal with our lessons and their exams. We were discussing subjects of lesson which we could not learn well and we were suggesting how to deal with the subjects which we could not understand. For example, if one of us could not understand a math subject which the teacher talked about in class, we were suggesting him to learn it out of class. We were saying him to watch an online video about the subject. If the person could not again understand it, we were suggesting another method. We actually were not making collaboration only for finding solutions. We were sometimes making it only to produce a social environment in our class. As a result, the collaboration was working well. When we talk about the benefits which collaboration supplied us. I can say that we were getting better in our lessons and their exams. We were being more social and our collaboration skills were improving. If some of us do not know solutions his/her problems about lesson or any subject, we were sharing solutions as much as we know. Moreover, some of us did not know that he/she has a problem which can be solved. We were helping him/her to recognise it. We were relaxed in our conversations because we were not testing us in any subject so we were getting real solutions.

Collaboration can help better when people managing collaboration have necessary collaboration skills. When I talk about my collaboration skills, I can say that I have some strengths and weaknesses. For example, I can transfer my thoughts to my peers and I have self-confidence to show my ideas about subjects when we all come together. On the other hand, I get some harm in terms of accepting mistake ideas which are told by another person for me but the idea can be correct for the person who says it. In fact, I can do something to develop my collaborations skills. For instance, I can demonstrate respect for the opinions, expertise, and experience of others. I can address negativity with empathy. Moreover, I should not hoard my knowledge I can share my own expertise with others so they are in a better position to accomplish group goals.

            It is also important to transfer what is known about being a collaborator to the career. I will transfer what I know about being a collaborator to my teaching career by practicing. I will participate in collaborations, and then I will apply my information about being a collaborator in real. Moreover, I will begin to do it by inviting my peers to prepare a collaboration environment. I will use my collaboration skills to encourage other people in group so that they can transfer their ideas in any subject. As a result, we can start to take advantage of collaboration.