Collaboration Station

What can we gain through collaboration?

Not much. Just kidding.

What we gain from collaboration is knowledge, and depending on who (whom? I never know) we are collaborating with, this knowledge can be very great and helpful. The old saying that two heads are better than one pretty much sums up the general idea of what collaboration can accomplish. Two people motivating and pushing each other to succeed in whatever their endeavor are much more likely to come out winners than if it were just one. Many people putting their knowledge and expertise together to solve problems will solve that problem faster and in more ways than one, or few, working on the same problems.

Collaboration between educators can make teaching a much more enjoyable and simple task than one might think. I'm sure many people think that teaching will be a difficult (yet fulfilling) career decision and yes, in the old days of one room schoolhouses that may have been true, but with the amount of and ease of collaboration that goes on between educators today someone is usually not more than a phone call/text message/IM away. Most of us will most likely (and hopefully) land jobs in relatively large schools with many seasoned teachers that have seen everything. These people will be more than happy to help us noobs with whatever challenge we are facing that particular day, and I'm sure there will be many.