The Philosophy of Sharing
In any practice, efficiency is defined not by how well individuals are able to generate their own successful ideas, but by how well everyone involved in the practice is able to utilize each other's successful outcomes. A lack of collaboration makes for a very slow-changing, unevenly developed field, and this is exactly the case for the practice of education. So the question becomes why, then, do teachers not collaborate more? Here are some things we should be thinking about when it comes to sharing what we create for teaching. Helping others learn as we learn If you have a problem, share it. If you solve a problem, share it. We know that education does not adapt quickly, and our students aren’t going to wait. In order to work effective change into our practice, we need a quicker way to recognize that more people outside of our district are experiencing the same problems, and an organized way of understanding what others have done to try and solve them. The greater the q...
