Collaboration as a tool to solve problems Sample Clauses

Collaboration as a tool to solve problems. According to the participants’ views, there are sometimes specific reasons when they need to use collaboration as a tool. These could be to solve a problem, for student benefit or for school improvement.

Collaboration as a tool to solve problems. Several teachers reported that they use collaboration as a tool to solve different problems, specifically student behaviour or the problems occurring among teachers. The finding is interesting because it indicates that teachers collaborate in their settings, whether it is obligatory or voluntary. In other words, they always have opportunities to work together and most importantly, in demanding circumstances, they need to initiate a collaboration with stakeholders of different ranks to solve a problem before it is inflated. Being able to solve problems productively should be the goal of any organization, according to Xxxx and Xxxxxxx (1999). They claimed that schools which managed to solve problems effectively had strong ‘‘integrative capital’’ (p. 515); the capital acts as glue that keeps schools together using many other capitals such as human, intellectual, social and social. Because schools are considered learning entities, Senge et al. (2000) and Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx, Xxxxx, Xxx and Xxxxxxx (2000) argued that by solving problems collectively, learning often takes place. Thus, Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx et al. (2000) identified two methods that encourage schools to adopt continuous learning: one is collaboration among teachers and another collaboration between teachers and school leaders. The researchers stated that the use of the above methods could increase a school’s capacity to solve problems in a constantly changing educational environment and simultaneously improve student achievement.