In their book Collaborating for English Learners: A Foundational Guide to Integrated Practices (2019), Honigsfeld and Dove share what they think are characteristics of collaboration in culturally and linguistically diverse school contexts. They call these the “4Cs of Collaboration”:
Conversations that address:
- Students' needs, lives, work
- Curriculum & instruction
- Teachers’ own struggles & successes
- What matters to us, the teachers
- Lesson planning, delivery, and unit design
- Use of supplementary resources
- Adapted content & modified instruction
- Assessment
- Learning objectives (content and language)
- Unit goals & curriculum maps
- Supplementary materials & resources
- Adapted text &materials
- ELLs' background knowledge & prior learning
- Peer coaching
- Planning instruction collaboratively or in the context of co-teaching
- Effective methods for aligning curriculum & objectives
- Using time more effectively
- Making the most of collaborative efforts
Here is one example of what collaborative planning can look like: