Improving IB Learning: The Role and Impact of Collaborative Planning

This essay examines collaborative planning among IB teachers, defining it as a process of collaboratively planning lessons, curriculum, units, and teaching techniques. It emphasizes the importance of reflecting on the IB program to improve student learning and fostering a clear understanding of learners' needs and the program itself. Regular meetings are crucial for modifying the curriculum and teaching standards for better results, with each teacher playing an equal role in developing linguistic abilities. Differentiation is key due to the diverse needs of students, and the success of collaborative planning is measured by student performance. Shared resources and ideas are vital for enhancing the teaching-learning process, although the process can be time-consuming and may face challenges such as unequal participation. The essay concludes that collaborative planning can be highly beneficial for IB teachers if these challenges are addressed effectively.

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COLLABORATIVE PLANNING

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Collaborative planning is refers to the process of planning lessons, curriculum, units and
teaching techniques collaboratively by IB teachers. It can be facilitated through collaboratively
reflecting upon the IB program in order to come up with decisions on how to improve learning of
the students (Guskey, 2014). It helps the teachers in forming a clear understanding of learning
needs of the learners and of the learning program itself. The process of this type of planning can
be established by conducting meetings regularly so that the teachers can identify how they can
modify their curriculum or standards of teaching for getting better results.
One of the most important elements of this process is that each and every teacher has to
play an equally important role in developing the linguistic abilities in the IB program. Each and
every student is different and thus the process of teaching needs to incorporate the facility of
differentiation thorough collaborative planning. The success of this process can be understood by
the performances of the students after the completion of one lesson of one unit. Shared resources
and ideas are the two important pillars of collaborative planning that has a role in improving the
whole teaching learning process (amersol.edu.pe, 2019).
On the other hand, it has been seen that individual teaching techniques cannot be
improved through this process of planning. Apart from that, this process is quite time consuming
that can be a practical problem while practicing this in real life scenario. The participation of all
teachers cannot always be equal due to many reasons that can a challenge in developing
collaborative planning. Moreover, it can be stated that this planning process can be highly
beneficial for IB teachers if the above mentioned challenges can be solved by taking needed
measures.

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Reference list
amersol.edu.pe, (2019), Collaborative Planning, Retrieved on: 9th Feb, 2019, From:
http://blog.amersol.edu.pe/ibreview/collaborative-planning/
Guskey, T. R. (2014). Planning professional learning. Educational Leadership, 71(8), 10.
Retrieved on: 9th Feb, 2019, From: http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?
article=1015&context=edp_facpub