Teacher collaboration is challenging but particularly valuable when implementing open-ended, inquiry-based, student-centered lessons. We’ve developed a protocol that is intended to help teachers collaborate to create and prepare for these tasks. The steps have been informed by the experiences of mathematicians, educators, and students.

To support teacher teams in planning for the implementation of high cognitive demand tasks.

Teaching teams have finite time together and collaboration requires some amount of divide and conquer. This protocol is designed to structure the time you have together whether you have just a few minutes or several hours. If you have less time, focus your energy on the first step(s) of the process. If you have more time, we suggest you use the accompanying handout. As you go, record the action steps that will need to take place after the meeting.

Research indicates that teaching teams are more successful when they take time to get to know each other's interests, strengths, and styles. See "Planning For Effective Co-Teaching" by Chriss Walther-Thomas, Mimi Bryant, and Sue Land for the importance of getting to know each other. Page 7 has a list of questions that teams could use to get to know each other; teams that are not co-teaching might need to adapt the questions to fit their team structure.

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