The purpose of this paper is to understand what goes on in a school system as well as a classroom: modifying curriculum, professional collaboration, progress monitoring, assessments and diversity. Modifying the curriculum plays a part with professional collaboration as well as educating and why they should modify their curriculum. Each of the five categories overlap and show what a school system should be in order to reach its full potential. Professional collaboration is the key if a teacher wants to get along with co-workers and to obtain work. Progress monitoring and assessments are two ways to see how a student is achieving their annual goals. Lastly, if a teacher says one thing wrong in a classroom and a child gets offended, …show more content…
Teachers work in their own classroom but will have to talk to their co-workers about different assignments or a child’s development. Not only is professional collaboration important between co-workers, but it is also important between teachers and parents. During the process of developing an Individualized Educational Program (IEP) for a child, the parents should be informed every step of the way. Collaboration is a huge part of this process. Parents need to give their consent in order for the child to be tested. After parental consent, the professional team may start evaluating. A student will be evaluated through many different tests by many different specialists. The specialists on an IEP team include an occupational therapist, a physical therapist, a speech therapist, a school psychologist, a school district representative and a special education and general education teacher. Collecting all the data, each person on the team will have to collaborate with one another and share what data they collected and how to go about helping the student succeed. Collaboration is a style that professionals chose to use in order to accomplish a common goal. Professional collaboration is a huge component in education and even bigger component in constructing an