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The McRel Technology Initiative Report was the most interesting piece of literature for me this week ... it reinforces a lot of the same things that I have already used with a great deal of success in my classroom: not the least of which is peer mentoring, collaborative planning, etc. If students teach or show another student how to do a task, then the actual learning seems to be stronger and easier for students to retain. By the same token, not only is the learner enriched, but so is the student/peer who is actually doing the teaching. If we could get half of a building's staff and/or faculty to buy into this concept their would be dramatic increases in learning.

Another interesting situation occurred in video #6, __Team Teaching: Two Teachers, Three Subjects, One Project.__ One of the important aspects of collaborating with other teachers and teaching across the curriculum, is the daily planning and time management that these teachers put forth. The meetings that these two teachers made on a daily basis before school is very similar to what coaching staffs do on a daily and weekly basis in order to make sure the team and program is prepared for practice and the week's activities. This is just as important in the success of the daily lesson for the many students that enter our classroom doors each day.