My plan was to visit more classes within Sommerville as well as other special schools. I wanted to collect more data on how Special schools can work more collaboratively. Lockdown has placed many restrictions on me being able to do this. I was able to collect some data via survey from other special schools. The ideal would have been to visit and have conversations with staff. Here is some data that I collected from the Auckland wide region. This is interesting when I compared that to the data I collected from Sommerville, it looks very different, but there could be many contributing factors to this.
What I did find, which was expected, was that staff at all Special schools experienced the same barriers to collaboration which was summarised as:
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- Time
- Travel
- Transport
- Traffic
- Timetable
- Trust
Due to these barriers, teachers were not able to meet as regularly as they wanted. But from the survey, the staff has happy to share ideas at the staff meeting, pathway and special interests groups.
