As we celebrate World Teachers' Day on Sunday 5 October, I wanted to explore this year’s theme of ‘Collaboration for Quality Teaching.” 

Collaboration has been at the very heart of my entire approach to teaching. I think the very nature of the disciplines of Philosophy and Theology lend themselves naturally to collaboration as nobody actually knows what the right answer is! I came into teaching following a career in business and I was incredibly grateful for the support of a wonderfully collaborative Religious Studies Department at the Royal Grammar School in Guildford. We would regularly observe each other’s lessons and in the discussions that followed (often in a local hostelry!) the exchange of ideas and practice would add value to what we were doing. 

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