Collaborativeness

Collaborativeness, especially between departments in a school really benefits the students. There were many times while I was in high school that teachers would all assign huge projects or papers that would all be due around the same time (also conveniently around the time of choir or band concerts). Yes, it would be hard for teachers to coordinate perfectly with every other teacher in the building, but teachers' classes that are catered towards juniors should collaborate with each other, and same with the other grades. If that's not a possibility, then teachers should at least be tolerant and understanding about deadlines. If a student has multiple projects all due in one week, they should be able to work with teachers about due dates.

As a future choir teacher, working with other departments will be a big part of my job, because of organizing extra rehearsals before concerts, or pulling students out of classes for tours or out of school performances.

Being able to compromise with other teachers and departments will keep that stress off of the students. There were times in school where I had to satisfy the requirements of two different teachers, even though they didn't coincide with each other very easily. This put me under a lot of stress and I didn't put as much effort as I could have into either project. I think students would put a greater effort into their school work if they knew teachers could be flexible about due dates, or if they were understanding about things like choir, band, orchestra, sports or other extra-curricular events (that they participate in, not just spectate at) that might be important to the students.