ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces interprofessional collaboration as a critical strategy for enabling multiple professionals with differing views and perceptions to meaningfully work together. The quality social interactions between educational professionals are of increasing importance in creating effective schools. When considering teachers own practice in relation to other professionals it is useful to be aware of and plan for barriers and facilitators to interprofessional collaboration. Planning ahead of time for how barriers can be minimised and facilitators maximised can help ensure success. A compelling reason for engaging in interprofessional collaboration and responding to the views and opinions of other practitioners is that school staff must work in an increasingly complex education system with challenging issues. Teacher voice is integral to positive teacher-to-teacher relationships, which in turn mediate a range of positive educational outcomes. Self-coaching offers a self-directed resource for developing teachers' and educational professionals' assertiveness when it comes to sharing their own views and perceptions.
