This was the first time I worked within a group on an academic level; throughout my degree my grades had always depended on my own work and personal efforts, but now for the first time my grades also depended on the work and efforts of others. This was a little worrying at first because I wasn't sure how my group and I would work collaboratively and how we would be able to create a cohesive module design. Since I had also started to build good relationships with my group members over the last four months, I was afraid that the collaborative project might have a negative impact on this, if a conflict arose. Thankfully this did not become a problem and working collaboratively proved to be more beneficial than I had anticipated. I was aware of the collaborative project from the beginning, but was unsure of its structure or relevance until we talked about it in our pre-teaching practice workshop (hereafter TP). I found this workshop extremely useful as many of our questions and doubts were clarified and it also allowed us to start working collaboratively right away. We started by brainstorming themes for the module and by the end of the workshop we all agreed on genealogy as the chosen theme and decided to research different aspects during the TP. Upon returning to college after TP we discussed the feedback and advice we had received from TY teachers in our TP schools and began to discuss the module we wanted to design in more detail. After reviewing the brief, we decided to narrow it down into sections and assign each their own section in order to start the project. This worked well for us as we could all complete our individual section at a time that suited us, rather than at a time that suited each member. I... middle of paper... informed me in many ways. I learned a lot by working with my team members, they helped me gain a greater understanding of the project and without each of their involvement I don't think we would have achieved such a satisfying end result. I also learned what might work for me, might not always work for others, and I might need to establish new methods to make the collaboration successful. The main thing I've learned is that strong communication is the key to collaborative success and, when done correctly, can lead to sharing the workload and getting more resources. Now I know that working collaboratively will not always be easy, but the recognition and reward gained at the end makes the whole process worthwhile and I look forward to working collaboratively in the future, with students and fellow teachers.