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Lesson plan review by Barbara Beltramini 23-11-2016 

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Lesson plan review by Barbara Beltramini 23-11-2016 

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Dear Anna,I really liked your lesson plan, especially in the way you balanced all the activities and encouraged collaborative learning, There are also well done assessment grids, which allow you to check your students'feedback!Well done!Barbara Beltramini

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Lesson plan Review made By Nuno Simões  22-11-2016 

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Lesson plan Review made By Nuno Simões  22-11-2016 

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Dear Anna.

In my opinion, you have done a great job. Probably you normaly likes to work together with yout partners at school.

In this activity the group work proposed by you will get good results, because the students are completely envolved in their works. They can use the multimedia lab to produce a video (they normaly enjoy it). The presentation skills will also be improved.

The conection with a teacher of religion it is also a goal!

Your rubrics are very well and I think the students will enjoy and learn with this activity.

Congrats

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Q4. 1 Q&A Session with Prof. Deirdre Butler!

Thank's for this opportunity. We would ask if is possible to have ( for students 14-19 years): 1. a Rubric (example) for self-assessment 2. a rubric (example) for peer-assessment 3. a rubric (example) for group assessment. Thank's for your availability. Q 4.2 A How can teacher collaboration facilitate collaborative learning? Thanks Valentina for your experience! We share the importance of collaborating beetween teachers for our professional Growing and also to support us. It's true! It's difficult to collaborate with the collegues..but we Started to exchange experiences, to share difficulties and new teaching practices ...also sharing the CO-LAB experience. q 4.3 An experience of teacher collaboration Digital tools and social networks help a lot in the collaboration and sharing innovative experiences. I used Edmodo platform to realize an activity in collaboration with a colleague from my school. But we must do more to improve collaboration among teachers! Q 4.4 The benefits and challenges of teacher collaboration It's very interesting to collaborate between teachers because it helps to collaborate beetween pupils. But unfortunately there is still a lot to do....we need a cultural change as well as digital tools available in our school! Q 4.5 Skills and conditions needed for teacher collaboration We totally agree with training teacher. We must change our mindset. Unfortunately, students are not used to work together because teachers work individually and so don't have a collaborative model. My colleague Maria and I are trying to work collaboratively also in CO-LAB. 4.6 How technology can facilitate teacher collaboration In our school we use technologies to sending and displaying but not to collaborate. We use also FB, the school website, e-mails. Thanks to this course we are discovered new collaborative technologies. 4.7 teacher collaboration It's very important collaboration between teachers of different disciplines. Indeed we collaborate (Science and Religion), and we have a mutual, individual and professional enrichment.
4.8  Lesson plan on the Learning Designer

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The teacher explains the assessment criteria and gives the rubrics (attached). Students choose what topic develop and are divided into four groups (one for each topic). The groups of four students share roles between them: 1. the facilitator 2. the speaker, 3. the responsible for the material 4. the mediator.

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Q 3.3

Assessment for improving collaborative learning

"Assessment should encourage students to learn collaboratively and not encourage
competition. It should also contribute to a collective conscience promoting the belief that we learn
better in groups because we can overcome our difficulties more easily when we help one another."

It's very important to explain immediately to the students  the assestment which will be made. In this way we will encourage students and especially we will empower them to work better in groups.
Q3.4 An experience of assessing students’ collaborative learning

Tratto da Anna La Montagna, ItalyI like this video, Its a very innovative assessment method!
The questions she asked her pupils help to a good self-assessment.
I think careful observation/investigation of the teamwork

is useful for the assessment  of collaborative learning.
Q 3.5 Another experience of assessing collaborative learning
"Prior to the implementation of the project, we developed a checklist with several
rubrics for assessing students about these items of our project: creativity, autonomy,
cooperation, quality of work and presentation of the project. These items were
presented to students at the beginning of the project."
Antonio, compliments for your video. Very intersting!
We share the Seven benefits associated with assessing cooperative learning but it's not easy especially when you are alone to work in this way.In the 21st century school digital tools are
indispensable to a good learning of students and for effective assessment.Through this course we would like to improve the way we teach and assess.
Q 3.6 Collaborative learning and student peer reviews
"My questions to our experts and my peers on the course are the following:
Students as well as their parents usually take summative assessment more seriously than
formative assessment. How can we teachers persuade students that assessing for learning can
be more relevant than assessment of learning? How can we plan assessment for learning as an
ongoing process without stopping the spontaneous flowing of ideas and creativity while
students are collaborating?"
Dear Anna you're a wonderful teacher.
We fully agree on the importance of renewing of teaching and assessing which aims an educational learning and a formative assessment. Our biggest difficulty is to haven't digital tools in the classroom...so our work with students is very very limited!
Q 3.7 What to assess and how?
"This rubric features criteria for assessment, including the
performance of various team member roles such as the team leader, the team organizer, the team
reporter and the team researcher. It also includes quality descriptors for each criteria according to a
4-point scale."
The rubrics and checklists are not part of our teaching and assessment. Unfortunately in our school it's used only summative assessment. But  the examples given in the Co-Lab Assessment guidelines will help us to renew our  methods..and we will use it as soon in possible.
Q 3.8  Luis Valente: Answers on assessing collaborative learning
Diagnostic assessment : use a rubric covering the following four dimensions: - factual (facts, events), - conceptual (concepts, ideas), - procedural (how to do), - meta-cognitive (explanations).
Very interesting.
We belive that self and peer assessment  helps students to be leaders  and responsible of their Knowledge. In our collaborative learning experience and self- peer assestment we have seen that the less motivated students were able to express themselves with greater creativity and objectivity. We agree   to assigning a percentage weight to individual assessment as part of the summative assessment related to collaborative work.

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Loughborough University and University of Hull

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The Blackboard Self and Peer Assessment tool allows instructors to turn their students into peer reviewers. This video contains some basic information about the tool and how to implement it. Created by Glen Jackson (Learning Transformations Unit)

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Q2.2 How we embedding collaborative learning into lesson design?

I agree on  a shared languages between teachers. The thecnologies help to implement a cooperative learning model. Unfortunately in my school there are many problems:
1. Change of mentality of teaching by many teachers;
2. Lack of technologies in the classrooms (Tablet, LIM, ..)
3.  Difficulty of working in groups by students because not used by many teachers.
In my opinion we should change the way of doing school . We should work on interdisciplinary projects and not on specific disciplines.
Q 2.3 What do you think of the 4 major questions presented by Professor Deirdre Butler?
The four collaboration questions  are very important for a collaborative learning activity. They help to work togheter; help to shared responsability; help to make substantive decisions and to help to work interdependent. But the way is very long and tiring. In our activity we started gradually with the help of these questions.
Q 2.4 Do you think it is useful the Collaboration Rubric?
Thank you for this suggestion! It's very very important for our teaching activity. It's helps to start a real cooperative learning. We want to improve thanks to this course.
Q 2.5 What do you think of the example scenarios?
The seven steps learning scenario temple: dream- explore-map-make-ask-remake-show
It's very interesting and a ingenious idea for a effective teaching!
Q 2.6 Laerning activity: low and high level
Our low level activity ,according to "Activity Rubric, is CODE 1-2 because the teacher role was very important.
The high level was the activity in groups of four students. They found with mobile the information about the topic. In this activity they make interdipendent decision Code 3-4.
In future activities we will improve.

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Module I What is collaborative learning?

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Module I What is collaborative learning?

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QI.I:What is collaborative learning?
In my opinion collaborative learning is essential to make students protagonist of their knowledge

QI.2 : Is Collaborative learning for  a flexible classroom?
In my school there aren't LIM in class but only blackboard. Sometime  i do some group activities with my tablet and students smarthphone. At the beginning  it is very difficult to conduct the lesson!
QI.3 What are the positive and negative aspects of the project-based learning?
I used "circle time" in my classes just few times. I use to introduce a new unit with brainstorming.  But i think should be a good practise!

QI.4 How do you monitor teamwork?
Evaluate the cooperative learning is not simple!
Usually I do a group evalutation but also an individual one. The group evaluation is used to assess social skills , the individual for specific disciplinary skills.

QI.5 Have you experienced difficulties in collaborating with other Teachers ?
It is not easy to find teachers to collaborate and experiment form of Cooperative Learning.

But I experienced a collaboration with a teacher through Edmodo
QI.6 Have you carried out with your class learning activities with different level of collaboration?
We experimented a collaborative learning of low level of collaboration to create a mind map with our help.
The high level was the activity in groups of four students. They found with mobile the information about the topic. Each student must try with his mobile a specific part of the topic.

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Dear Anna, thank for your greetings... good job to you too! bye bye, maria d.c.

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The school I work ,I.I.S. "Einstein-De Lorenzo", it is quite big and it is in two buildings.
There are about 9,00 students aged 14-19, most of them boys, who attend different courses (surveyous and technician in different fields). I teach in different classrooms, class sizes range from 15 to 25 and there are lessons until seven in the afternoon and also on Saturday morning.
There are 3 computer lab with 20-24 PCs where we can take students upon reservation.
This year will have a  WiFi connectivity!
We have't an interactive whiteboard in the classrooms, for this reason ,I and my students prefer using our own devices.
I bring my laptop and smartphone to school and the students can use their smartphones in class.
When I organize a groupwork (4 students) I move desks to arrange for better layout.

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My name is Anna
I m a natural science teacher in the high school.
I live in Potenza in Southern italy.
I hope this couse will improve my teaching pratices!
I'm keen on technology and I m trying to implement  my teaching practice with innovative ideas.