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Cooperative learning is useful for students. Students are very different or difficulties may arise if they have a problem with comunication.These difficulties provide positive interaction for students the solution of problems is easily achieved by bringing groups together carefully.

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PROBLEMS MAY ARİSE DUE TO İNTERNET CONNECTİON

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ALEYNA/DÜZCE
PROBLEMS MAY ARİSE DUE TO İNTERNET CONNECTİON

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Collaborative learning is realy useful and it gives so many benefits to students . The problem is in choosing the proper groups of students, who will know how to distribute the tasks among themselves. "Weaker" students tend to avoid participating in the tasks and they leave all the work to "stronger" students. The solution could be in experimenting with the groups, until we put the right studente work together.

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Problems may arise due to internet connection.

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technological problems

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technological problems

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I personally think that Collaborative learning is so important for students but it can be a very dramatic method if there are no rules inside the class and students are very talkative

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CL is a very functional approach, but the result is very deeply connected with the quality of the group work, if some components do not contribute or are not agreeable, the workload can prove quite a bit to manage, but having a working phase to design roles and tasks could help.

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Inequal work...the solution could be autoevaluation during the learning process and peer evaluation as well.

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CL term is a new word for Europe. In my country, this concept has been used for centuries, thus it is not difficult to adapt.

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CL is very useful. ut it is very important to encourage the students and make a group.

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Have been using CL in the class room with my colleague Ms. Halavaara fot last deacade and more the biggest difficulty is always the timetable the school can give us to make this scenario to realize in its full potential. Only in courses which are optional for the students and where we can rely on they previous competencies, it is possible.

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Collaborative learning has many benefits for students. Difficulties can show up if the pupils are too much different or they have a problem in comunication. Also problem can be in level of inclusion of every student in project and in collaborative work. The solution of problems can be in carefully putting together the groups or in putting the exact rules of the group.

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Yes, some difficulties might arise. Problems of network connection, different levels of knowledge in the use of new technologies, lack of time in class, lack of computers. Therefore, complement the Europeana materials and use them together with other materials and other simple techniques to enhance group creativity, such as brainstorming with cards and post-it. Or explain the contents learned in a group by performing a play.

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There are more benefits than difficulties of Collaborative learning.
To make the groups I think that we should give them roles to organiza the work and even, if they are in Primary Education it would be a help for them.
To assess Collaborative Learning I would use rubrics.

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One of the difficulties could be placing disturbing students in a group. The solution to this problem will be to apply Zone of proximal development of Vygotsky. In this way, the most skillful and self-regulated students may support the less one.

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The benefits of collaborative learning are great for the development of 21st century student competencies. The problem is in assessing each student.

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it is beneficial for the students to apply the methods of peer assessment, which I think will be beneficial for them.

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I can use collaborative works of the students

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I often develop projects in small groups, even though we do not have computers at school. Teachers are taught by traditional teaching and often the leaders do not allow us to get out of the strict rules of instruction.
Pupils are more creative when they work on different themes of projects.

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Grouping students with regular planning, organizing preliminary studies, optimizing input - product process

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Maybe it seems difficult to younger students. Small groups may be a solution.

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In order of assess the collaborative work of the students, I think that sharing with them rubrics it is a good way to do it.

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the advantages of collaborative learning are many, I as a teacher had only one problem: that of transforming an evaluation made through a column into decimal grades

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There are great benefits of Collaborative Learning in teaching, especially in project teaching. The biggest problem in organizing such classes is the high quality of inclusion of students with learning difficulties and lack of computer equipment. Disabled students need more time, better preparation, and help with task execution. Teacher of such teaching presents a challenge.

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Collaborative learning is a very fruitful way to teach and learn but it is sometimes difficult to carry out in the first years of Primary Education.

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It is difficult to find right portion of collaboration - students have different level of knowledge, different skills, different personalities - and teacher should prepare scenario where every student can use that potential in order to help as much as he/she can. It is difficult to set that kind of scenario.

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I think collaborative Learning is a great tool to use in class. But, with small children it has to be very guided, for you have to ensure that they really collaborate, and not that one does all the work and let the others do nothing.
For this you have to give them tasks personally.

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I love CL'yi. I think that these studies are fruitful in the downsides and downs.

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I always use collaborative learning with my pupils in order to achieve tasks quickly and make sure that they assimilate different contents. As well as some pupils need to do the tasks in group. I love the contests where they really work in group in order to gain points.

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I often use collaborative learning and the difficulties that may arise are:
- not every members in a group collaborate
- responsibility is not equally shared
- one or two students may prevaricate
- lack of communication
- difficulty organising work and finishing on time.
Peer assessment and self-assessment activities to make the students reflect on what they are on they are not doing may be useful.

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Collaborative learning in the class is very useful and has a lot of advantages. However, from the beginning, one big problem is organizing and selecting the groups.

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I use collaborative learning and problem-solving method regularly in my class. Team management and timeline of project is the main difficulty, it demands a lot of time.

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Collaborative Learning is the classroom has so many advantages. One of the difficulties that might arise is uneven participation due to introverts, shy students, overly ambitious students, dominant students...

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I know the benefits of Collaborative Learning (CL) in the classroom. A critical issue of CL is the individual assessment of students. To solve this critical issue, I consider the development of individual products incardinated in the group project, so as to recognize the individual contribution of each student.

I also consider carefully the self-assessment (generally I find a great honesty in the self-assessment of my students) and peer evaluation

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I have just finished CL in three of my classes, with different outcomes. Some groups (3 - 4 students in each group) worked very well. Those that did not work well had problems with different levels of ambitions, students absent different lessons, some students are mainly introverts and prefer to work on their own. I had to spend some time explaining that students and humans are different, and that we have to learn to do assignments together with people different from ourselves. That's also valuable knowledge for teens.

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I think that students like working in teams and collaborating. Their favourite activity is to present their work to their classmates. Problems such as the organization of the group, can be overcome by allowing students to choose and create their working groups or individually(some of them) if they they want to, at their pace.

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I like CL and think it has many more pros then cons. Difficulties that might arise are that group is not coherent, and if not supervised many students take time off.

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1. not all student do the same amount of work
2. some students do not like the group assignments
3. they still don't have well defined organization skills (primary school) so they tend to lose much time

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I have used both collaborative-learning and active-learning techniques s and have encountered a number of significant problems, including the following: 1) many students strongly prefer to work alone and actively dislike dealing with the problems created by having to work in groups; 2)  some students are simply irresponsible, fail to do their share of the assigned work, and leave the rest of the group to deal with the irresponsibility; 3) groups tend to have dominant members who often do the work, monopolize the group discussion, and carry less assertive members along with them; 4) superior students often resent having to carry weak or lazy students and worry that their grades will be lowered by having to work with such students;

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I believe that the main problem in collaborative learning is that all students may not work as there are always the ones who evade contribution and the others who undertake many roles. The solution is all group members to have a role and possibly decide on a collaboration netiquette from the very beginning. Needless to say teachers should check whether this netiquette is respected and all group members work on their part.

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Problems: non-cooperative students, group formation, conflicts.
Solutions: carefully planning ahead, assigning roles, give clear explanations

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Ive used the group activity where the students with the strongest verbal skills or personalities end up taking over the conversation, crowding the rest of the students out. Teaching your students how to have meaningful conversations by introducing the rules of collaborative conversation and giving them specific language to articulate their ideas is a valuable investment.

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Some difficulties that might arise whie using CL are:
-Problems with group formation, omogenity and managing conflicts that might arise
-Problems with time management
-Problems with students that want to work alone

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I practice practicing project teaching with students. I respect peer learning, I nourish critical thinking. Lately, I've included parents in projects.

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In order to be effective, collaborative learning must be carefully planned. In particular :

we have to pay attention to the groups formation :  eterogeneus groups are better for the general economy of the whole work;

we must assign a role to each member of the group, so that everyone is responsible for his/her part;

for the younger students, we  must scaffold and monitor their work.

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Working in groups could be hard especially if you propose to pupils to choose with who they are going to work with.Most of the time they choose friends because it is easier to interact with.
I propose to them other collaboration which could be more balance.

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Roberta, Italy          My students usually like CL especially if done in small groups; however, some problems may arise occasionally, due to the fact that weaker students tend to rely on more confident students and relax, unless they are constantly urged to participate.  Also, time is always an issue at school, of course:  as an English teacher I only have 3 hours a week available (and large classes), so I am often forced to ask my students to do part of the work at home, using technology to keep in touch and carry on with their work (eg shared documents, whatsapp groups etc).  Finally, some students find it really difficult to plan their work, so they require constant feedback or guidance from the teacher, but I guess this is part of the ‘game’:  learning to become more independent.

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Roberta, Italy          My students usually like CL especially if done in small groups; however, some problems may arise occasionally, due to the fact that weaker students tend to rely on more confident students and relax, unless they are constantly urged to participate.  Also, time is always an issue at school, of course:  as an English teacher I only have 3 hours a week available (and large classes), so I am often forced to ask my students to do part of the work at home, using technology to keep in touch and carry on with their work (eg shared documents, whatsapp groups etc).  Finally, some students find it really difficult to plan their work, so they require constant feedback or guidance from the teacher, but I guess this is part of the ‘game’:  learning to become more independent.

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I use collaborative learning and problem-solving method regularly in my class. Time management is the main difficulty, it demands a lot of time.

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You are now familiar with the advantages of Collaborative Learning (CL) in the classroom. Can you think of any difficulties that might arise while using this method? Please also share your solutions to the problems in this Padle

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When talking about CL it is important to be prepared for difficulties regarding the interaction in the group: different personalities of students that do not work well together, also too many ideas and lack of structure and strategies to get to a final form of the project.

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I have implemented CL activities during CLIL modules, mainly. Actually, I have done something similar to Jean-Christophe's project this year (political cartoons and the Wall Street Crash)! My students are above 18 (5th grade) so they managed to design their roles themselves and carry on the activities with me just supervising.

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I think that CL is an excellent methodology for students. They deal with different parthers and have to discuss with arguments their ideas and opinions.
I think that a good idea is the teacher designs roles for each member of the group in order to  get each pupil can carry out his own learningship.
On the contrary, some students could be apart from the work.

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Collaborative learning obviously has many advantages, even if the teacher needs to be very careful when using this method to form balanced groups. He does not have to let the students be passive or do something else. All students have to contribute in order to learn something useful and to progress

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If you are not careful about group formation, you may be students outside the group. Certain criteria can be set when creating groups. In each study, if the groups in which the different students come together are created, the students become social.

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Particularly with younger, primary-aged children, CL can be difficult to implement at first. In an educational system which is quite competitive, it can be difficult to make students understand the benefits of CL. Personally, despite the problems which sometimes arise when trying to implement CL in the classroom when I will then be obliged to give individual assessment of my pupils each term, I believe the benefits outweigh these problems.
It is, of course, important to group pupils together so as to give each member of a team or group an important role and an equal opportunity for participation.

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Learning using collaborative learning is the way forward in education. Nowadays, even jobs require that people collaborate together to come up with innovative and interactive products. One drawback that I usually encounter with CL is making sure that everybody gives his utmost during the collaborative time. At times children need to be directed into this or modelled how collaborative learning is held. A good solution I found was to appoint a person from each group in charge to delegate and list down the different roles that each student will take part in - like that there will be more control as to who did what and that everybody participated

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There's no doubt collaborative learning is an essential skill in current education systems, formal or informal. Using it I often face difficulties as it is a way of learning that must be taught. So for example my students often say - 'I did most of the work, other haven't made much input' etc.. I think it is essential to assign each student with a task in a group so everyone is responsible for something, and they must know they are responsible not only for themselves as individauls but also for the group.

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When talking about CL it is important to be prepared for difficulties regarding the interaction in the group: different personalities of students that do not work well together, also too many ideas and lack of structure and strategies to get to a final form of the project.

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CL is a good way of teaching and learning, but of course it wasn't easy, it must be well structured, and I still don't know its using in crowded classes, for example in my 50 students' classes.

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I think that collaborative learning could be very productive but roles inside groups should be clear since the beginning.
Teachers should choose carefully pupils for each group, trying to balance them according to their talents and/ or limits.
Regarding roles inside groups teacher should give a responsability to each student, in order to involve all of them actively; one should report researches, one should handle materials/documents, one should present results; these roles of course will turn for each project in order to experience all of them.
Working in team and sharing ideas is part of learning and it should be definetely more practised at school in order to develop team working and communication skills.

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The assessement is challenging when we use CL in the classroom.
Student group work can result in the production of wikis, reports of case studies, in-class or video presentations, posters etc.

Some ways to provide feedback on group productivity throughout the process as well as on the group product are:

Evaluate students on both their contributions to group processes as well as the final product.

Create a detailed explanation of what your expectations are.

Provide scores for individuals as well as groups.

Use rubrics. Consider asking students for feedback and including some of their ideas to the rubric.

Incorporate peer and self-assessment at various milestones to check in on the assignment progress as well as the group dynamics.

Communicate clearly to students at the beginning how you will calculate their grades.

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CL is important in delivering effectively the educational goals. Collaborative learning strategies, which require relatively small classes or groups actively mentored by an instructor, are necessary in order for World Wide Web-based courses to be as effective as traditional classroom courses (Hiltz, 1998).

The curriculum in each subject is enormous; it is hard to cover all the teaching goals in such a short time. Reduction of subjects in curriculum is essential.

The chemistry of the students forming the group is important, therefore the teacher must know well all the students and form groups with good chemistry, so they can communicate, interact and produce better results.

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Collaborative learning is at the base of all my instructional startegies. To develop a structured and a usual collaborative learning you should also work daily on Social and emotional competencies, otherwise you might esperience problems about time, noise, rules respect, efficacy. You can't start CL without having already start a SEL classroom path

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I use collaborative work in my teaching.The students learn from each other. But sometimes some difficulties may arise related to the groups the students work in. Some students can't work in large groups. They want to work in a small group or alone. If some of the students are unwilling to work the others have to work more. That's a problem too. Another thing if the collaborative working group is large, there may be too much noise inb the classroom. If we form the working groups well we can solve these problems and our students have fun with the activites.

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I do not really use any large group work as kids tend not to be so confident when they have to speak a foreign language in front of others. However, I make them work by pairs which I carefully selected in order to make them want to work and improve together, thanks to the use of both positive and constructive feedback, with always a massive input on the positivity.

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I teach Italian and I have tried to realize the Collaborative Learning in my classroom. In fact the students have worked together in small groups on a specific activity, in order to improve their learning. They have tried to work as a team, developing their skills. Moreover they have defined the goals to achieve and the students have been enngaged in different activities in order to improve their learning. However they have not been able to be responsible for their peers'work and sometimes only some students do most of the work in the group.

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Some pupils don't like to work in groups, lack of technology... a teacher can always make copys, many students have their own smartphones wich could be used... Students can work sometimes also alone, but they have to do the whole product with the team... My students are used to work in team, so I have there no problems...Many teachers in our school do this method

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I work with primary scool pupils so problems that may arise at the first are collaborative difficulties, acceptance of the other's opinion. These issue are gradually being resolved. when working in a team, often the results are better, but it does happen that not all students get involved as much.

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The difficulties are related to the lack of technological equipment in the classroom that prevents a more complete research and investigation. The greatest difficulty is the fact that in my school we are only two teachers to work with this method and this involves a difficulty on the part of the students because they are not accustomed and live the hour of activity more as a game than a serious commitment.

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The difficulties of cooperative learning partly depend on the lack of adequate technologies in the classroom. The greatest difficulty is the fact that only a few teachers use this method and therefore the students are not used to working collaboratively.

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In order for the method to be successful, I think my students should be introduced to CL activities gradually. One way to do that is to start with simpler topics before giving them more advanced material. This way, we can avoid wasting time: for students, it's only relevant to introduce them with the assignments and not the procedure.

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In my field, Business Administration in a VET school, we are always using collaborative learning because we should imitate the world of work. One of the main problem is lack of collaboration of some student. It could be a good solution peer assessment in order to evaluate them. You will be surprised by the marks given by their own colleagues to the less collaborative members.

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Collaborative Learning has lots of advantages. However, students must be familiar with that from the early years. In my school (primary) we are beginning to introduce it in our daily practice.

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TO make the collaborative work easy it is very important to remind the students that ultimately the teacher is the leader of the class. Once that is made clear collaborative learning is the best way to develop the students interest and creativity in the subject. They gain confidence as they acquire knowledge through exchange of ideas, because of team work they can also learn how to handle their team members in a professional manner and thus it helps in developing personal relationships too.

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The use of this method requires primarily working conditions (internet, computer, teaching tools ...) and well organized. Collaborative learning is most interesting for students, they explore, develop their creativity, they are solidarity, they cooperate with each other. In addition to acquiring knowledge, they acquire skills. The knowledge and skills acquired through this method are durable.

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I often teach with the collaborative learning method. I think that this methos is really good because students work together, by developping their social skills. In this method students interact each other and share their personal experience in order to fulfill their task. In addition to these positive aspects, I think that this method has also any difficulties. For example shy students cut themselves off from the other and have a passive attitude towards the task. In this way the teacher play an important role because the teacher knows in advance his students and could create more balanced group. I uselly give to my shy stuydents an important role. For example they become the group representative. In this way they can overcome their shyness

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I ussually works with Collaborative .The difficulty  that arise is because some of the student didn´t colaborate the enough , so the other students don' t want  they in their group. So I pay special attention to the personal work on each group and at any time they can tell me if a student is not collaborating enough.

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Collaborative learning is a great way to improve individual learning, through the added value of collaboration. Since the class is a small community, group work allows the development of interpersonal intelligence, namely the ability to relate and get along with others, being able to understand their emotions and motivations, to be able to answer them in appropriate way and put yourself in their shoes. Emphasizing the group means, finally, giving the possibility of integration to all the students, allowing the recovery of those problematic and not very motivated. The success or failure of this experience also depends on the methodology used and the organization of the structure in which the group works. In my opinion, there are two principal problems: time and class management. It is not always easy to have the boys work together, but we must insist for the undoubted advantages that the Collaborative learning offers.

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I think the most difficult thing in collaborative learning is the organization of the groups. Some students can 't manage to play their sole and they are not able to share and exchange ideas with their school mates. I think that the assessment is really difficult too

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I think the main problem is how to organize the groups and the work to do, in order to be effective.
working in groups is great but the coordination must be so sotrong, otherwise it is a lot of information without any structure

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I think collaborative learning is the best method to develop social competences and it must be related to learning-by-doing. So students have to face real world tasks. I usually use this approach in my teaching  and my students love learning this way. I think the problem is in organizing time and activities. My students complain because some of them do not want to collaborate, they are not used to.

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Georgia, Cyprus Collaborative learning is very good.  Students have to work together, helping each other out to learn.  The students have to have their own role on the project , so that their grade will not depend only on teamwork, but they also have to aid the weaker ones to have a better team grade. The teachers must explain the rules and assign the role to each student from the beginning, so there is no confusion.

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Georgia, Cyprus Collaborative learning is very good.  Students have to work together, helping each other out to learn.  The students have to have their own role on the project , so that their grade will not depend only on teamwork, but they also have to aid the weaker ones to have a better team grade. The teachers must explain the rules and assign the role to each student from the beginning, so there is no confusion.

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Collaborative learning is a good way in a peer-learning where students can learn from eachother. I sometimes find it negative when only "strong students" speak and lead the group.

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I also like collaborative learning and work group. There is more  active learning this way although some students are too shy or a bit lazy and hide among others who stand out and lead the groups.
It is good to have group work, pair work and individual work to please everybody and find variety.

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When the students are used to working with Collaborative Learning, this methodologic approach produces excellent learning outcome. Sometimes difficulties arise during using this method:
Firstly, some students are very shy and they don't want to express their opinion. Secondly, others are not interesting working in groups towards a common goal. A teacher could specify the task of every student into the group and then evaluate the whole work.

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I like collaborative learning because it helps to engage children , but the problem is when there are different levels of interest and of knwoledge. The solutio is to give diffenrent roles to each member of the  considering their capacities an interest. That way you could improve the quality of work and help every student to get involved .

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I am very familiar with the  Collaborative Learning (CL) in the classroom. For me the main difficulty is keeping the right tempo of students activities. They mustn't cross the frame of working-time and be constructive. Sometime it is difficult. Solution is a good plan of activity and keeping a strong attention by teacher.

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I often use CL with my students of the first class of Liceo Scientifico, as this method gives them the possibility to express themselves without any fear to be evaluated individually. But I think that it is the main teacher's task to create well balanced group so that each students - expecially at the beginning - can be monitored and can work at his own pace

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Erika, Italy
Working with small groups of children, I often use this method. Considering the disadvantages, I noted that, usually, in every group, there is someone (a few students?) who is (are?) more active than others (less involved in the proposed activities).
To avoid this problem, before creating the groups, I tend to assign specific roles to every member of the group: every member has a specific task to carry out.
I am also aware of the fact that in every group there is always someone who tends to be the leader and to be the person who establishes the standards of the proposed works, judging their acceptability. 
In general, these students are the students who have the best results in the classroom, who are the most responsible and meticulous. Even though these features are generally regarded as very important qualities, in a small group of students, they can become elements that limit the others’ actions, expression and creativity or, even, elements that generate unrest and conflicts . 
In my opinion, the teacher is the only person who can mediate between different needs, between the value of the efficiency and the value of all the students’ free expression, which might imply imperfection, mistakes.
Another problem concerns the assessment of a group work. It seems difficult and partial. 
Having created the groups, the teacher should present to his/ her students which criteria (at least three criteria) he/she intends to use in order to assess the final product.
The teacher should consider/ evaluate the tasks carried out (individually) by every component of the group (different tasks, different roles) and then consider/evaluate the whole work, seen as an outcome of the collaboration between different students. The final mark shoud take both aspects into account.

Lindita Lohja
Lindita Lohja
It is a productive form when we set groups of students to work together and I belive that is more easy becaus the work is divided and not hard.
Esada Čirić-Delić, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Esada Čirić-Delić, Bosnia and Herzegovina 
CL is great but in order to have a successful outcome teachers first have to develop CL mind-set. Working in groups is difficult so the group management is crucial as well as clear ideas, responsibilities and outcomes. This requires teacher delicate monitoring of group activities. 
Adelina, Poland
Adelina, Poland 
Using Collaborative Learning (CL) is involving and amaizing for students but it isn't the only one method that is used during the lessons. We have to focus on developing many different skills so we don't have enough time to work with this method so often. What's more we have to realize the curriculum but the rsults of using CL are fantastic.
 
Maria Antónia Brandão, PT
Maria Antónia Brandão, PT
As in all the methods  i think of some difficulties that might arise while using  Collaborative Learning (CL) in the classroom. Not all the students like to work in group, sometimes we have to develop colaborative skills before use CL. It can also take more time to make the approach to some subjects, beside that in classe we can have more noise because students must talk to each others . If we accept that its an excelent methodology.
Bellow an example of a task that allows to develop Collaborative work marshmallow challenge

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There are challenges associated with collaborative learning environments, specifically with creating and embracing a new environment and the methodology for learning/instruction. Challenges aside, arming the students with resources and skills to remain productive outside the classroom is the keystone of education. Collaborative learning has proven to encourage the improvement and maturation of a variety of skills necessary for future success in the work place. Supporting this progress helps to ensure that today’s students will be productive, effective and influential members of the future workforce.

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Collaborative learning is an excellent learning approach, especially when the students in a class are used to working with this method. They can work together in a group and produce outcomes of high quality and standards. The collaborative method is perfect for big groups of students, which in my case is not applicable because i am currently at a small school with a small group of students where each student works individually most of the time. The major difficulty is in my opinion to train students and teach them how to work productively in a collaborative learning activity

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I think one difficulty is to have a well balanced team, so all of the team members work and engage, but also enrich each other with their abilities. I think that one way to overcome this difficulty is to develop very carefully the activity, but also to mix every now and then the members so they can work with almos every classmates so they can learn to really collaborate.

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The sheer amount of resource on Europeana could be overwhelming if clear enough criteria and guidance isn't given. So teachers must make sure to research the resource properly before implementing a classroom activity.

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I find the method excellent, yet it requires perfect manager - a teacher with the knowledge in the field and the group of eager students that are interested in the topic and are willing to cooperate and to be a contribution for the rest of the group. Last but not the least everything must be very well planned from the beginning to the final outcomes of the classwork.

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Students with low confidence may have difficulty in belonging to the group. This may lead to the inability to obtain the desired efficiency from the Collaborative Learning (CL) method.Group work should be motivated and supported.

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CL is an operative method that I have adopted often with important advantages for the development of the interaction between students and their ability to think. I often have come across difficulties about the criteria to form the groups and to establish assign their duties. Once I overcome these difficulties , the groups have reached good results.