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Mod. 4.4: How can teacher collaboration facilitate collaborative learning?

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Mod. 4.4: How can teacher collaboration facilitate collaborative learning?

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I completely agree that it's very precious and really useful to collaborate with other teachers.
It's important to develop a collaborative school culture between teachers, students and wider comunity. Unfortunately not all teachers believe that collaboration is so useful; it begins with opening minds, sharing thoughts, ideas, materials and also learning from each other.

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Mod 4: How can teacher collaboration facilitate collaborative learning?

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Mod 4: How can teacher collaboration facilitate collaborative learning?

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- Appreciate the benefits of teacher collaboration and how best to take advantage of them, as well as the challenges, and tips and tools for overcoming them.
- Understand the required skills needed by teachers for effective collaboration, as well as the conditions needed at school level for teacher collaboration to flourish.
- Understand how technology can facilitate teacher collaboration.
- Finalize the development of one or more lesson plans integrating collaborative learning and assessment, as well as elements of teacher collaboration, using the Learning Designer.
- Peer review the collaborative learning lesson plans of two course participants.

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Mod. 3: How to assess collaborative learning

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Mod. 3: How to assess collaborative learning

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The first step of an authentic assessment is the choice of assessment model according to the project or task to which it applies, which could include:
- the individual and collective learning outcomes;
- teamwork and group goals including individual commitment;
- the methodological process adopted to implement and complete the project or task;
The emphasis should be put on assessing what leads to the development of team work skills and the results or knowledge achieved by the group, much more than evaluating individual successes.
This process can be simplified using valuable tools, rubrics and checklist: these instruments should be brief, clear and useful to teachers' work and they should allow students to be engaged in their design.

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When students work alone the level of cooperation is minimal (lev.1), in fact, working together, in small groups, it is the first step to raise that level (lev. 2); it is also necessary to use collaborative strategies, how to share responsibilities (Lev. 3) and make important decisions (Lev. 4). Finally the maximum collaboration is achieved by working so interdependent (Lev. 5).

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Low level of collaboration
During a sciences activity:
- reading the unit;
- repeating the arguments;
- underling key words
- completing exercises on their own book;
This is a traditional lesson where each pupil works alone, while the collaborative method requires teamwork.
High level of collaboration
During a sciences activity:
- being seated at circular tables;
- working in small groups;
- producing arguments;
- sharing ideas;
- looking for help and contributions from the other groups;
- using Google Drive for creating and sharing documents.

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Devis Pieri: the collaborative learning is very important in the school: it helps the students a lot. They learn the respect, the sharing and the mutual aid too. It's a difficult work, but each teacher can obtain excellent results... Good luck!

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Hi everybody! I'am a teacher of maths and sciences in a secondary school: I love my job. I live in a small village named Istia d'Ombrone, near Grosseto